Aisling Adams
St. Brelades,Jersey
Summary
Registered Nurse with 15 years of experience in clinical leadership and service management. Proven ability to adapt to diverse environments while maintaining professionalism and integrity. Demonstrated success in collaborating with stakeholders to enhance service delivery and establish strong partnerships. Recognised for effective decision making and creative problem solving in high pressured environments
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work history
Lead Nurse IPU and Quality Assurance
Jersey Hospice Care
09.2024 - Current
- To be accountable for service and for the management and development of their team members.
- To be accountable for the quality-of-service delivery, ensuring effective patient care, research, training and development within JHC.
- To promote the development and maintenance of high standards of care in order that the care offered is family centred, sensitive and responsive to service users.
- To be responsible, working with the Director of Palliative Care Services and senior nurses/ clinicians across all disciplines and service users, for developing the annual service objectives and effecting their implementation across clinical teams.
- To monitor service objectives and ensure that the quality of the service is congruent with the resources available.
- To ensure effective working practices with community stakeholders to maximise the delivery of a seamless service.
- In conjunction with senior nurse/clinicians, evaluate the contribution of staff groups and skill mix to ensure the provision of an acceptable level of service that appropriately supports the inpatient clinical activity of JHC.
- To promote effective working partnerships Hospice-wide and with Regional and National colleagues to strategically position JHC for future service change and developments in accordance with local, regional and national policy in maintaining the reputation of the service for high standards of care and innovative practice.
- To ensure all JHC quality data and clinical operational data is recorded and to analyse any vacancies and report to senior management.
- Contribute to the development and lead on the implementation of best practice service modernisation and improvement plans and strategies within JHC.
- Encourage a culture of continuous improvement and mutual co-operation in the achievement of the highest possible standards of clinical care and maximum efficiency.
- Work with Director of Palliative Care Services, stakeholders and colleagues to develop clinical governance systems within JHC and ensure that all relevant Jersey Care Commission and international standards are met.
- To support the Director of Palliative care services to provide professional nursing and clinical leadership In IPU, ensuring an appropriate structure is in place to support Nurses, Health Care Assistants in collaboration with the senior nurse to encourage innovation and promote succession planning.
- In collaboration with the clinical leadership team, develop and promote nursing practice and integrated patient care policies across inpatient services, including the development of specialist nursing and Multidisciplinary Team approaches and policies.
General Manager-Medical Services
Health Community Services
St Helier, Jersey
02.2023 - 09.2024
- Lead the development of the strategic direction for the care group in line with the overall HSC strategy and transformation programme, ensuring that all key objectives are incorporated into service plans and objectives for all staff.
- Analyse performance data and trends to identify opportunities to improve the services of the group and department, and recommend policy and legislative changes with relevant stakeholders, thereby ensuring that services meet the needs of the people of Jersey and the organisation’s One Government vision.
- Develop, plan and lead the implementation of new service initiatives or amendments that may be based around new technologies or new ways of delivering existing services in order to support the best outcome for patients and the department.
- Lead and deliver change and continuous improvement projects through appropriate project management methodologies.
- Ensure governance and effective reporting arrangements are in place and followed for their care group in order to achieve service delivery objectives and realise target benefits.
- Implement, embed and maintain an effective clinical governance and risk management framework to drive improvement through measurement, analysis, research and implementation of strategic solutions, ensuring effective controls and in line with the overall HCS Governance Framework.
- Design and implement change within the care group acting as a change agent and role model to gain commitment from colleagues and motivating the workforce to overcome barriers and improve effectiveness.
- Drive the successful financial & business planning of the group, ensuring compliance with Financial Directions, whilst continually balancing budgets to ensure quality/safety/efficiency for service users.
- Implement, maintain and develop effective multi-agency links, joint working and processes which enable the department to meet its statutory and common law duties of care towards patients/clients and staff.
- Responsible for ensuring effective safeguarding measures and processes are in place to protect vulnerable adults and children including escalating to the appropriate bodies/agencies in order for them to provide support.
- Ensure the Care Group is compliant with policies and procedures relating to care delivery and recognised standards as well as corporate policies.
General Manager-Executive Leadership Team
Health & Community Services
St Helier , Jersey
09.2021 - 01.2023
- Develop, plan and lead the implementation of new service initiatives or amendments that may be based around new technologies or new ways of delivering existing services in order to support the best outcome for patients and the department.
- Lead and deliver change and continuous improvement projects through appropriate project management methodologies.
- Ensure governance and effective reporting arrangements are in place and followed for their care group in order to achieve service delivery objectives and realise target benefits.
- Implement, embed and maintain an effective clinical governance and risk management framework to drive improvement through measurement, analysis, research and implementation of strategic solutions, ensuring effective controls.
Workforce Lead-COVID Vacciantion Program
Government Of Jersey
St Helier, Jersey
09.2020 - 09.2021
- To lead, co-ordinate and facilitate workforce planning and development in collaboration with service colleagues ensuring the Government of Jersey has a workforce plan that sustains the current and future delivery of the COVID Vaccination Program for patients and services users as part of the Government plan.
- Collaborated with other leaders across the crown dependencies and UK agencies to direct workflow and support operations.
- Coordinated schedules and reviewed work performance for staff, including both Non Clinical and Clinical staff.
- Keep up to date with policy and legislative developments affecting local government, and assist in developing services that respond to the changing needs
- Drive the successful financial & business planning of the workforce group, ensuring compliance with Financial Directions, whilst continually balancing budgets in relation to workforce to ensure quality/safety/efficiency for service users.
- Defined and documented existing processes to develop solutions that streamline and scale operations.
Senior Nurse for Quality and Practice Assurance
Health and Community Services
St Helier, Jersey
09.2018 - 09.2020
- Responsible for the development and implementation of systems within nursing and midwifery areas that demonstrate the quality of care, positive patient experience and provide assurance on professional practice
- Responsible for the direction, leadership, performance and implementation of the Jersey Nursing Assessment and Accreditation System working across a range of services with professional and operational leads to ensure the delivery of a high quality, patient centred services that meet patient needs.
- To work cross organisationally and with partner organisations supporting practice and establishing, maintaining and assuring high standard of care delivery.
- To identify and agree appropriate data to be collected and methods and systems for obtaining the data collection. Collate and analyse the information, as a means of organisational assurance to inform the Chief Nurse and the Management Executive about practice in the Wards
- To ensure a high quality, patient centred service that meets the needs of the patients, ensuring strategies are in place that enhance the patients experience in line with local and national agendas e.g. essence of care, infection control, safeguarding, tissue viability, health and safety, health promotion, hospital cleanliness and clinical leadership development.
- To work closely with service users and members of the public to ensure that health and wellbeing can be promoted and implemented
- To have a leadership role in the development and auditing of nursing practice, ensuring that HCS is at the leading edge of practice development and that supporting clinical guidelines are developed and reviewed.
- To respond positively to any requests by the Chief Nurse of Head of Professional Practice to undertake investigations, deep dives, coaching, mentoring or supervising practitioners.
Senior Sister
Jersey General Hospital
St. Helier, Jersey
02.2017 - 09.2018
- Provide clinical, professional and managerial leadership to the nursing and administration team.
- To ensure high standards of care are consistently delivered to patients that is both safe & cost effective.
- To ensure that the highest standard of evidence-based nursing care is delivered to all patients and their families.
- To monitor and ensure patient satisfaction and be proactive in managing any issues that are identified.
- To act as a resource of specialist clinical knowledge and information for nursing staff and ensure that all nursing practices are meeting the required standards.
- To promote reflective practice and learning in order to ensure that nursing care is research based, appropriate and responsive to patient needs.
- To work closely with the consultants for the achievement of effective patient management ensuring that individual consultant care protocols are followed.
- To ensure a high standard of infection control and the prevention of all avoidable healthcare associated infection on the ward.
- To ensure that all policies, procedures, guidelines and work instructions that relate to the wards are regularly reviewed and updated, as required.
- To set standards and undertake clinical audits, as required. To discuss and promote innovations that will improve patient care.
- To efficiently manage the wards ensuring that resources are used effectively whilst maintaining high standards of patient care.
- To complete activity figures and monthly dashboards as required by the organisation.
- To effectively manage the service in order to meet the financial targets for the wards and service.
- To exercise fair and firm leadership, establishing and maintaining high morale in the department.
- To monitor the level and standard of work produced by the staff and guide, coach and advise them as appropriate.
- To facilitate the professional development of all ward staff to ensure that they are competent to provide the service required.
- To identify the training needs for ward staff ensuring that mandatory training requirements are met and documented.
- To maintain sound and effective working relationships and communication with all hospital staff and consultants.
- To ensure that ward staff are complying with all policies that are relevant to their role and area of working.
- To produce the staff duty rotas to meet the activity of the wards, ensuring that staffing levels appropriately reflect case mix and dependency levels.
- To ensure that all ward staff participate in appraisal reviews. To manage staff sickness, conduct and capability.
- To ensure that regular staff meetings take place and that minutes are circulated as per terms of reference.
- To ensure the wards comply with all health and safety requirements and that appropriate policies and procedures are adhered to.
- To undertake risk assessments and participate in Health & Safety audits, as required.
- To maintain current awareness regarding developments in nursing and service.
- To ensure personal continuing professional development (CPD) is maintained to comply with NMC requirements.
- To attend hospital meetings and functions, as required.
- To participate in the rota for site management as required.
Acting Sister
Health and Social Services (PPS)
Jersey General Hospital
11.2016 - 03.2017
- managed a team by ensuring patient safety is the at the the centre of our care.
- implemented new measures on the ward in order to build the team rapport.
- Since bringing in the team nursing model in, the staff communication has improved and the rapport with each other has also improved.
- implemented measures in relation to infection control by appointing a cleanliness champion on the ward and new checklists to ensure standards are being met. We are now getting 100 per cent in our audits.
- working closely with our physio service for the ward to try and implement the same standards that are across the organisation so that we are on an even par with regards to enhanced recovery.
- working closely with our kitchen staff in trying to improve its efficiency by implementing some of the ways in which other private hospitals work.
- working closely with the private patients manager in relation to the branding project that is undergoing on the wing at the moment in order to improve the service we have and promote our business.
- I am currently looking into how we can maximise the availability of private beds in the staffing budget we have. I am working closely with the bed manager in relation to this to come up with a new referral system in regards to private patients.
- working with the workforce planning team in order to develop Health care assistants to take on more responsibility. It is an exciting opportunity as we are the only ward trialling it at the moment.
- I am also very budget aware, i am working with the private patient manager in relation to this.
- completing training need analysis on staff members to ensure that patient safety is maintained.
- working closely with the nursing staff in relation to revalidation.
- work with other members of the organisation by ensuring that policy and procedures are being followed on the ward.
Senior Staff Nurse
Health and Social Services (PPS)
Sorel ward, Jersey General Hospital
08.2015 - 11.2016
- work as part of the highly skilled team in the private wing. It is a mixed speciality unit which has great learning opportunities.
- work as part of the multidisciplinary team to deliver a high standard of care to patients within the clinical area.
- was given the opportunity to act up while my manager was away.
- oversaw and managed the clinical and support staff members in patient care activities whilst maintaining a high standard of morale and professionalism.
- supported the division and organisation in movement of staff across wards/departments to meet the needs of the hospital when I acted up.
- have undertaken the responsibility for thestaff roster of the ward ensuring that we have correct numbers for patient to nurse ratio and if we need to open Rozel, keeping in mind the skill mix. I also try and cover our own ward staff sickness by checking our numbers for each day and balance them out by making changes to the off duty. The staff are very flexible with their duty and can help more often than not.
- liaise with insurance companies making sure patients are covered for the required amount of time.
- work closely with the consultants ensuring they have filled medical reports out for the insurance companies
Staff Nurse
Anne Young Ward
St. James Hospital, Dublin
09.2011 - 07.2015
- Anne young is a plastics and maxillofacial surgical ward in which I gained experience in both minor and major trauma cases and Head and neck cancer resections.
- My role was to work as part of the multidisciplinary team to deliver a high standard of care to patients within my clinical area.
- I was responsible for managing the care of patients and the needs of their families, ensuring that quality care is maintained.
- I was also responsible for student nurses during their placement.
- I was trained in guiding and directing student learning and ensuring that optimal learning opportunities have been availed by the students to help further develop their skills.
- During my time in anne young , I had the opportunity to further develop my plastics knowledge by spending 4 months in the burns unit where I gained priceless experience in which I will carry through with me on my journey as a staff nurse.
- On many occasions I took charge of the ward when my managers were finished or off duty.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and motivate the nursing team.
Education
Certificate of Higher Education - European Certificate in Palliative Care
Princess Alice Hospice
04.2001 - /2025
Certificate of Higher Education - Level 7 Strategic Management and Leadership
Chartered Management Institute
Jersey 04.2001 - /2025
Certificate of Higher Education - Clinical Supervision
APT
LeicesterDiploma of Higher Education - Management and Leadership
Chartered Management Institute
Jersey09.2017
Bachelor of Science - Adult Nursing
Trinity College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland2011
Secondary Education Exam -
Loreto Balbriggan
Dublin, Ireland2006
Certificate of Higher Education - Level 6 Mentorship
University of Chester
References
on request
Timeline
Lead Nurse IPU and Quality Assurance
Jersey Hospice Care
09.2024 - Current
General Manager-Medical Services
Health Community Services
02.2023 - 09.2024
General Manager-Executive Leadership Team
Health & Community Services
09.2021 - 01.2023
Workforce Lead-COVID Vacciantion Program
Government Of Jersey
09.2020 - 09.2021
Senior Nurse for Quality and Practice Assurance
Health and Community Services
09.2018 - 09.2020
Senior Sister
Jersey General Hospital
02.2017 - 09.2018
Acting Sister
Health and Social Services (PPS)
11.2016 - 03.2017
Senior Staff Nurse
Health and Social Services (PPS)
08.2015 - 11.2016
Staff Nurse
Anne Young Ward
09.2011 - 07.2015
Certificate of Higher Education - European Certificate in Palliative Care
Princess Alice Hospice
04.2001 - /2025
Certificate of Higher Education - Level 7 Strategic Management and Leadership
Chartered Management Institute
04.2001 - /2025
Certificate of Higher Education - Clinical Supervision
APT
Diploma of Higher Education - Management and Leadership
Chartered Management Institute
Bachelor of Science - Adult Nursing
Trinity College Dublin
Secondary Education Exam -
Loreto Balbriggan
Certificate of Higher Education - Level 6 Mentorship
University of Chester