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Job Location drjobs

Johannesburg - South Africa

Monthly Salary drjobs

Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Job Description

The incumbents role is to be the central player in the Clinical Advisory Services area to identify and ensure that optimal clinical decision making is made on every escalated case. The individual is directly responsible for aligning the teams within the division to fulfil strategic clinical needs within these sectors. Identifying and establishing best practice for effective clinical decision making and to fulfill the role as Head of the Medical Advisors and provide constant guidance and support to the Medical Advisors and to promote the use of Evidence Based Medicine in clinical decision making.
Key Outputs:
The successful applicant will be responsible for but not limited to the following job functions:
To ensure that principles of health economics and rationale resource allocation are incorporated into funding decisions. Constantly challenging and shaping the status quo.
Overseeing the success of the division by liaising with major stakeholders in the business.
Building effective relationships to create strategies and translate these into effective deliverables to ensure successful thereof.
Owning and chairing key forums with participants at an executive level.
Constant interaction with highly strategic thinkers and relationship building on an executive business level.
Developing strategic and operational plans to drive lead and represent all projects and key initiatives impacting the division.
Monitor the implementation of risk management strategies within the Division.
Keeping abreast with legislative and industry changes and how this affects your business units.
Analyzing and problem solving by identifying key issues and relationships from a base of information.
Effective decisionmaking by applying entrepreneurial knowledge and out of the box thinking and weighing up the risks involved.
Providing feedback to the clinical governance forum on a quarterly basis
Constantly remaining updated with medical technology innovation and latest clinical information
Function as direct line manager for the Medical Advisors and Clinical Managers providing all necessary functional and administrative support to direct reports.
Work closely and collaboratively with the Head of Medical and Legal Advisory teams to ensure seamless processes and engagements between the areas.
To monitor performance within the department and ensure that trends are identified and corrective action is taken where necessary
SOPs: Responsible for SOPs related to CAS (these will be signed by individual managers prior to implementation)
Training: to support the Clinical Services department with developing training manuals implementation of all training quality initiatives auditing and reporting includingerror identifying tracking and root cause analysis & trending. Overall responsibility for clinical training done within the Clinical Services department including the identificationof training needs and the implementation of this training.
Audits: Responsible for making comments on all audits and findings and the associated corrective action plans.. Audit report sign off by DM before report goes to DGM
Integration: responsible for ensuring all CS operational and clinical initiatives and integration into broader business strategy and workflow integration to meet all SLArequirements and organizational requirements.
Operations Support: will be responsible for the CS operations meeting data extraction and management and support for the operations executive in preparing for themeeting (agenda minutes & action implementation)
SharePoint: will be responsible for all knowledge management and document handling and repository in CS.
Qualifications & Experience:
The following requirements are essential:
Matric
MBBCH
2 years Clinical Experience
3 years medical advisor or related experience
1 year Stakeholder relationship management experience
Registered with relevant professional body

Required Experience:

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