Deputy Hospital Manager

Function

Management

Facility

Life Vincent Pallotti Hospital

Position

Deputy Hospital Manager

Introduction

A vacancy exists for a Deputy Hospital Manager, based at Life Vincent Pallotti, reporting to the Hospital Manager. This role forms part of the businesses’ sustainability strategy through ensuring continued development, allowing opportunity to be involved in decision making and profit responsibility during their appointment, and retention of high calibre talent. The successful candidate will be responsible for meeting the needs of the internal and external customers through the execution of the LHC and complementary services strategic and operational objectives in growth, quality & people by leading, managing, and coordinating all complementary business units’ activities.

Critical Outputs

Incumbents will be work in a large hospital reporting directly to the Regional Manager with profit accountability and operational responsibility for the respective complementary/ ancillary units by:

Ensuring effective quality systems management by

• Implementing and improving quality standardized metrics.
• Ensuring compliance to clinical benchmarking initiatives in order to retain ISO certification.
• Identifying problems utilizing the root cause analysis and implement necessary remedial action.

Ensuring effective hospital operations management by

• Implementing and developing best operating practices and strategic business plans in order to optimize the functioning of hospital operations.

Ensuring effective people management by

• Actively sponsoring initiatives and demonstrate visible leadership skill in order to improve productivity and support change.
• Actively leading and managing hospital feedback meetings in order to achieve strategic objectives.
• Developing a resourcing plan in order to recruit talented staff in accordance with agreed time periods, taking into account company transformation objectives.
• Providing direction and inspire positive work behaviour.
• Developing and manage training plans for each department in order to facilitate talent development.
• Managing performance ratings for all staff through the performance improvement process.
• Ensuring all transactional processing is managed by the relevant department head in order to provide employee compensation and benefits.
• Ensuring productive working relationships are supported with minimum IR issues.
• Ensuring all exit interviews are conducted in order to ensure the retention of critical and talented professional staff.

Ensuring effective relationship management with doctors by

• Developing retention strategies and attract doctors in order to maintain mutually beneficial relationships.

Ensuring effective implementation of marketing strategy (including growth) by

• Developing and understand competitor strategies in order to effectively market the hospital.
• Positioning projects within local communities in order to ensure the hospital is visible.

Ensuring the achievement of the hospital financial targets by

• Preparing and monitor annual budgets with management in order to implement corrective actions as required.
• Planning and delivering Capex projects on time and within the specified budget.
• Identifying, developing and marketing new business opportunities.
• Supporting activities in order to maximize revenue generation.
• Managing the cost of sales and overheads effectively in order to reduce cost.

Ensuring the governance and risk management by

• Preparing annual risk assessments and progress reviews in order to achieve sound business ethics and risk management.

 

Requirements

• Minimum requirement qualification: open to any post-graduate degree in Commerce, Engineering, Health Sciences etc. or relevant business degree.
• Completion of the traditional Life Healthcare Hospital Manager Development Program will be advantageous.
• 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 including an understanding of the relevant legislation.
• Computer proficiency.
• Driver’s license and ability to travel nationally for assignment related operational requirements.

Competencies

• Problem-solving, analysis and judgement
• Resilience
• Engaging diversity
• Verbal & written communication and presentation
• Influencing
• Drive & energy
• Excellence orientation
• Ethical behaviour
• Building relationships
• Customer responsiveness
• Organisational awareness
• Leading my example (Key for Managers)
• Motivating and developing people(Key for Managers)

Email

Careers@lifehealthcare.co.za

Closing date

Wednesday, May 14, 2025