Description:

Job Profile

Health Care Manager is responsible for the strategic, financial and day-to-day running of hospital/community health services to ensure that healthcare facilities provide the most effective patient care.

Responsibilities

• Understanding the financial background of the office
• Marketing or handling public relations
• Creating procedures for dealing with patients
• Managing clinical, professional, clerical and administrative staff
• Managing the recruitment, selection, appraisal and development of staff
• Overseeing the day-to-day management of an organisation
• Implementing new policies and directives
• Liaising and negotiating with medical and non-medical staff internally (often at the most senior levels) and with people in external organisations, e.g. social services, voluntary groups or the private sector
• Gathering and analysing data and using it to plan and manage both projects and systems
• Working towards ensuring quality and value for money for patients
• Extrapolating data for quality assurance and monitoring purposes
• Setting budgets and maintaining finances within tight constraints
• Planning and implementing strategic changes to improve service delivery
• Attending meetings, writing reports and delivering presentations to a variety of audiences; clinical governance and audit
• Sitting on committees and representing the views of departments and teams
• Handling communications and corporate affairs
• Purchasing equipment and supplies and organising stores

Requirements

• At least Bachelor's degree in Public Heath and Administration, Hospital Management or any other related field
• Master's degree will be an added advantage
  
• Minimum five (5) years work experience in the same the role
• Should have strong communication, technical and analytical skills
• Must also be detail oriented

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