Operational Manager – PNA-5: Nursing Department at Gauteng Department of Health

  The Department of Health aims to provide quality health services and ensure a caring climate for service users, implement best-practice health care strategies, create a positive work environment for staff, and provide appropriate and top-quality training for health workers. Our vision is to provide high-quality, efficient and accessible healthcare to transform people's lives. Our mission is to create an effective public healthcare system in Gauteng by ensuring we have the right people, skills, system and equipment to provide the care our patients need to live healthy and quality lives.

• Demonstrate an in depth understanding of nursing legislation and related legal and ethical nursing practices and how these impact on Service delivery. Ensure clinical nursing practice by the nursing team (unit) in accordance with the scope of practice and nursing standards as determined by the institution.
• Promote quality of nursing care as directed by the professional scope of practice and standards as determined by the relevant health facility. Ensure that the unit complies with Ideal Hospital Framework standards.
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of HR and financial policies. Demonstrate effective communication with patients and relatives, supervisors, other health professionals and junior colleagues including more complex report writing when required.
• Work as part of the multi-disciplinary team on a supervisory level to ensure good nursing care by the nursing team. Work effectively and amicably at a supervisory level, with people of diverse intellectual, cultural, racial or religious differences. Able to monitor the performance of staff (PMDS).
• Able to manage own work, time and that of junior colleagues to ensure proper nursing service in the unit. Control the provision of required services through staff scheduling and supervision.
• Effective management of risks, adverse events and patient complaints. Ensure that the environment complies with the Health and Safety Act and Infection and Prevention Control Policies. See in-service training as part of the daily duties. Ensure effective and efficient budget control and assets control for the department.
• Demonstrate an understanding of financial policies and practices. Have in-depth knowledge of ordering, storing and control of equipment.
• Ensure that all staff under your care are trained in the use of different equipment to assist staff who might experience problems in operating such machines. Be accountable of all equipment under your care. Demonstrate basic understanding of HR and financial policies and practices.

Interested and qualified? Go to Gauteng Department of Health on jobs.gauteng.gov.za to apply