Jobs at Africa Health Care

Description

• An opportunity exists for a Unit Manager (Surgical), reporting to the Nursing Services Manager. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring and monitoring the quality nursing care coordinating the multidisciplinary team in the unit.

Critical Outputs

• Evaluate and monitor nursing quality indicators and clinical outcomes.
• Provide cost effective quality patient care in line with clinical governance.
• Ensure the principles of infection prevention and all international standards precautions are adhered to.
• Implement quality initiatives. Communicate effectively with patients regarding their care.
• Function as clinical expert in achieving patient outcomes.
• Ensure competence of staff and students, determine and drive criteria for effective professional socialization, create an environment conducive to learning and provide feedback to relevant stakeholders.
• Promote customer satisfaction within unit, address customer complaints, conduct quality care rounds and clinical practice audits to monitor care levels and report accordingly.
• Identify clinical and safety risks and trends in all of the above, implement corrective action where necessary and monitor on an ongoing basis.
• Initiate and drive unit specific best operating practice, communicate these for wider implementation and participate in hospital specific marketing initiatives.
• Ensure staff are trained on the operation of equipment within unit and together with relevant stakeholders ensure equipment is in working order to provide a safe patient environment.
• Build and maintain productive relationships with doctors by agreeing on a professional code of conduct, driving and monitoring effective communication regarding positive patient outcomes.

Requirements

• Degree or Diploma in nursing with at least 5 years’ experience in Surgical.
• Current registration with SANC.
• Previous Unit Management experience.
• Proven leadership and people management skills would be an advantage.
• Basic understanding of labour legislation, financial and supply chain management principles.
• Computer proficiency.

Competencies

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

Closing: 2025-09-16

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Description

• A vacancy exists for a Unit Manager, 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 policies and practices.
• 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 policies and practices.

Effective operations management through:

• Driving the optimal functioning of 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 financial targets by:

• Preparing and monitoring annual budgets with management in order to 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

• 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
• Resilience
• Influencing
• Customer responsiveness
• Ethical behaviour
• Attention to detail
• Decision making

Closing: 2025-09-16

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Description

• An opportunity is available for a Hospital Manager (responsible for both RH Bell & RH Rand Clinic), reporting to the responsible 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’s 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
• Problem-solving, analysis and judgement
• Engaging diversity
• Verbal & written communication and presentation skills
• Negotiation
• Influencing
• Customer responsiveness
• Excellence and quality orientation
• Ethical behaviour
• Decision making

Closing: 2025-09-16