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.

Closing: 2025-11-25