Assistant Nurse Clinician

The Assistant Nurse Clinician is responsible for providing clinical guidance in the overall nursing home clinical practice and ensuring the delivery of safe and quality care. She also provides guidance in the coordination of care among the interdisciplinary care teams and across care settings for residents with complex care needs. She will be assisting the Senior/Centre Manager to lead a culture of continuous improvement in care quality, productivity and innovation as well as strive for positive residents’ experience.

She contributes to the development of the community nursing policies, standards and evidence-based practices. She assesses outcomes of quality improvement, evidence-based practice and/or research projects. She supports the quality audits within the team. She provides clinical supervision, precepts the junior nurses, and contributes to community nursing training.

Clinical Nursing Practice Management & Operational Excellence

• Assist in developing community nursing guidelines and protocols to guide clinical and professional practices

• Monitor the community nursing team’s practice on resource management and recommend strategies to reduce waste in service delivery, care and treatment

• Ensure the appropriateness and cost-effectiveness of practices, equipment and products used for the clients

• Participate in quality audits, quality improvement and evidence-based projects

• Identify and report potential threats to the practice of ethical and legal principles in community nursing service delivery

• Conduct risk assessment to identify risks and safety hazards of community nursing practice and implement measures to mitigate risks identified

• Execute responsibilities as per emergency protocols in the event of public health threat or emergency

Implementation of Person-Centred Care

• Participate in the development and implementation of a person-centred care (PCC) delivery model.

• Support cultivating organisational culture and aligning strategies, goals and framework to enable the delivery of PCC.

• Facilitate interdisciplinary team discussions to align and prioritise care goals

• Evaluate PCC plans, incorporating anticipatory care needs, in consultation with the interdisciplinary team

• Manage residents with complex care needs in collaboration with the interdisciplinary care team and the larger community care systems

• Perform medication management including administration, titration, reconciliation and education in accordance with organisational guidelines and protocols

• Recognise early signs of deterioration in residents, intervene and escalate appropriately

• Engage residents, families and caregivers for Advance Care Planning/Preferred Plan of Care in collaboration with primary care teams

• Ensure that timely and accurate documentation is performed by the care team as per organisational standards and guidelines

Clinical Supervision and Teaching

• Be grounded to provide ongoing clinical supervision to care staff and work with them to ensure safe and quality care.

• Conduct incidental and bedside teaching to enhance their competencies when rendering care to the residents.

• Follow-up with care staff post training they have attended and assess their competencies using the competency checklist

Resident & Community Engagement & Empowerment

• Advocate for residents’, families’/sponsors’, caregivers’ and/or the community’s needs and their readiness for community care interventions

• Build therapeutic relationships and professional boundaries when dealing with residents, families/sponsors, caregivers and/or community partners

• Evaluate effectiveness of resident, family/sponsor and/or caregiver training and education and recommend follow-up actions

• Collaborate with care team members and community partners to recommend appropriate interventions for residents

Others

• Assist in the implementation of systems and processes to ensure compliance with MOH and regulatory standards

• Work closely with SNM QM and SCM/NM to plan and prepare for inspection and renewal of licences for all nursing home services

• Participate in developing of the risk management strategies, including identification, monitoring and evaluation of nursing clinical quality indicators.

• Participate in managing emergency response and crisis management plans in accordance with organisational direction including collaboration with relevant departments and stakeholder

• Perform any other roles and responsibilities as assigned by SCM

Requirements:

• Possess a minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing

• State Registered Nurse with valid practicing license issued by the Singapore Nursing Board

• Valid certification in Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS)

• At least 4-6 years of clinical experience as SSN, preferably in the community care sector will be an added advantag

• Clinical supervision and teaching skills

• IT savvy - MS Words/Excel/Powerpoint

• Strong communications and inter-personal relationship skills