Clinical Specialist (Doctor) at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose

To take a leadership role, with responsibility for risk management and relationship management activities for defined medical disciplines.

Key Outputs

As regards the identified Health Professional Groups / Societies, to:

• Build a deep understanding of both the clinical and practice issues affecting medical professionals.
• Monitor, with the support of the SRM team, key metrics reflecting HP cost and care utilisation experience.
• Proactively identify and develop creative proposals to address identified Health Professional cost, administrative and relationship challenges impacting the profession across all medical schemes under the administration of Discovery Health.
• Work within a shared value approach, to ensure successful development and implementation of approved projects
• Develop and maintain strong relationships between Discovery Health and identified Health Professional groups and relevant opinion leaders.
• Work closely with Discovery Health service, operational and system teams to ensure the highest levels of responsiveness and service excellence to the Health Professional community
• Represent the Discovery Health position on key issues at relevant Group/ Society forums .

Competencies

• Great Communication Skills (written and verbal)
• Ability to easily manage and build good working relationships
• Driven and Enthusiastic
• Analytical Problem-Solver
• Innovative
• One who takes initiative

Experience And Qualifications

• A qualified Medical Doctor (must be registered with HPCSA)
• 3 -5 funding or commercial organisation experience would be preferred
• Ability to work with analytical teams in the development of HP initiatives
• Relevant training and business experience
• Significant experience in the healthcare industry and understanding of the key business and clinical issues
• Public forum experience is critical
• Must have project and initiative implementation experience
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills
• Strong administrative skills (MS Excel, MS Word & Power Point are essential)