Unit Manager (Emergency Unit - Readvertised) – Medicare Private Hospital at Africa Health Care

Description

• A vacancy exists for a Unit Manager (Emergency Unit), reporting to the Nursing Service Manager.
• 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 the team and ensure participation from all parties to achieve strategic objectives.
• Providing direction and inspiring positive work behaviour in the clinic.
• Recruit, retain, motivate and develop staff according to the clinic’s people’s policies and practices.

Effective operations management through:

• Driving the optimal functioning of operations, identifying and monitoring gaps and risks and implementing 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 financial targets by:

• Preparing and monitoring annual budgets with management in order to implement corrective actions as required.
• Managing 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 control

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

• Registered with the South African Nursing Council as a Registered Nurse.
• Diploma in specialty would be advantageous
• Five years’ experience working as a Unit Manager in private healthcare.
• Computer proficiency.

Competencies

• Collaboration/ Relationship Building
• Problem-solving, analysis and judgement
• Resilience
• Negotiation
• Customer responsiveness
• Organisational awareness
• Excellence and quality orientation
• Ethical behaviour
• Adaptability
• Attention to detail
• Decision making

Closing: 2025-07-15