CareBridge Recruitment

Job Description

JOB SUMMARY

The Clinical Midwife is responsible for competently providing safe and effective care to Women during pregnancy, labor and delivery, and their newborn babies in the postpartum period with minimal supervision by the Clinical Nurse Leader/Clinical Midwife Leader. The Clinical Midwife assesses care needs, plans, implements and evaluates programs of care. The Clinical Midwife is responsible for ensuring that all duties are carried out to the highest possible standard, aligned to Regional Standards of Practice.

The Clinical Midwife participates in the supervision, orientation and training of staff and is responsible for education of patients, families and students.  The Clinical Midwife is professionally accountable to the Chief Nursing Officer.

KEY ROLE ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Makes decisions related to the plans of care for women and their babies.

Professionalism and Ethical Practice

• Assumes responsibility for the delegation of aspects of care delivery.
• Provides total individualized woman-centered care and assumes responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care during the antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum periods, discharge planning for each woman, her baby and family.
• Ensure timely documentation of care, discharge planning and family education aligned to Regional standards of documentation.
• Practices as an expert practitioner demonstrating critical and analytical thinking by problem solving and escalating appropriately in the process of care delivery in the client group.
• Independently initiates escalation of issues following the chain of command, utilizing resources as needed.
• Independently maintains licensure and regulatory requirements (e.g., life support certifications and CPD requirements)
• Meets requirements of organizational, profession and departmental/role specific orientation competencies
• Role model’s appearance and behaviors that promote a positive image of midwifery.
• Adheres to time and attendance requirements.
• Participates in new staff/student orientation, assists in maintaining a suitable learning environment and acts as a preceptor/mentor in the supervision and teaching of new staff/students to develop their competence.
• Actively participates and/or contributes the Shared Leadership structure to promote and embed Shared Leadership

Woman and Family Centered Care

• Provides holistic, woman and family centered care based on evidence and best practice.
• Anticipates and responds to woman and family care requirements that involve the pre-conception, antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum periods, provides newborn care, family planning.
• Provides holistic care to women during labor, detects complications and abnormalities and initiates appropriate emergency interventions and escalates concerns. 
• Conducts normal births when required and carries out designated roles and tasks in the event of surgical intervention.
• Promotes the access of medical care and assistance to pregnant women as needed.
• Provides advice on the promotion of health and wellbeing.
• Evaluates learning needs of the woman and/or family and provides appropriate educational program and family education.
• Maintains confidentiality at all times.

Teamwork and Collaboration

• Treats colleagues, patients, and visitors with dignity and respect at all times
• Promotes and maintains effective communication and teamwork.
• Promotes collaborative working within the multi-disciplinary team understanding the role of all members.
• Demonstrates collaborative and respectful behavior.
• Contributes to a positive work environment.

Evidence Based Practice

• Adheres to Regional’s Nursing and Midwifery Standards of Practice
• Ensures Woman centered health care is based on best evidence.
• Promotes and supports breastfeeding in alignment with the current WHO/UNICEF Guidelines

Quality Improvement

• Identify ways to improve services through quality improvement initiatives.
• Participates in quality improvement initiatives and measure outcomes.
• Contributes effective use of resources and identifies any opportunities for efficiency.
• Participates in investigation of clinical incidents for safety and quality improvement.

Safety

• Acknowledges own limitations in knowledge, judgment and/or skills, and functions within those limitations.
• Demonstrates consistent and reliable use of technology and standardized practices that support safety and quality.
• Communicates observations or concerns related to hazards and errors to patients, families and the health care team.
• Use organizational error reporting systems for near miss and event reporting
• Demonstrates effective use of strategies to reduce risk of harm to self or others
• Assumes responsibility and accountability for own clinical decision, delegation and provides supervision to team members according to their competence and scope of practice

Informatics

• Accurately, concisely and appropriately documents care, interventions and outcomes in a timely manner
• Practices contemporaneous documentation, ensuring entries into the medical record are recorded and signed in real time
• Utilizes data from the patient record to make decisions and responds appropriately to clinical decision-making supports and alerts
• Protects confidentiality of protected health information in electronic health records
• Follows all Hospital related policies and procedures.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
• Adheres to Hospital’s standards as they appear in the Code of Conduct and Conflict of Interest policies
• Adheres to and promotes Hospital’s Values

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS – SELECTION CRITERIA

ESSENTIAL

Education:   Bachelor’s Degree in Midwifery or Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing and recognized post graduate program in Midwifery AND Registered Midwife.
 

Experience: Overseas candidates: 3 years of clinical experience as a midwife after completing the midwifery program and registration / licensing as a registered midwife.

Certification and Licensure:   Valid professional Midwifery license for country of origin.

Job Specific Skills and Abilities:  

Effective communication skills
Excellent team player.
Motivated and enthusiastic.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite. 
Fluency in written and spoken English

Job Description

Job Summary:

The Clinical Nurse is responsible for competently providing safe and effective care to patients and families. The Clinical Nurse assesses care needs, plans, and implements and evaluates programs of care. The Clinical Nurse is responsible for ensuring that all duties are carried out to the highest possible standard. The Clinical Nurse participates in the supervision and teaching of more junior and new members of staff within the unit. The Clinical Nurse is professionally accountable to the Chief Nursing Officer.

KEY ROLE ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Provides total individualized patient care and assumes accountability for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care, discharge planning for each patient and assessing for current and potential problems.
• Accurately, concisely and appropriately documents care, interventions and outcomes.
• Contributes to the achievement of clinical quality outcome indicators and patient satisfaction by demonstration of extraordinary service.
• Utilizes a professional practice framework and evidence based care, identifies improvement areas while minimizing risks creating care that is optimal for our patients and families.
• Promotes a safe environment and safe patient care by embracing a safety culture and identifying areas of risk.
• Educates the patient/family and other members of the health care team.
• Contributes to excellence in outcomes, a positive patient experience and a healthy professional environment.
• Contributes effective use of resources.
• Leads and/or contributes to service based Performance Improvement activities and organizational committees as assigned.
• Develops and sustains (maintains) own knowledge, clinical skills (mandatory training), professional (portfolio or profile) awareness and provides documented evidence of performance and maintenance of skills consistent with position.
• Treats colleagues, patients, and visitors with dignity and respect at all times and promotes and maintains effective communication and teamwork.
• Maintains confidentiality at all times.
• Identifies and alerts members of the medical team to changes in medical status of the patient.
• Works in collaboration with Case Management to achieve goals.
• Participates in new staff/student orientation, assists in maintaining a suitable learning environment and acts as a preceptor/mentor in the supervision and teaching of new staff/students to develop their competence.
• Maintains a professional demeanor and upholds the organizational values at all times.
• Acts as a role model for junior staff and assists in promoting and sharing knowledge via mentorship/preceptorship programs in line with relevant research and evidence based practice.
• Follows all Hospital related policies and procedures.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

This job description forms the basis of the requirements for the role. The incumbent may be required to undertake specific assigned tasks relevant to their area of work and are additionally required to demonstrate competencies specific to the post as outlined in the Job Description Addendum.

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS – SELECTION CRITERIA

Education

ESSENTIAL

• Bachelor Degree in Nursing (4 years)
• Registered Nurse

PREFERRED

• Post graduate certificate in specialty if applicable in country of origin

Experience

• 2+ years of recent clinical nursing experience within the relevant specialty from a highly esteemed healthcare institution

Certification and Licensure

• Valid professional Nursing license in country of origin

Job Specific Skills and Abilities

• Effective communication skills
• Excellent team player
• Motivated and enthusiastic
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite
• Fluency in written and spoken English

Summary

Responsible for providing comprehensive nursing care utilizing the nursing process and meeting the established standard of nursing practice and performance. Demonstrates leadership competencies while in charge or acting as shift resource/team leader.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties

1. Provides total patient care as assigned according to the core standards of patient care and established policies and evidence-based practices.

2. Assumes accountability for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care as well as discharge planning for each patient.

3. Contributes to decreasing the length of stay/waiting time as per unit specific goal. Works in collaboration with Case Management to achieve goals.

4. Documents all relevant information correctly, appropriately, and in a timely manner.

5. Reports equipment failures, safety and security issues, and/or reduction of supply inventory to Head Nurse or designee.

6. Demonstrates collaborative multi-disciplinary partnerships working towards the achievements of constant improvement in quality patient care. Acts as an advocate for patients and families. Identifies ideas that will improve the quality of patient care and issues that will negatively affect patient care outcomes, using the professional practice framework.

 7. Promotes a safe environment and safe patient care by embracing a safety culture and identifying areas of risk to head nurse or designee. Complies with policies for personal and patient safety and for the prevention of healthcare associated infections.

8. Contributes to the achievement of cost efficiency savings on unit. Maintains an awareness of resource utilization, exercising care in the ordering and use of staff, equipment, and materials.

9. Contributes to the achievement of clinical quality outcome indicators and patient satisfaction. Leads unit based Performance Improvement activities as assigned.

 10. Participates in new staff/nursing student orientation aimed at developing competence and performance. Assists in maintaining a suitable learning environment and acts as a preceptor/mentor in the supervision and teaching of nursing students and new staff to develop their competence.

11. Demonstrates transcultural principles in nursing practice.

12. Contributes to special projects/assignments linked to nursing strategic priorities and professional practice model as assigned.

13. Assists in promoting and sharing knowledge via mentorship in line with relevant research and evidence based practice.

14. Follows all Hospital related policies and procedures.

15. Participates in self and other’s education, training and development, as applicable.

16. Performs other related duties as assigned.

Education

Bachelor’s or Associate Degree/Diploma in Nursing is required.

Experience Required

Two (2) years of Nursing experience in acute hospital with Bachelor’s or four (4) years with Associate Degree/Diploma is required.No experience is required for Saudis with Bachelor’s Degree. Enrolment in New Graduate Development Program for staff with less than one (1) year of experience is required.

Other Requirements(Certificates)

Current Registered Nurse Licensure from country of origin and Saudi Commission for Health Specialties Licensure is required.

Summary

Facilitates continuity ofestablished nursing practice/comprehensive nursing care delivery. Supports andupholds objectives of Nursing and Hospital Administration and positivelypromotes Nursing Affairs (NA) across organization.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties

1. Represents Nursing Administration during evenings, nights, and weekends.
2. Ensures appropriate utilization of nursing resources.
3. Confers with charge person regarding patient acuity and/or staffing changes required. Determines staffing changes and approves overtime to provide for unplanned situations. Maintains an awareness of resource utilization, exercising care in the ordering and use of staff, equipment, and materials.
4. Refers unit-specific occurrences or incidents to Head Nurse and/or Nursing Administration for follow up.
5. Provides input to Head Nurse and/or Nursing Administration for staff performance evaluations. Advises, counsels and disciplines staff as required or requested.
6. Responds to Code Green, Fire, and Disaster Drills.
7. Prepares reports and maintains records.
8. Observes and evaluates nursing care effectiveness on shift and communicates identified issues to Head Nurse and/or Nursing Administration.
9. Participates in the promotion and maintenance of effective communication and teamwork.
10. Actively welcomes new staff/students to the assigned area and participates in retention activities. Contributes to the retention of all staff to meet the assigned area specific turnover rate goal.
11. Demonstrates collaborative multi-disciplinary partnerships working towards the achievements of constant improvement in quality patient care and the smooth running of out of hour’s operations.  
12. Identifies ideas that will improve the quality of patient care and issues that will negatively impact on patient care outcomes, using the professional practice framework. Participates through team working and collaborative partnerships in identifying and implementing solutions through evidence based practice or research to demonstrate improvements reflected in unit, divisional, organizational data, and bench marks.
13. Develops and sustains own knowledge, skills, and professional awareness and maintains a professional profile. Provides documented evidence of performance and maintenance of skills consistent with position.
14. Contributes to the achievement of clinical quality outcome indicators and patient satisfaction. Participates in Performance Improvement activities as assigned. Contributes to special projects/assignments linked to nursing strategic priorities and professional practice model.
15. Follow all Hospital related policies and procedures.
16. Participates in self and other’s education, training and development, as applicable.
17. Performs other related duties as assigned. 

Education

Master’s, or Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing is required.

Experience Required

Four (4) years of nursing experience with Master’s , or six (6) years of with Bachelor’s Degree is required.

Other Requirements(Certificates)

Current Registered Nurse Licensure from country of origin and Saudi Commission for Health Specialties Licensure is required.