AFRO-NETS> RFI: Hospital Administrator's Job Description (2)

[Howard Lyons <howardlyons@msn.com>]

RFI: Hospital Administrator's Job Description (2)
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Where do you start?! Who is the hospital administrator accountable 
to? How does the position fit into the organisation chart? What is 
he/she responsible for - staff functions, budgets, policy and proce-
dure formulation, upkeep of buildings, capital and service planning? 
What are the limits of his/her responsibilities e.g. expenditure lev-
els, hire-and-fire, health and safety, fire, flood and major inci-
dents, public relations, corporate governance, forward planning etc? 
What committees is he/she a member of and what role (chair, secre-
tary, in attendance etc)? And lots more.........

Then come the minor points: hours of work, on-call responsibilities, 
office location, secretarial support etc.

If you can answer some of these questions, I can certainly help you 
to produce a Job Description although you'll probably find you've 
produced the framework by answering these questions.

A bigger question which you might be tempted to address and which 
tends to preoccupy hospital managers, nurses and doctors in develop-
ing countries (and in developed countries too!) is: should the final 
authority in a hospital (below the Board) be a very experienced and 
senior doctor with a penchant for administration or a professionally-
trained manager (nurse, doctor or so-called 'administrator')? 

Howard Lyons
London International Healthcare
mailto:howard@lyons.co.uk 
http://www.london-healthcare.co.uk

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