Vacancies

Night Quality Supervisor

Function
Nursing
Facility
Life Mercantile Hospital
Position
Night Quality Supervisor
Introduction

A vacancy exists for a Night Quality Supervisor, based at Life Mercantile Hospital, reporting to Raathiga Veerapathran, Nursing Standards Manager. The successful candidate will be responsible for the co-coordinating and leading provision of quality patient care during the night in support of hospital and nursing objectives of quality, growth and people.

Critical Outputs

Effective quality management

  • Communicating, supporting, coaching and monitoring night staff to ensure a safe patient and staff environment
  • Identifying clinical competence and addressing the concern with the line manager
  • Participating in and leading quality projects to support a culture of quality

Effective operations management

  • Ensuring staff allocations are adequately assigned
  • Understanding stock management processes to achieve unit targets
  • Effectively managing unplanned events to ensure optimal utilization of resources
  • Providing direction and inspiring positive work behavior to keep staff motivated and productive

Effective relationship building with internal & external stakeholders

  • Displaying visible leadership to night staff and management to ensure productive and motivated teamwork
  • Participating in meetings to ensure productive and meaningful relationships with external stakeholders
  • growth - Visible clinical leadership
  • efficiency - Effective financial management – Cost-effective management of resources across all business processes (including pharmacy and clinical engineering)
  • Quality - Effective and visible clinical leadership to ensure quality care delivery benchmarked against international standards for quality and safety
  • Sustainability - Effective people management – retaining employees through leadership and empowerment (including internal and external stakeholder - relationships)
Requirements
  • Registered with SANC
  • Current experience private healthcare
  • 3-5 years’ experience as a registered nurse
  • Previous experience as a night quality supervisor would be an advantage
  • Proven leadership abilities
  • Ability to communicate effectively
  • Computer literate
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
  • Motivating and developing people
Email
zwelitsha.vani@lifehealthcare.co.za
Closing date
Friday, July 18, 2025

Internal applicants - Before making an application, you are requested to discuss your application with your line manager. External candidates will also be considered.

Life Healthcare is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. Kindly note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.  Applicants who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date of this advert, should consider their application as unsuccessful.


External employment application form