Person Centred Care Officer

Netcare; Alberton; On-site; ZAR 360,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Netcare in Alberton is seeking a patient experience-focused role to enhance the quality of care and address patient concerns during hospital stays. You will engage patients and families, manage complaints, and coordinate with hospital teams to drive service improvements.

The role requires strong English communication, professional conduct, and the ability to work across departments to ensure timely resolutions and continuous patient satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Intermediate to advanced level of computer literacy and proficiency in MS Office.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate clearly in English.
• Ability to inspire a culture of person-centred care.
• Multitasking ability and the ability to handle stressful situations and difficult stakeholders.
• Willingness to travel to support role functions.

Responsibilities

• Welcome patients and families and ensure exceptional patient experience.
• Manage and resolve patient complaints with confidentiality and empathy.
• Escalate IT or operational complaints to appropriate stakeholders and monitor resolution.
• Investigate quality of service issues and implement improvement actions.
• Provide regular feedback to patients and families on investigation outcomes and actions taken.
• Collaborate with hospital teams and head office on improvement initiatives.

Job description

* Welcome the patient and the family to the hospital and ensure that the patient experience is memorable by making the patient feel like a valued guest.* Communicate to the patient and their family that different avenues for feedback are available and encourage the utilisation of these feedback mechanisms.* Serve as the face of patient care by dealing effectively with all customer complaints which includes resolving them effectively while maintaining confidentiality at all times.* Escalate and oversee resolution of any IT system or other operational complaint to the appropriate stakeholder and ensure that the complaint is effectively dealt with.* Ensure that complaints and concerns are acknowledged in a timely, appropriate, empathetic and respectful manner.* Facilitate and assist with investigations relating to the quality of the service provided, identify stakeholders who are required to assist or provide input and implement improvement actions in line with the complaints standard operating procedure.* Ensure that all hospital stakeholders understand and comply in a consistent manner to the patient complaint standard operating procedure.* Provide feedback to the patient and their family on an ongoing and regular basis in an appropriate, empathetic and respectful manner.* Escalate appropriate concerns accompanied by the relevant investigation outcome and other documentation to the General Hospital Manager, Regional management and Head office structure in line with the standard operating procedure.* Finalise complaints by ensuring that all information on the system is processed accurately and timeously and that the relevant documentation is completed.* Conduct ward rounds to engage patients during their stay in order to provide feedback and identify any problems with regards to service delivery.* Communicate with patients during their hospital stay to ensure that complaints are effectively dealt with prior to the patient leaving the Netcare facility.* Ensure that any complaints raised post the discharge of the patient are investigated and resolved effectively.* Demonstrate an ability to sensitively and confidentially deal with problems and apply judgment in problem solving, conflict resolution and cultural awareness.* Ensure that time is allocated to assisting all the Hospital stakeholders to identify and implement function specific improvement work within each of the relevant areas.* Present to the Hospital General Manager concerns and possible improvement initiatives based on patient and family feedback and co-own the testing of improvement ideas.* Collaborate and co-own with head office-initiated improvement work such as explaining medical information to a patient in a way that they understand.* Role model and explain the importance of person-centred care to other hospital-based teams such as security, porters, parking attendants, food hostesses, retail pharmacy employees, radiography, pathology services and doctor's rooms.* Capture complaints on the relevant Netcare system and ensure that these complaints are resolved within the relevant timeframes.* Track, analyse and report patient feedback and ensures the implementation of action items aimed at improving the quality of patient care.* Assist with the interpretation of data and utilise important feedback provided in the existing Netcare reports to improve the patient experience.* Assist Management with the preparation of reports as required.* Monitor and record compliance to improved outcomes.* Comply with the patient care Standard Operating Procedures, ensuring that all employees have read and understood them.* Execute corporate CSA (controlled self-assessment) and audit activity relevant to person centred health and care.* Keep up to date with Netcare's evolving policies and procedures.* Handle all routine administration queries and work requests that may not be included in this role profile and resolve these efficiently and effectively within the required turnaround times.* Work effectively and co-operatively with others to establish and maintain good working relationships that are mutually beneficial.* Establish and service relationships with all internal and external stakeholders, including Hospital management, patients, service providers and colleagues to improve the patient experience.* Demonstrate personal commitment to internal and external stakeholders by fulfilling responsibilities, involving others, gaining support for ideas generated and removing obstacles to team accomplishments.* Establish and consolidate good interpersonal relationships by listening to others and objectively considering their ideas and opinions even when they conflict with their own ideas.* Actively participate as a member of a team to achieve goals and does not function independently.* An intermediate to advanced level of Computer Literacy and proficiency in MS Office applications.* Superior interpersonal skills (developing and maintaining positive relationships; communicating clearly and effectively with people at all levels with verbal and nonverbal communication; working with others to identify, define and solve problems).* The ability to communicate and write exceptionally in the English language.* Ability to inspire others to believe in the culture of person-centred care.* Knowledge of customer service practices and principles.* Professionalism.* Multi-tasking ability and the ability to handle stressful situations and difficult stakeholders (internal and external) appropriately.* Professional flexibility in working hours while supporting daily business hours.* Will interact with internal and external customers through several different means.* Travel to support the functions of the role may be required.**We provide meaningful careers that connect people with purpose.**We attract highly skilled, engaged, and performing employees who are passionate about providing quality health and care.By joining Netcare, you will feel a great sense of inclusion and belonging as part of a family that cares about your growth and wellbeing.You will work with the best-in-class technology with high standards of health and safety. We offer competitive remuneration and benefits that are benchmarked against the best market trends. You will enjoy a fulfilling career working in a high performance, values driven organisational culture that values diversity.The Netcare Group offers a wide spectrum of career opportunities within various disciplines including nursing, emergency medical services, pharmaceutical services, information technology, human resources, finance and administration, procurement, technical and maintenance and marketing.## Our recruitment process typically follows the following steps:* ## Should you be shortlisted for the position, you will be contacted by the relevant HR Department to arrange an interview.* ## Our selection process may further include employee risk assessments which includes employment references, credit, criminal and qualification checks.* ## Should your application be successful, our human resources department will provide you with a formal letter of appointment and will contact you with information to facilitate your onboarding process.* ## Kindly note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Applicants who have not been contacted within 30 days of the closing date of this advert, should consider their application as unsuccessful.**Our story begins with our values and our behaviours.**We are motivated by a belief in the sanctity of human life. We see it as a privilege to serve South Africans in their time of greatest need and vulnerability.To this end, we constantly explore new ways to blend compassion with cutting edge capabilities. But while much has been said about our world class facilities, our global benchmarks and clinical best practice, our greatest strength is our people.**People who care for other people.****Our