Management Secretary
Life Healthcare - Westville, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
Closing date yi 13 ka July 2026
Regrettably, this position has been removed.
Purpose
- A vacancy exists for a Secretary at Life Westville Hospital, reporting to the Hospital Manager.
- The successful candidate will be responsible for providing full secretarial and administration support to the Hospital Manager and Management.
- The incumbent will be responsible with liaising with a variety of internal and external stakeholders and will be expected to function at all levels within the management team.
Requirements
- Matric
- A secretarial diploma/ relevant equivalent qualification
- Minimum of 4 years Secretarial / Administration experience
- Extensive knowledge of MS Office
- Healthcare experience will be advantageous
- Ability to work in a pressured & changing environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent interpersonal skills
Skills & Competencies
- Customer excellence
- Performance pride
- Strong interpersonal skills and communication ability
- Resilience
- Ability to work in a team and independently
- Strong conflict management ability
- Attention to detail
- Enthusiastic, self-motivated and shows initiative
- Results driven
- Ethical behaviour
Responsibilities
- Provide full secretarial support to the Hospital Manager which entails typing of all relevant correspondence and statistics, consolidating month end reports, message taking, diary management and setting up of meetings.
- Maintaining and follow up on Doctors HPCSA and insurance certificates
- Process SAP requisitions and generate PO numbers
- Accurate and timeous minute taking and maintaining records of minutes.
- Coordinating the issuing of patient files for legal matters.
- Management of catering arrangements and venue bookings for management functions.
- The ability to critically judge situations that could potentially impact on the reputation of the hospital and facilitate an appropriate escalation response.
- Maintenance of an efficient filing system.
- Coordination and management of travel arrangements.
- Telephonic and face-to-face liaison with doctors, patients, and other key stakeholders in the business and to ensure this is conducted in a professional manner.
- Facilitate complaints from dissatisfied clients who present to the management offices or via a telephonic call, in a positive and professional manner and escalate to relevant management member to address.
- Ad hoc projects and tasks, which arise on a day-to-day basis and provide support to other management members as needed
Additional Information
- Kindly note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
- Applicants who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date of this advert, should consider their application as unsuccessful.
Centre
- Life Westville Hospital
Application Form
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