Nurse Manager Program Lead - IMPAKT

What you'll be doing

The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is ‘exceptional care, healthier lives’. SESLHD is committed to enabling our community to be healthy and well, and to providing the best possible compassionate care when people need it. The Nurse Manager – Program Lead for IMPAKT (Grade 4) works in collaboration with the Director of Nursing and the multidisciplinary team to provide leadership and management of the person-centred KPI APP IMPAKT implementation and evaluation and supporting a Person-Centred Model of Safety and Quality Culture. This is an integrating and strategically linked nurse-led program of work, reaching across all disciplines to provide a common vision, language and structure within which to locate staff practice and service development.

The NM Program Lead for IMPAKT will be responsible, under guidance and direction, to lead the development, application, and evaluation of the app implementation process as part of the broader quality safety culture framework aimed at improving the quality and safety of person-centred practice across the Prince of Wales Hospital. This will include developing facilitation teams to support the introduction of person-centred KPIs app IMPAKT across wards and clinical services.
The Nurse Manager has a professional and operational reporting structure to the DON and is an active member of the Nursing Governance Structure through engagement and participation on Nursing Councils.
The vision for nursing at Prince of Wales Hospital is to transform person-centred care together. Nurses at the Prince of Wales Hospital are committed to working within Practice Development principles. This is enabled through a framework of inclusiveness, active participation and collaboration. Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing.

All workers and new recruits are required to receive 2 doses of a Therapeutic Goods Administration approved or recognised COVID-19 vaccine to commence employment/ engagement or continue to work within a NSW Health service.

A worker and new recruit will be considered compliant if they have a medical contraindication to all available Therapeutic Goods Administration approved or recognised COVID-19 vaccines and provide medical contraindication evidence in line with the policy requirements.

In addition, all Category A workers and new recruits are required to receive one dose of the seasonal influenza vaccine annually to be considered compliant.

Category A workers and new recruits who are non-compliant with seasonal influenza vaccination or have a medical contraindication to influenza or COVID-19 vaccinations must comply with all other infection control risk reduction strategies as directed while working in a Category A position.

• Registered Nurse who holds current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (AHPRA).
• Recognised relevant tertiary qualifications or working towards same and evidence of recent professional development to further enhance leadership and person-centred facilitation knowledge and skills.
• Relevant experience in developing, implementing and evaluating projects / programs in quality, safety and practice development.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate across large stakeholder groups, enhancing engagement and motivation to achieve agreed goals and timelines.
• Demonstrated effective verbal, written and negotiation skills with an aptitude to utilize relevant information technology platforms and ability to provide clear and concise plans and reports.
• Demonstrated ability to identify, evaluate and incorporate where appropriate emerging trends within the profession of nursing.
• Demonstrated commitment to quality initiatives, practice improvement within an evidence-based practice framework and relevant accreditation standards and processes.
• Sound knowledge of current clinical practices, its delivery and models of care and the ability to motivate, inspire and lead staff to achieve service and professional goals.