Advanced clinical skills within Aged Care. Consistent success in managing teams and residents. Able to adapt quickly to a changing environment and work well under stress. Working with teams and residents to provide personalised care to residents. I am Currently working as a Clinical Care Coordinator with very high success rate, I frequently cover the Clinical Services Manager and have also worked as Acting Facility Manager. Focused on developing strong teams while serving as positive role model,
- Supervision of Care Staff and Registered nurses
- Oversee clinical care in collaboration with clinical support staff.
- Consult with families, allied health and medical personnel
- Provision of appropriate and timely documentation that meets regulatory requirements.
- Doing assessments and care plan reviews of residents regularly.
Completing and reviewing incident reports.
- Identify high risks and ensure care is of best practice, report all clinical issues.
- Participation in continuous quality improvement activities and over see specialized nursing audits.
- Complete and supervise documentation of assessments, care plans care evaluation
- Complete Care Plan Consults on new Admission residents
- Daily reading of the progress notes and review of work logs
- Daily monitoring of any ill, palliative care and complex medical needs of those residents.
- Complete and supervise wound management
- Make appropriate referrals for the consumer in your care.
Covered Facility Manager while on leave.
- Provide overall leadership and management of the aged care facility.
- Deliver positive business outcomes and financial results.
- Oversee staff selection, management, development and appraisals
- Drive the provision of quality care and clinical services.
- Ensure the facility operates in line with all relevant legislation, regulatory requirements and professional standards.
- Maintain resident well being and a positive client experience.
- Ensure positive clinical outcomes.
- Maintain a continuous improvement approach.
Stepped into Acting Clinical Services Mangers role multiple times to cover for the CSM.
- Ensuring all compliance with legislative requirements and maintaining aged care quality standards.
- Read progress notes daily and informing the team of any follow-ups required and also to identify any areas of concern.
- Daily meeting with coordinator to set out plan for the day.
- Reviewing and closing incident reports.
- Ensuring psychotropic forms are up to date.
- Conduct audits and gap analysis to identify areas of continuous improvement for clinical care.
- Design, introduce and support quality initiatives to ensure accreditation standards are surpassed
- Manage the clinical and care team, providing them with support, direction and guidance
- Develop genuine and productive relationships with residents and their families to provide an exceptional customer experience that exceeds their expectations
- Completing the initial assessment and care planning; and the ongoing management and evaluation of resident's individual care needs within the scope of practice Implementing the nursing care plan as assessed for each resident by the health care team and the resident/representative.
- Liaising with visiting medical officers and other health professionals and residents/relatives in the planning, implementation and evaluation of the resident's care needs. - Delivering to residents a holistic concept of care using the resident's care plan, utilising the Person Centred Care' approach.
- Supervising, managing and monitoring the standard of care delivered to the residents, ensuring that the care is individualised and person-centred according to resident's individualised care needs.
- Assessing and planning residents' care needs on an on-going basis and updating documentation as per protocol.
- Ensuring maintenance of all necessary medical records, including accurate, concise and precise daily and critical reports that will contribute to effective communication and support resident classification claims.
- Attending to wound dressing of residents as needed.
- Administration of medication to residents as per their medication chart and needs.
- Auditing High-risk Accommodation Housing.
- Providing them with resources and education on COVID safety.
- Creating Prevention and Preparedness plans for residencies.
- Managing COVID-19 outbreaks.
- Creating COVID-19 Outbreak management plans.
- Managing teams of nurses who are auditing and supporting them through the education process.
- Supervising and overlooking a team of Care Connectors.
- Oversee the operations of effective and efficient clinical and social care to clients.
- Calling COVID-19 positive cases to conduct a clinical and Social assessment.
- Arranging services to safely isolate them for their isolation period.
- Escalating the patient’s case if they fall under high risk.
- Designing and delivering personalised isolation plans for individuals after assessing their needs.
- Practiced collaboratively and provided clinical leadership within the health care team to promote the safety, security, and personal integrity of individuals and groups.
- Educated staff and community on processes and policies and maintained data and care quality.
- Liaised between leads from different areas (housing, testing, GP’s, etc.) to facilitate smooth communication and successfully achieve Results.
- Ensuring the staff roster has an adequate level of professionals and staff to provide high-quality care.