Home Manager

• Oct 2022 - Present

Home Manager

• Jul 2020 - Oct 2022

Clinical Services Manager

• Feb 2020 - Jul 2020

Manages staff members in clerical, administrative and clinical areas.•Manages staff recruitment, development and training.•Supervises daily activities in the facility.•Develops and implements policies, procedures and work standards.•Formulates, monitors and enforces budgets.•Makes purchasing decisions. •Holds meetings and communicates with staff.•Ensures that the entire medical operation at the healthcare facility is running a smoothly as possible.•Supervises staff in a number of departments.•Attends public meetings to publicize the healthcare facility.•Handles community outreach programs.•Strives to improve the overall quality of healthcare for each patient.•Assists with clinical assessments of patients.•Helps keep patient medical records updated with the most recent medical treatments.•Educates patients and their families on available treatment options.•Works with insurance companies and managed care contractors to help get medical procedures approved for patients.•Works with staff to select and implement software for electronic health records as required by law. Show less

Nurse Manager

• Sep 2015 - Feb 2020

Unit Manager

• Dec 2013 - Sep 2015

I have overall management responsibility for a clinical area and are tasked with ensuring standards of care in a 19 bedded mixed gender older adults with a progressive neurological condition care facility. Managing all aspects of the operational model of the clinical area . My Key areas of focus are healthcare governance, bed occupancy, control of costs and management of human resources.To motivate, inspire and enable the ward team to achieve targets and innovate new practices and services. This is achieved through the provision of visible leadership, ensuring a high profile and presence on the clinical area Show less

Deputy Unit Manager

• Jan 2008 - Nov 2013

Assisting the Unit Manager in managing and running a the HD service between 2 wards consisting of a 11 bedded Huntington Disease unit and a 13 bed HD and dementia unit ensuring that the nursing care provided is client centered based on assessment of patient needs.Assisting the Unit Manager with the recruitment and retention of staff as appropriate.Managing the 4 day shift teams and 2 night shift teams totaling 27 on the dementia ward and 21 on the HD unit. Functionally supervising qualified staff, health care assistants, housekeeping staff and inducting new staff/students on the unit. Responsible for providing care to clients with acute or complex mental health needs.Responsible for managing the 2 units electronic Rota and annual leave and ensuring that the right skill mix is present on each shift to deliver effective client centered care.Responsible for ensuring the development of evidence based clinical practice guidelines that promote client interaction in their care and taking note of their cultural diversity.Responsible for encouraging service user and carer involvement in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of client care pathways.Managing unit security arrangements, risk assessments and investigating serious incidents and co-coordinating the allocation of staff in relation to physical restraint and clinical incidents across the unit and supporting the Unit Manager in setting, monitoring and evaluation of nursing standards that enhance patient safety.Leading or attending client case conferences or case reviews evaluating the effectiveness of the treatment and care and mapping patient journeys throughout their inpatient stay..Responsible for ensuring that safe nursing practice is maintained during all nursing procedures, administration of medication, and compliance with best practice in relation to psychological therapies. Show less

Senior Staff Nurse

• Jan 2006 - Dec 2007

Responsible for assessing client’s needs and formulating, developing and implementing programs of care utilising evidence based tools. Responsible for providing care to clients with acute or complex mental health needs.Participate and lead in the Care coordination process, including care coordinator responsibilities, report writing for mental health tribunal case reviews, managers meetings.Responsible for encouraging service user and carer involvement in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of client care pathways.Responsible for maintaining appropriate level of security and adherence to clinical and security policies, within a medium secure environment including room searches, person searches and be aware of high risk and contraband items.Responsible for regularly co-coordinating clinical interventions to challenging behavior such as self harm and aggression which may result in emotional stress.Responsible for line managing healthcare assistants and housekeepers carrying out supervision and participate in appraisal and personal development plans of junior staff Show less