Assistant Director of Nursing (Clinical)

About the role

The Assistant Director of Nursing (Clinical) at Tengah General and Community Hospital (TGCH) provides strategic, clinical and operational leadership across designated clinical programmes and care areas. The role is accountable for clinical governance, professional nursing standards and patient care outcomes, and drives care model transformation, service development, operational readiness and workforce capability building. TGCH is a new hospital campus in Tengah Forest Town, part of the NUHS cluster, expected to be ready by the early 2030s.

Key responsibilities

• Clinical governance, quality and patient safety: oversee nursing practice, develop and evaluate nursing standards and care delivery frameworks, drive quality, patient safety and risk management, and promote evidence-based practice and continuous improvement.
• Service planning and transformation: lead nursing strategic planning and operational readiness for new services, programmes and facilities, and collaborate with multidisciplinary stakeholders on service redesign and integrated care.
• Workforce leadership: lead workforce planning, talent development and succession management, coach nursing leaders and build a high-performing, engaged workforce.
• Operational performance: oversee nursing manpower, productivity and resource utilisation, and drive productivity, efficiency, digital transformation and technology adoption.
• Organisational leadership: contribute to planning as a member of the Nursing Leadership Team, lead institutional portfolios and projects, represent Nursing Services in institutional, cluster and national forums, and advance nursing through research and professional development.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing and Advanced Diploma in Nursing, or Master's degree in Nursing, Healthcare Management, Leadership, Public Health or equivalent preferred.
• Registered as a State Registered Nurse with the Singapore Nursing Board.
• Minimum 15 years of post-registration clinical nursing experience, including at least 8 years of progressive nursing leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading multiple clinical units, programmes or nursing services.
• Experience in service development, workforce planning, organisational change and healthcare transformation.
• Experience in hospital commissioning, operational readiness, service activation or major organisational projects is advantageous.