Delivering high quality continuing care for those patients requiring longer term nursing care is a key priority of the nursing agenda at Hamad Medical Corporation. The Assistant Executive Director of Nursing, Continuing Care will be fully involved in leading operationally, but also at a strategic level influencing the future direction of this expanding service. This post will provide the successful candidate with an exciting opportunity to be involved at the outset, developing, leading and coordinating a new continuing care strategy for Hamad and across Qatar more generally, as private providers enter the market.
The post will be part of an international, high calibre team led by Professor Ann-Marie Cannaby, who is the Chief Nursing Officer at HMC. Hamad Medical Corporation is seeking to appoint an exceptional individual to this post. The ideal candidate will be confident at providing excellent, hands on nursing management, as well as being an advocate for nursing development and leadership across the national healthcare sector; the post holder will be equally comfortable on the wards as in the boardroom. First and foremost, the Assistant Executive Director of Nursing must driven by the desire to deliver the highest quality patient care, seeking out and embedding opportunities to improve the safety, effectiveness and experience of care on the wards. He/she will have a customer/patient focus and have a proven ability to foster and instill compassionate care throughout the nursing workforce. He/she must have a track record in delivering transformational change in nursing practice. HMC aspires to having an increasingly large cohort of nurses that are trained and experienced as advanced and independent practitioners. The successful candidate for this position will be able to articulate and deliver a compelling vision for developing nursing roles with the ultimate aim of improving patient care. This means that the chosen individual will need to be fully up to date with advanced nursing practice in one or more of the major international healthcare systems. As a prominent leader of the nursing workforce in Qatar, the successful candidate will be expected to play a significant role in developing the profession at a national level, making a contribution to nursing training and development across the healthcare sector. As well as being a strong advocate for nursing, the successful candidate will have demonstrable experience of cooperative and collaborative working in a large and complex healthcare organisation and a strong track record in multi-disciplinary team working. As HMC develops its Academic Health System and improves the quality of care it provides, it will be increasingly important that its senior leaders work across professional disciplines within healthcare and with HMC’s academic partners.
