Deputy Hospital Manager

LIFE Healthcare Group; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare group seeks a Deputy Hospital Manager for Life Eugene Marais Hospital. This key role involves operational management and strategic oversight to enhance healthcare quality and drive financial performance. Candidates should possess a post-graduate degree and substantial healthcare leadership experience, with skills in problem-solving, communication, and customer responsiveness.

Qualifications

• Leadership and management experience in healthcare with financial management.
• Knowledge of healthcare industry and legislation.
• Completion of Life Healthcare Hospital Manager Development Program preferred.

Responsibilities

• Implement quality metrics and ensure compliance with clinical benchmarking.
• Develop and optimize hospital operations through best practices.
• Lead people management initiatives including staffing and training plans.

Skills

Problem-solving

Communication

Leadership

Organizational awareness

Customer responsiveness

Education

Post-graduate degree in relevant fields or business

Tools

Computer skills

Job description

A vacancy exists for a Deputy Hospital Manager, based at Life Eugene Marais Hospital, reporting to the Hospital Manager. This role is part of the hospital's sustainability strategy, focusing on development, decision-making involvement, profit responsibility, and talent retention. The successful candidate will meet internal and external customer needs by executing strategic and operational objectives related to growth, quality, and people, leading and managing all complementary business units.

Critical Outputs

The incumbent will have profit accountability and operational responsibility for hospital units, working directly under the Hospital Manager, by:

• Quality Systems Management: Implementing quality metrics, ensuring compliance with clinical benchmarking, and addressing problems through root cause analysis.
• Hospital Operations Management: Developing best practices and strategic plans to optimize operations.
• People Management: Leading initiatives, managing feedback meetings, developing staffing and training plans, managing performance, and maintaining positive IR relationships.
• Doctor Relationship Management: Developing retention and attraction strategies.
• Marketing Strategy Implementation: Understanding competitors and positioning hospital projects in communities.
• Financial Targets Achievement: Budgeting, managing Capex, developing business opportunities, maximizing revenue, and controlling costs.
• Governance and Risk Management: Conducting risk assessments and ensuring ethical practices.

Requirements

• Post-graduate degree in relevant fields or business.
• Completion of Life Healthcare Hospital Manager Development Program preferred.
• Leadership and management experience in healthcare, including financial management.
• Knowledge of healthcare industry and legislation.
• Computer skills, driver’s license, and willingness to travel.

Competencies

• Problem-solving, resilience, diversity engagement, communication, influencing, drive, excellence orientation, ethics, relationship building, customer responsiveness, organizational awareness, leadership, motivation.

Email applications to [e-mail] by Wednesday, June 25, 2025. Internal and external candidates considered. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Unsuccessful applicants should consider their application as not advanced.