East London: Medical Services Support Manager posted by Abantu Staffing Solutions
Posted on 2025-05-21 00:00:00
Employer | Abantu Staffing Solutions |
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Category | Other IT/Computer |
Location | Eastern Cape / East London |
Job Summary
Position description / overview:
- A vacancy exists for a Medical Support Services Manager based in East London, and reporting to the Practice Manager. The successful candidate will be responsible for the overall management of the Support Department, encompassing patient bookings, reception, reporting, authorisations, porters, drivers, and Ultrasound Assistants at all branches (5). The successful candidate will also be expected to work closely with the Doctors, managing their weekly duty roster. The successful candidate is expected to contribute a great deal to the effectiveness of the company in identifying methods of improvement of service, suggesting strategies and approaches, and in measuring the results of all of the efforts.
Minimum Requirements / Experience:
- Grade 12 / Matric
- Completed tertiary qualification (NQF 6 or higher) – Accounting, Finance, Radiology, Nursing, HR, Management or relevant to experience
- Relevant private healthcare industry experience
- Proven leadership, change and people management experience
- Understanding of the private healthcare industry, its challenges and role players (highly advantageous)
- Understanding of relevant and current legislation (highly advantageous)
- Knowledge or ability to learn medical and radiology related terminology, technical and clinical concepts and patient services business processes (highly advantageous)
- Experience working in a flexible, employee empowering work environment in a small to medium-sized company.
- Computer proficiency
- Drivers license, own transport and ability to travel to other branches and locations, when required
Responsibilities:
Ensure effective quality management and customer care by:
- Monitoring and improving quality metrics
- Managing data integrity and compliance to the organisations working procedures
- Developing and maintaining relationships with stakeholders
Ensure effective interpretation & application of contracts and funder rules by:
- Managing the bookings, authorizations and reception department to ensure that they comply with the funder rules
- Managing of do not arrive patients and communication and reminders of patient bookings
- Managing the collection of outstanding co-payments from patients
Facilitating effective cash flow management by:
- Implementing cash management processes to prevent losses
Governance and risk management:
- Preparing and ensuring sound audit compliances to achieve optimum business ethics
- Participating and developing action plans within the risk management teams to appropriate the correct controls
- Support tip-off investigations
Operational:
- Co-ordinating day-to-day operations within various departments
- Managing the support department at the respective branches
- Ensuring smooth workflow and patient allocation for radiographers and radiologists
- Liaising with patients and patient families
- Monitoring productivity and efficiency in the department
- Management of complaints
- Efficient communication within the departments and with radiologists, referring doctors and patients
- Compiling and producing Radiologists duty roster
- Providing support and training to new sites acquired by the New Business division when required
Ensure effective people management by:
- Demonstrating visible leadership skills in respect of the organisations values, operating models and strategies in order to support diversity and transformation
- Actively leading meetings and ensure participation of all members in order to ensure ISO compliance
- Ensuring quality staff members are recruited to fill approved vacancies in accordance with the companys transformation objectives
- Providing direction and inspiration to ensure staff are motivated and productive
- Managing and reviewing training plans that are compliant to the organisations WSP requirements in order to enable talent development
- Managing the performance of staff through the performance improvement process
- Ensuring all transactional processing is complete in order to provide employee compensation and benefits
- Ensuring productive working relationships are supported with minimum IR issues
- Ensuring all exit interviews are conducted in order to ensure the retention of staff
- Managing people in a manner that respects diversity and ensures a fair work-life balance to ensure employee wellness
Competencies / Skills:
- Problem-solving, analysis and judgement
- Resilience
- Engaging diversity
- Verbal & written communication and presentation
- Strong effective communicator
- Highly developed, demonstrated teamwork skills
- Ability to coordinate the efforts of a large team of diverse employees
- Demonstrated ability to increase productivity and continuously improve methods, approaches, and departmental contribution. Commitment to continuous learning
- HR related activities e.g. overtime for payroll, Kronos, appointing staff and numerous HR related issues
- Fully computer literate with well-developed skills in email and MS Office suite of programmes
- Demonstrated ability to see the big picture and provide useful advice and input across the company
- Ability to lead in an environment of constant change
- To compile monthly Reports to Manco and as and when required or needed
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