Team Leader

Narayana Health, one of India's largest and World's most economical healthcare service providers is set to emerge as a global industry model for its ability to reconcile quality, affordability, scale, transparency, credibility and sustainable profitability. From 300 beds hospital in 2001, Narayana Health has grown to a 6900 beds healthcare conglomerate in 2014 with 26 hospitals present in 16 Cities within the country and also has International Presence in Cayman.

NH has been known for its cost- cutting approach and ranked 36th among World's 50 Most Innovative Companies by Fast Companies in 2012. NH has also been a proud recipient of Frost & Sullivan India Healthcare Excellence Awards 2012 in the category Healthcare Service Provider Company of the Year and FICCI Health Care Excellence Award 2012 for Addressing Industry Issues.

Job Purpose:

Manage and ensure optimum performance of the unit in terms of Customer satisfaction and operational efficiencies.

Job Responsibilities:

PATIENT CARE

- Overall planning of nursing care of the patient in the unit.

- Maintaining cleanliness & sanitation of the unit.

- Rendering direct care to seriously ill patients as & when situation arises.

- Taking handover from the night shift in-charge.

- Taking bed to bed rounds.

- Supervising dietary arrangement & proper serving of diet.

- Taking care of the health teaching programme to the patients & their relatives in her unit.

- Co-ordinating patient care with other team members.

- Assisting doctors at the time of their rounds.

- Specially responsible for the care of acutely ill & seriously ill patients of the unit.

WARD ADMINISTRATION

- Preparing duty roster of the staff nurses & student nurses.

- Checking the attendance of all nurses of the unit.

- Allocating the bed to the nurses of each shift.

- Maintaining stock of equipment, medicines & linen.

- Indenting for supplies required for the running of the unit.

- Ensuring disposal of waste, prevention of misuse & loss of articles & medicine.

- Reporting any case of indiscipline, theft or loss to the higher management.

- Coordinating the orientation programme of the new staff, students & making arrangement for continuous on-the-job training.

- Making arrangement for keeping patient belongings in a safe custody as per laid down policy of the hospital.

- Supervising, guiding & directing the work of the nurses.

- Maintaining daily census.

- Coordinating with other departments for ease of operation.

- Taking care of the practical part of the nursing training.

- Assisting to organize health teaching programme for patients & their relatives.

- Organize ward teaching programme for staff nurses & students.

- Taking care of the in service classes & nursing research programmes.

Candidate Requirements:

- Strives to develop good relations with other departments and ensures teamwork and co-operation amongst staff

- Actively promotes practices that save company resources and minimize wastage

- Willingness and initiative in acquiring knowledge, updating skills and technology or professional competency

- Able to work under pressure and stressful situations while handling multiple tasks.

- Excellent documentation skills.

- Professional oral and written communication skills; must be able to interact and communicate effectively with individuals at all levels of the organization, as well as communicate with tact, diplomacy, and a high level of cultural sensitivity

- Strong attention to detail.

- Ability to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner.