Job Description
About the role
• To provide professional leadership and overall accountability for nursing services across the hospital, ensuring safe, effective, compassionate and patient-centred nursing care.
• The Chief Nursing Officer sets nursing standards, leads the nursing workforce, and ensures compliance with the requirements of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria.
Responsibilities
• Provide overall professional and administrative leadership of nursing services across all streams.
• Set, maintain and audit standards of nursing care, patient safety and nursing governance.
• Lead nursing workforce planning, staffing, rostering and skill-mix across units.
• Supervise, mentor, appraise and develop nursing leaders and staff, and coordinate CPD/MCPDP compliance.
• Ensure safe, effective and compassionate nursing care across out-patient, in-patient and specialised oncology/infusion services, recognising the distinct clinical demands of each.
• Ensure effective interface between nursing and medical, pharmacy, diagnostic, managed-care and support services.
• Contribute to service planning, resource management and quality-improvement initiatives.
• Ensure nursing practice is delivered by appropriately registered and licensed nurses, in line with NMCN requirements and internal policies.
• Represent nursing in hospital governance, committees and management forums.
Requirements
Education:
• Registered Nurse RN qualification from an accredited School/College of Nursing, or a Bachelor of Nursing Science BNSc/BSc Nursing from a recognised university.
• Completion of any required orientation/internship and NYSC for degree holders, or a valid exemption where applicable.
Experience:
• Minimum of 15 years of post-registration NMCN nursing experience, including at least 5 years in senior nursing leadership.
• Substantial post-registration nursing experience, including experience at a senior or nurse-leadership level.
• Demonstrable experience leading and coordinating nursing services across units.
• Experience in nursing governance, quality assurance, staffing, and the supervision and appraisal of nursing staff.
Required skills:
• Strong knowledge of nursing practice and nursing leadership across care settings.
• Ability to lead and coordinate a large nursing workforce.
• Sound understanding of nursing governance, patient safety, audit and quality assurance.
• Ability to plan nursing staffing and skill-mix.
• Effective communication, teaching and supervisory skills.
• Sound clinical record-keeping and competent use of clinical systems.
