Nursing Manager

Zambia Sugar Plc. is an ABF Sugar Company and is the leading sugar producer in Zambia. Its main activities are the growing of sugar cane, the production and marketing of sugar and other sugar downstream products.

The company invites applications from suitably qualified and experienced people to fill the following positions in the Estate Support Services Department.

1.NURSING MANAGER x 1

This position reports to the Chief Medical Officer.

Key Responsibilities

Patient care;

• Ensure that nursing care is carried out as directed, and treatment is administered in accordance with doctors’ instructions.
• Minimize hospital-acquired infections
• Provide professional nurse leadership to ensure the delivery of safe, high quality, cost-effective and compassionate patient services.
• Contribute to clinical governance within the Nursing Services, investigating clinical incidents as requested and identifying audit topics for nursing issues
• Work with kitchen facilities and/or patients’ relatives to ensure that patients’ nutritional needs are met

Management of Operations and Administration;

• Design and implement procedures, rules, and regulations to ensure good administrative and support services for the clinic/hospital, supporting the delivery of high standards of care by maintaining good housekeeping and cleanliness
• Provide operational oversight and supervision of Occupational Health nursing services, ensuring quality service delivery, employee wellbeing, and compliance with statutory requirements
• Manage and supervise nursing care operational issues in the hospital and clinics (outpatients, wards, wellness clinic, Doctors consultation rooms, emergency rooms etc.)
• Manage the nursing staff duty roster to optimize fair workloads while ensuring that nursing staffing is appropriate to patient needs.
• Monitor resource allocation (linen, consumables, medicine, oxygen, etc.) between hospital, clinic units or ambulances and be accountable for the equipment used in the nursing care areas.
• Verify emergency equipment availability, facilitate equipment inventories and maintenance.
• Support the Chief Medical Officer in the selection, recruitment, onboarding and training of new nurses.
• Initiate the recruitment of locum staff and ensure availability of temporary staff when necessary for continued quality health care
• Monitor satellite clinics’ operations.

Communication and Relationships;

• Act as an expert resource, providing advice on nursing issues in relation to clinical interventions, policies and protocols, service delivery and service development.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with all stakeholders – including the Ministry of Health, implementing partners and community leaders.
• Proactively seek the views of patients and ensure that feedback is valued and acted upon.
• Resolve conflicts between patients and nursing staff
• Resolve conflicts between nursing staff
• Conduct presentations, facilitate workshops, hospital or clinic meetings and participate in the planning of community health initiatives.
• Support the Chief Medical Officer in developing and implementing an annual Medical Outreach Plan (including commemoration of health days such as World AIDS Day, World Malaria Day, Wellness days, International nurses day, etc.)

Staff development.

• Identify and support continuous improvement, Learning and Development opportunities for nursing staff in consultation with the Chief Medical Officer and empower nurses to take on a wider range of clinical tasks
• Set performance objectives for nursing staff, routinely monitor their performance, and evaluate them at the end of the performance period.
• Recommend disciplinary actions for the nursing staff through consultation with the Chief Medical Officer.
• Assist nursing staff in identification of developmental opportunities in the wider business
• Encourage Nursing staff in continuous medical education

Financial Management

• Contribute to the hospital/clinic budget setting process on nursing care consumables, nursing staff uniforms and Personal Protective Equipment
• Manage operating budget by monitoring overtime and standby expenditure monthly.

Inventory Management

• Maintain nursing supplies inventory by studying usage reports, identifying trends, anticipating needed supplies, and approving requisitions.
• Facilitate the provisions of adequate medical supplies in all clinics/hospitals

Governance and reporting

• Maintain documentation of patient care by auditing patients and hospital/clinic’s department records and reports.
• Ensure that effective medicines management processes are established and that the regulatory requirements for controlled drugs are established and maintained in all medical facilities.
• Participate in hospital committees such as Infection Prevention and Control Committee, Drugs and therapeutics committee.
• Ensure compliance to the code of nursing and medical ethics.
• Promote and adhere to ABF’s procedures, policies and guidelines, including, without limitation, those relating to SHERQ, Competition Law and Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC)

Minimum Requirements

• Full grade 12 Certificate.
• Degree in Registered Nursing
• Diploma in Occupational Health
• Advanced diploma in Midwifery added advantage
• Preferably 7 years relevant managerial work experience
• Registration with relevant country Professional Health Bodies
• Basic Computer Literacy
• Knowledge of nurse/practitioner led initiatives & national policy
• Strong leadership abilities
• Written and verbal communication
• Enthusiastic, highly motivated and able to inspire others
• Conscientious, committed, reliable and hardworking
• Customer services skills.
• Suitably qualified applicants must provide certificates verified by Zambia Qualifications Authority (ZAQA).

Should you be interested in applying for any of these roles, please submit your detailed CV, copies of relevant qualifications, registrations and ID/Passport as a single pdf document for the attention of HR Business Partner Email: careers@zamsugar.zm indicating “Application – Nursing Manager” in the subject line.

All internal employees are required to complete the Internal Application Form and obtain relevant signatures when applying for vacancies.

How to Apply

Apply by emailing: careers@zamsugar.zm