Hospital Manager - Herolim Private Hospital at Africa Health Care

Description

• An opportunity is available for a Hospital Manager, reporting to the Chief Operating Officer. The successful candidate will be responsible for meeting the needs of the internal and external customers through the execution of the Hospital’s business strategy and operational objectives in growth, quality & people by leading, managing and coordinating all hospital activities.

Critical Outputs

Ensuring effective people management by:

• Actively lead and manage hospital’s management team and ensure participation from all parties to achieve strategic objectives.
• Providing direction and inspiring positive work behaviour in the hospital.
• Recruit, retain, motivate and develop staff according to the Hospital’s people policies and practices.

Effective hospital operations management through:

• Driving the optimal functioning of hospital operations, identifying and monitoring gaps and risks and implement corrective action accordingly.
• Maintaining quality patient care standards.
• Effective relationship management with doctors.
• Effective quality systems management.
• Actively lead and market quality in the hospital as it relates to staff, doctors and other stakeholders.

Ensuring the achievement of the hospital financial targets by:

• Preparing and monitoring annual budgets with management and implement corrective actions as required.
• Managing of revenue, cost of sales, overheads, EBITDA and working capital.
• Ensuring and driving optimal management of business governance to achieve sound business ethics, risk management and control with appropriate transparency and controls.

Effective governance and risk management by:

• Ensuring optimum management of business governance to achieve sound business ethics, risk management and control with appropriate transparency.

Requirements

• Relevant business or healthcare degree essential.
• Proven leadership and general business management experience (including financial management and business planning processes) within a healthcare environment.
• Knowledge of the private healthcare industry, its challenges and role-players and understanding of relevant legislation.
• Exposure to specialised medical services i.e. Cardiology and Cardiothoracic
• Basic understanding of or the ability to learn specialization fields, terminology and medical equipment.
• Computer proficiency.

Competencies

• Collaboration/ Relationship Building
• Verbal & written communication and presentation skills
• Negotiation
• Strategic agility
• Customer responsiveness
• Project management
• Excellence and quality orientation
• Ethical behaviour
• Innovation
• Decision making

 Closing: 2026-01-19