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Unit Manager (I) - ICU

Full time Netcare Akasia Hospital, ZA
Posted 2 hours, 37 minutes ago 11 views 0 applications

Job Description

We need to output clean semantic HTML per rules: use

for paragraphs,

for section headers,
  • for list items. No CSS classes, no inline styles, no
    , no
    . Must preserve all original content word-for-word, no addition, removal, summarizing, rephrasing. Must return only HTML. We have raw input with many

    , ,

      ,
    • ,
      , etc. We need to convert to proper HTML tags as per rules: headings as

      , paragraphs as

      , lists as

      • . Must preserve content exactly, but we can change tags. Must not add or remove any text content. Must not add extra spaces? Probably okay. We need to parse the input and produce HTML. Let's extract the textual content ignoring original tags but preserving text. Original text includes many bold tags etc. We need to keep the text inside them, but we can drop the tags? The rule says preserve ALL original content word-for-word — do not add, remove, summarise, or rephrase. If we remove tags, we are removing markup, but content is the text inside. The instruction likely means preserve the textual content, not the markup. Since we are converting to semantic HTML, we can drop the and replace with appropriate heading or paragraph. The content inside should remain as text. Thus we need to output something like:

        We provide meaningful careers that connect people with purpose.

        We are united by a common purpose of providing the best and safest care; and by our shared values of Care, Truth, Participation, Compassion and Dignity.

        Netcare invites you to be part of our journey.

        The Unit Manager will be responsible for coordinating improved quality nursing care by ensuring compliance to professional and ethical practice. The incumbent will also be responsible for monitoring and ensuring that nursing care and service delivery is implemented and practiced within a multi-disciplinary quality assurance team. In accordance the incumbent will be accountable for coordinating capacity building, mentoring and training.

        Job Summary

        • The Unit Manager will be responsible for coordinating improved quality nursing care by ensuring compliance to professional and ethical practice.
        • The incumbent will also be responsible for monitoring and ensuring that nursing care and service delivery is implemented and practiced within a multi-disciplinary quality assurance team. In accordance the incumbent will be accountable for coordinating capacity building, mentoring and training.

        KEY WORK OUTPUT AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

        CONSISTENCY OF CARE

        Financial Management

        • Manage acuities and skill mix in such a way as to ensure cost effective quality care.

        • Manage all costs emanating from the department

        • Ensure correct billing, stock management and purchasing

        • Facilitate timeous and accurate compilation of files

        Governance and quality management

        • Identify quality improvement opportunities and ensure appropriate strategy and Quality Improvement initiatives are developed and measured

        ... etc. But note that the original had bullet points using "•". Those are characters, we should keep them as part of text. They are not list items originally; they are within paragraphs. The rule says use
        • for list items (duties, requirements, qualifications, skills). The bullet points are not marked as list items originally; they are just paragraphs with bullet characters. Should we convert them to
          • ? The rule says use
            • for list items (duties, requirements, qualifications, skills). It doesn't say we must convert bullet characters to list items; but we should follow semantic HTML: if there is a list, we should use
              • . The bullet points appear under sections like Financial Management, Risk management, Patient care, etc. They are clearly list items. So we should convert each bullet line to
              • . However we must preserve the bullet character? If we wrap in
              • , we should keep the bullet character as part of the text? Usually
              • renders a bullet automatically; but we must preserve original content word-for-word. If we remove the bullet character, we are removing content. So we need to keep the bullet character inside the
              • . That means
              • • Manage acuities and skill mix...
              • . That preserves the bullet character. Similarly for other bullet lines. Also there are some lines without bullet like "Governance and quality management" which is not a bullet but a heading? In original it's plain text after a bullet line. Actually after the bullet list under Financial Management, there is a line "Governance and quality management" then a bullet line. It seems "Governance and quality management" is a subheading? It's not bold. We'll treat as a paragraph. We need to be careful to preserve line breaks? Not needed as we use

                for paragraphs. We must not use
                tags. We must not use

                . We must not add any extra text. We need to output only HTML. Let's reconstruct the entire content step by step. I'll copy the original text and manually convert. Original:

                We provide meaningful careers that connect people with purpose.

                We are united by a common purpose of providing the best and safest care; and by our shared values of Care, Truth, Participation, Compassion and Dignity.

                Netcare invites you to be part of our journey.

                The Unit Manager will be responsible for coordinating improved quality nursing care by ensuring compliance to professional and ethical practice.

                The incumbent will also be responsible for monitoring and ensuring that nursing care and service delivery is implemented and practiced within a multi-disciplinary quality assurance team. In accordance the incumbent will be accountable for coordinating capacity building, mentoring and training.

                Job Summary

                • The Unit Manager will be responsible for coordinating improved quality nursing care by ensuring compliance to professional and ethical practice.  
                • The incumbent will also be responsible for monitoring and ensuring that nursing care and service delivery is implemented and practiced within a multi-disciplinary quality assurance team. In accordance the incumbent will be accountable for coordinating capacity building, mentoring and training.

                KEY WORK OUTPUT AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

                CONSISTENCY OF CARE


                Financial Management


                • Manage acuities and skill mix in such a way as to ensure cost effective quality care.
                • Manage all costs emanating from the department
                • Ensure correct billing, stock management and purchasing
                • Facilitate timeous and accurate compilation of files
                Governance and quality management
                • Identify quality improvement opportunities and ensure appropriate strategy and Quality Improvement initiatives are developed and measured

                Risk management


                • Investigate all negative incidents and ensure appropriate capturing on IMS
                • Monitor safety standards in accordance with the Machine and Occupational Safety Act (Act 6 of 1983). Report all accidents and incidents to Line Manager / Safety Representatives
                • Ensure compliance with protocols, policies and Acts
                • Ensure that all equipment is in working order and properly maintained
                • Control of asset register

                Patient care


                • Ensure the unit is providing safe, cost-effective quality patient care in line with the Clinical Governance strategy and evidence based practice
                • Evaluate the patient’s journey through patient experience and stakeholder input
                • Evaluate nursing quality indicators and clinical outcomes
                • Communicate effectively with patients regarding their care
                • Promote health and wellbeing of patients and staff
                • Ensure the principles of infection prevention and all standard precautions are adhered to
                • Implementing group quality initiatives

                TRANSFORMATION OF OUR SOCIETY


                Transformation targets
                • Ensure achievement of transformation goals as set out by the Transformation Committee

                Teamwork
                • Actively participate as a member of a team to achieve goals

                Personal and professional development
                • Active involvement in own professional development to maintain a satisfactory level of skill and knowledge.
                • Keep up to date with Netcare’s evolving policies and procedures
                • Keep abreast of current research in the applicable discipline

                People management
                • Create an environment where staff are aware of the role they play in the provision of quality nursing care and their value to the organization
                • Assign decision making, authority, tasks and responsibility to appropriate persons in order to maximise organisation and employee effectiveness.
                • Develop a talented nursing workforce.
                • Co-operate with Netcare Education Division to ensure appropriate nursing training for the delivery of quality care
                • Facilitate a culture that is supportive of talent management and the initiation of required implementations to hone nursing talent
                • Monitor staff attendance and/or absenteeism and ensure action is taken accordingly
                • Enforce staff dress code within and on leaving the Hospital
                • Facilitate effective change and conflict management
                • Orientation of new staff and students
                • Facilitate staff development both personal and professional
                • Coaching and mentoring of staff
                • Ensure professional conduct and appearance of staff
                • Promote staff wellbeing


                Build and maintain stakeholder relationships
                • Work effectively and co-operatively with others to establish and maintain good working relationships that are mutually beneficial.
                • Create and maintain a positive environment where the differences of others are recognized, understood, and valued, so that all can reach their full potential and maximize their contributions.
                • Develop collaborative relationships to help accomplish work goal
                • Maintain customer intimacy through building relationships with doctors, nursing staff, suppliers and building patient loyalty
                • Build strategic inter-departmental relationships to help achieve business goals at Exco and departmental level within the hospitals
                • Foster an effective working relationship with service providers
                • Foster an effective working relationship with Public liability
                 

                SKILLS PROFILE

                EDUCATION

                Essential

                • A relevant nursing qualification (Diploma in General Nursing/ B Cur Degree) or equivalent NQF 7 qualification
                • Registration with the South African Nursing Council as a Registered Nurse
                • Compliance with the SANC code for a Registered Nurse and all applicable health care legislations
                • Critical Care Nursing qualification

                Preferred

                • A relevant management qualification

                WORK EXPERIENCE

                Essential

                • An intermediate level of Computer proficiency

                Preferred

                • 2 or more years’ experience in a private hospital setting
                • Experience in clinical leadership

                KNOWLEDGE

                Essential

                • Sound financial knowledge and the ability to interpret financial data

                NETCARE VALUES AND BEHAVIOURS

                Netcare Values

                At Netcare, our core value is care. We care about the dignity of our patients and all members of the Netcare family. We care about the participation of our people and our partners in everything we do. We care about truth in all our actions. We are passionate about quality care and professional excellence.

                • At Netcare, our core value is care.
                • We care about the dignity of our patients and all members of the Netcare family.
                • We care about the participation of our people and our healthcare partners in everything that we do.
                • We care about the truth in all our actions.
                • We listen with empathy and respond with acts of compassion in all interactions with our patients and their families.

                The Netcare Way

                Netcare is committed to providing quality care. Our basic service standard holds us accountable for the below seven behaviours which you will be accountable to uphold:

                • Respect - I always greet everyone to show my respect.
                • Identity - I always wear my name badge to show my identity.
                • Dignity - I always treat others with consideration and humility to uphold dignity
                • Care - I always act in the best interest of Netcare and others to show I care
                • Compassion - I always listen with empathy and respond with kind action to show my compassion
                • Appreciation - I always say thank you to show my appreciation.
                • Diversity- I always embrace diversity to strengthen inclusivity and belonging.

                We are committed to promoting diversity and Inclusion in the workplace therefore preference will be given to qualifying applicants living with disabilities.

                Join the team committed to providing the best and safest health and care.

                We need to strip all original tags and produce new tags. Let's extract plain text sequentially, ignoring tags but preserving spaces and line breaks? We'll just produce paragraphs. I'll go through and produce HTML. Start: 1. "We provide meaningful careers that connect people with purpose." ->

                We provide meaningful careers that connect people with purpose.

                2. Empty

                -> we can ignore empty paragraphs (they add no content). Should we keep them? They are empty, preserving them would be

                which adds no visible content but is extra markup. The rule says preserve ALL original content word-for-word. Empty paragraph is content? It's a tag with no text. If we remove it, we are removing a tag, but the instruction likely refers to textual content. I'd drop empty paragraphs. 3. "We are united by a common purpose of providing the best and safest care; and by our shared values of Care, Truth, Participation, Compassion and Dignity." ->

                We are united by a common purpose of providing the best and safest care; and by our shared values of Care, Truth, Participation, Compassion and Dignity.

                4. Empty

                ignore. 5. "Netcare invites you to be part of our journey." ->

                Netcare invites you to be part of our journey.

                6. Two empty

                ignore. 7. Then text: "The Unit Manager will be responsible for coordinating improved quality nursing care by ensuring compliance to professional and ethical practice.

                The incumbent will also be responsible for monitoring and ensuring that nursing care and service delivery is implemented and practiced within a multi-disciplinary quality assurance team. In accordance the incumbent will be accountable for coordinating capacity building, mentoring and training." We need to convert

                to paragraph break. So we have two sentences separated by double line break. We'll make two paragraphs. First sentence: "The Unit Manager will be responsible for coordinating improved quality nursing care by ensuring compliance to professional and ethical practice." (note there are two spaces before

                but we can trim). Second sentence: "The incumbent will also be responsible for monitoring and ensuring that nursing care and service delivery is implemented and practiced within a multi-disciplinary quality assurance team. In accordance the incumbent will be accountable for coordinating capacity building, mentoring and training." Thus:

                The Unit Manager will be responsible for coordinating improved quality nursing care by ensuring compliance to professional and ethical practice.

                The incumbent will also be responsible for monitoring and ensuring that nursing care and service delivery is implemented and practiced within a multi-disciplinary quality assurance team. In accordance the incumbent will be accountable for coordinating capacity building, mentoring and training.

                8. Then there are

                twice empty ignore. 9. Then

                Job Summary

                -> heading:

                Job Summary

                10. Then
                • ...
                • ...
                -> we keep as
                • ...
                • ...
                . The content inside li includes trailing spaces and nbsp? We'll keep text as is, but we can trim extra spaces. The first li: "The Unit Manager will be responsible for coordinating improved quality nursing care by ensuring compliance to professional and ethical practice.  " (there's a non-breaking space after period). We'll keep the text without the nbsp? Might be considered content. Safer to keep exactly: "The Unit Manager will be responsible for coordinating improved quality nursing care by ensuring compliance to professional and ethical practice. " (with a space). We'll just output the sentence without extra spaces. Second li: "The incumbent will also be responsible for monitoring and ensuring that nursing care and service delivery is implemented and practiced within a multi-disciplinary quality assurance team. In accordance the incumbent will be accountable for coordinating capacity building, mentoring and training." Thus:

                Job Summary

                • The Unit Manager will be responsible for coordinating improved quality

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