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Palliative Care Manager
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We require the services of a Palliative Care Manager to provide clinical programme leadership to the Palliative Care Services clinical team ensuring service excellence to patients and their families.
ENTRY LEVEL QUALIFICATION, KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
- Tertiary education qualification in Nursing.
- Postgraduate training in Palliative Care will be advantageous.
- A minimum of 5 years' experience in a health management environment
- Registration with a recognized professional body: SANC.
- Proven advanced stock management ability.
- Fluency in two of the official languages of the Western Cape will be advantageous.
- Proven team leadership capabilities.
- Proven advanced administrative ability.
- Advanced computer literacy with experience in MS Office (Word, Excel and Outlook).
- Ability to work independently and be a self-starter.
- Unendorsed driver's license.
KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS
- Provide leadership ensuring that professional and clinical standards are maintained of the highest quality.
- Manage all activities required to drive the achievement of goals within Palliative Care Services community teams.
- Meet Palliative Care Services reporting requirements; coordinating and consolidating all community programme reports for sharing with key stakeholder audiences.
- Provide oversight to clinical care record systems ensuring records are accurate and up to date at all times, and stored securely.
- Work collaboratively with the entire Palliative Care Services team through active participation in departmental budget processes.
- Provide oversight towards the execution of departmental administrative activities.
- Identify gaps in staff competencies within the Palliative Care Services community team and facilitate acquisition of the requisite knowledge and skills upgrades across the department.
- Serve as Liaison between SLCH and the Community Hospices thus ensuring all parties are kept in the loop on all pertinent activities.
- Facilitate people development.
- Manage staff performance and adherence to policies and procedures within codes of conduct.
- Perform ad-hoc and other tasks as requested by HOD: Palliative Care Services and relief as and when required in the event of staff shortages.
- Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES
- Organisational awareness.
- Resilience and stress management.
- Interpersonal sensitivity.
- Professional maturity.
- Relationship building/partnering.
- Excellence orientation.
- Action orientation.
- Planning and organising.
- Judgement and decision making.
- Monitoring.
- Teamwork.
- Engaging diversity.
- Developing people.
SCREENING PROCEDURE
All applicants are expected to provide or avail themselves for:
- A Curriculum Vitae (with dates and reasons for leaving).
- Other proficiency assessments to assess competence in areas required, inclusive of a panel interview.
- Copies of Certificates, Degrees, Registrations, etc.
WE HOLD OUR HEADS HIGH WITH THE FOLLOWING BENEFITS:
- Better than Basic Condition of Employment leave benefits, and study leave that exceeds comparative benefits of other organisations.
- NPO market-related remuneration.
- A contributory Pension Fund that includes Group Life Insurance, Disability- and Funeral Cover.
- Preferential working hours of 08h00 to 16h00 Monday to Friday, with exception of roles that expect after-hours deliverables such as this role.
- Competency-based development opportunities.
- Free access to an Employee Wellness Program managed by Company Wellness Solutions, offering 24/7/365 Telephone Counselling, access to Legal, Financial, Family Care, Psychosocial, and Health specialists, Face-2-Face- and trauma Counselling.
Closing date: COB Monday, 13 October 2025. All applications received within the time frames will be considered. Applicants who do not receive a response on their application within 5 working days of the closing date of the advertisement, are to accede that the application was not successful. Please forward your application to , citing the reference number top left and job title of vacancy.
On behalf of Management, we wish you well in your application and future endeavours
Job Type: Full-time
Work Location: In person
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