Quality Manager (Re-advertised) – Medicare Private Hospital

Africa Health Care; Rustenburg; On-site; ZAR 420,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Medicare Private Hospital in North West (Rustenburg) seeks a Quality Manager to join the multidisciplinary team, reporting to the Hospital Manager. You will drive quality nursing care, risk management and infection control across the facility.

The ideal candidate is a registered professional nurse with relevant healthcare management qualifications and at least 3 years in private healthcare. You will lead quality processes, incident investigations and safety committees to ensure legal compliance

Qualifications

• Registered with SA Nursing Council as a Professional Nurse.
• Diploma in Healthcare Management and infection control.
• Experience in private healthcare is required or advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Risk Management assessment of all relevant clinical procedures and implementation of controls.
• Quality management and infection control.
• Compiling and management of quality processes in the hospital.
• Managing, reporting, investigation and close out of all quality and environmental incidents and deviations to standards with the multidisciplinary team.
• Measuring performance against quality objectives and coordinating corrective actions.

Skills

Quality assurance

Infection control

Health & safety

Training & development

Risk management

Administration

Education

Diploma in Healthcare Management

Risk management and infection control

Job description

Posted: 2026-11-09, Closing: 2026-11-22

Description

A vacancy exists for a Quality Manager reporting to the Hospital Manager. The successful candidate will form part of the multidisciplinary team ensuring that all our patients receive comprehensive quality nursing care.

Critical Outputs

• Risk Management assessment of all relevant clinical procedures and implementation of controls.
• Quality management and infection control.
• Compiling and management of quality processes in the hospital.
• Managing, reporting, investigation and close out of all quality and environmental incidents and deviations to standards in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team.
• Measuring performance against the quality objectives, evaluating the results and co-ordinate corrective action where necessary, together with the multidisciplinary team.
• Conducting risk assessments on an annual basis, together with multidisciplinary team, in accordance with legal requirements.
• Monitoring and review of hazard/risk management quarterly, together with multidisciplinary team.
• Monitoring and reporting on the effectiveness of actions taken to mitigate/control risk, together with multidisciplinary team.
• Maintaining and updating of risk register.
• Coordinating the hospital Health & Safety Committee meetings.
• Ensuring that all legal appointments are made, staff trained in the requirements of such appointments and legal requirements are adhered to.
• Guiding the Hospital Manager on health and safety related issues to ensure that the legal requirements are adhered to for staff safety.
• Coordination of employee injuries and occupational disease reporting - internally and externally.

Requirements

• Registered with the South African Nursing Council as a Professional Nurse.
• Advantageous - Diploma in Healthcare Management, Risk management and infection control.
• Knowledge and skill in quality assurance, improvement of quality, infection control, health and safety, training and development, risk management and administration.
• At least 3 years’ experience in private healthcare.

• Collaboration/ Relationship Building
• Problem-solving, analysis and judgement
• Verbal & written communication and presentation skills
• Organisational awareness
• Excellence and quality orientation
• Ethical behaviour
• Technical and professional knowledge
• Decision making

Departments

• Nursing

Medicare Private Hospital is an equal opportunity employer, external candidates will also be considered.