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Netcare

Integrated private healthcare services provider

Unit Manager - Trauma ICU

Medical, Clinical & VeterinaryConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeAlberton, South AfricaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Grade 12 or equivalent NQF level 4 qualification is required.
  • A General Nurse with Midwifery qualification is required.
  • Registration with the South African Nursing Council as a Registered Nurse is required.
  • Compliance with the South African Nursing Council code for a Registered Nurse and all applicable healthcare legislation is required.
  • A Diploma in Critical Care Nursing – General is required.
  • A Nursing Management Qualification is required.
  • A minimum of 4 to 6 years of ICU experience is required.
  • Intermediate computer proficiency is required.
  • At least 2 years of experience in a private hospital setting is required.
  • At least 2 years of experience in clinical leadership is required.
  • Sound financial knowledge and the ability to interpret financial data are required.
  • The incumbent must maintain professional knowledge and skills, keep up to date with Netcare policies and procedures, and keep abreast of current research in the applicable discipline.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate improved quality nursing care by ensuring compliance with professional and ethical practice.
  • Monitor and ensure nursing care and service delivery are implemented and practiced within a multidisciplinary quality assurance team.
  • Coordinate capacity building, mentoring, and training.
  • Manage acuities and skill mix to ensure cost-effective quality care.
  • Manage costs emanating from the department.
  • Ensure correct billing, stock management, and purchasing.
  • Facilitate timely and accurate compilation of files.
  • Identify quality improvement opportunities and ensure appropriate strategies and quality improvement initiatives are developed and measured.
  • Investigate negative incidents and ensure appropriate recording on IMS.
  • Monitor safety standards in accordance with the Machine and Occupational Safety Act (Act 6 of 1983), and report accidents to the Line Manager or Safety Representatives.
  • Ensure compliance with protocols, policies, and Acts.
  • Ensure equipment is in working order and properly maintained, and control the asset register.
  • Ensure the unit provides safe, cost-effective quality patient care aligned with the Clinical Governance strategy and evidence-based practice.
  • Evaluate patients’ journeys through patient experience and stakeholder input.
  • Evaluate nursing quality indicators and clinical outcomes.
  • Communicate effectively with patients about their care.
  • Promote the health and wellbeing of patients and staff.
  • Ensure adherence to infection prevention principles and standard precautions, and implement group quality initiatives.
  • Ensure achievement of transformation goals set by the Transformation Committee.
  • Participate as a team member to achieve goals.
  • Create an environment in which staff understand their roles in providing quality nursing care and their value to the organization.
  • Assign decision-making authority, tasks, and responsibilities to appropriate staff to maximize organizational and employee effectiveness.
  • Develop a talented nursing workforce.
  • Cooperate with the Netcare Education Division to ensure appropriate nursing training for quality care delivery.
  • Facilitate a culture supportive of talent management and implement initiatives to develop nursing talent.
  • Monitor staff attendance and absenteeism and ensure appropriate action is taken.
  • Enforce staff dress code within and when leaving the hospital.
  • Facilitate effective change and conflict management.
  • Orient new staff and students.
  • Facilitate staff development, both personal and professional.
  • Coach and mentor staff.
  • Ensure professional conduct and appearance of staff.
  • Promote employee wellbeing.
  • Build and maintain stakeholder relationships, including with doctors, nursing staff, suppliers, and patients.
  • Develop collaborative relationships to accomplish work goals and establish mutually beneficial working relationships.
  • Maintain customer relationships and patient loyalty.
  • Build strategic interdepartmental relationships to achieve business goals at executive and departmental levels within the hospitals.
  • Foster effective working relationships with service providers and Public Liability.

About the Company

Netcare

Integrated private healthcare services provider

Netcare is a broad private healthcare group in South Africa that provides a full range of medical services across the care spectrum. Its offering includes world-class acute private hospital care, cancer care (radiosurgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, bone marrow transplant, robotic-assisted surgery), primary healthcare through Medicross, emergency medical services via Netcare 911, occupational health and employee wellness, mental health services through Akeso, affordable access solutions through NetcarePlus, and renal dialysis through National Renal Care. The company also trains emergency medical and nursing personnel. Netcare aims to improve healthcare by integrating digital systems to deliver seamless, connected care across its hospitals, clinics, EMS, and support services, with the goal of making high-quality private healthcare more accessible and efficient.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Sandton, South Africa
Founded
1996

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