Inpatient Team Leader at Avenue Healthcare

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• Provide day-to-day clinical and operational oversight of inpatient services, ensuring timely assessment, investigation, treatment, admission, referral, transfer and discharge of patients. • Coordinate admission and referral processes based on clinical priority, hospital occupancy, bed capacity and resource availability, ensuring appropriate patient placement and optimal bed utilization. • Monitor patient flow indicators, including admission and discharge turnaround times, average length of stay, delayed discharges, referrals, transfers and unplanned ICU/HDU transfers. • Coordinate with Nursing, Theatre, ICU, Pharmacy, Laboratory, Radiology, Infection Prevention and Control and other support departments to ensure seamless patient care. • Conduct and coordinate multidisciplinary ward rounds and facilitate timely implementation of agreed patient management plans. • Identify and resolve operational bottlenecks affecting patient flow and escalate significant capacity, clinical or operational risks to the Medical Services Manager and relevant management teams. • Ensure timely and appropriate investigations, treatment and specialist review for admitted patients. • Manage Discharge Against Medical Advice (DAMA) cases and support financial and clinical risk mitigation in coordination with the Duty Manager and relevant departments. • Support the development and implementation of integrated workflows that improve the overall patient journey and clinical outcomes. • Lead, supervise and performance-manage inpatient Medical Officers, including permanent and locum staff, ensuring optimal deployment, productivity, responsiveness and professional conduct. • Ensure adequate staffing and roster coverage for inpatient medical services in coordination with the Medical Services Manager, Nursing Services Manager, HR, Finance and Operations. • Monitor and manage duty rosters for inpatient Medical Officers and Clinical Coordinators, ensuring appropriate clinical cover at all times. • Coordinate consultant and specialist on-call rosters and ensure availability of appropriate specialist support for inpatient care. • Oversee the internship programme for Medical Officers, including supervision, mentorship, structured learning and assessment. • Support postgraduate medical training rotations by coordinating schedules, learning objectives, supervision and feedback for students from partner universities and training institutions.