Katherine Price

• Collaborate with the Director of Nursing to provide leadership to achieve professional and organisational standards of nursing practice, research, patient care and patient experience.

• Lead cultural change through the development and implementation of educational and practice development strategies that promotes learning, skill enhancement, leadership and teamwork

• Facilitate, coordinate and lead the development and implementation of nursing policy, procedures, guidelines and clinical pathways, to ensure evidence based practice is embedded into patient care.

• Provide high level advice and support for mental health nursing professional practice matters.

• Support the implementation of strategies for the effective and timely recruitment and retention of staff, support and monitor the professional development, capabilities and utilisation of the nursing workforce to meet the needs of patients within the Health Service.

• Provide enhanced clinical and operational support to the Director of Nursing in addressing the key issues identified within the Strategic and Operational Plans, namely the use of evidence based models of care and service frameworks to provide a cohesive and integrated Health Service.

• Manage and develop people and inspire direction and purpose, through transformational leadership and positive change management.

• Model and actively promote workplace behaviour that reflects the NSW Health Code of Conduct; drive, lead and model behaviours to staff and patients that reflect the Excellence Framework (Every Patient, Every Time), including 90 day action plans; accountability meetings; leader and service rounding and ensure work is conducted in a manner that demonstrates values of cultural respect in accordance with HNE Health's Closing the Gap strategy.

• Operational management of mental health units including acute adult units, Older Person's mental health unit, and Covid positive mental health units (during pandemic).
• Providing senior nursing leadership to achieve professional and organisational standards of nursing and midwifery practice, patient care and patient experience.
• Monitor and manage FTE, Workloads and rostering systems to achieve required skill mix, hours per day and performance targets.
• Manage the financial resources to optimise them in the delivery of services within an approved budget.