Administration Clerk: Admissions

Overview

Administration clerk needed at Otto Du Plessis Hospital to handle patient admissions, revenue control, reception tasks and medical records functions.

Requirements

• Minimum educational qualification: Senior Certificate or equivalent qualification.
• Experience: Appropriate administrative experience in a health environment with experience with HECTIS and CLINICOM System.
• Inherent requirement of the job: Willingness to work 12-hour shifts (which include night duty, weekends and public holidays) and work overtime on short notice.
• Competencies (knowledge/skills): Knowledge of HECTIS & Clinicom.
• Knowledge of Hospital Fees Memorandum 18 and UPFS.
• Computer literacy (MS Word and Excel) and knowledge of record keeping procedures.
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to accept accountability and responsibility and to work independently and unsupervised.

Duties

• Registration and capturing of patient information.
• Responsible for revenue control which includes receipt of money, issue of accounts and safekeeping of patient’s valuables.
• Reception tasks attend patient queries and folder management.
• Medical records functions: Keep record, file, retrieve folders, trace old folders, destruct folders and compile new folders.
• Effective assistance and support to supervisor, colleagues and other institutions.

How to apply

Applications are submitted online via www.westerncape.gov.za/health-jobs (click “online applications”).

Enquiries: Ms S Laubscher Tel No: (028) 424-1167

Notes

No payment of any kind is required when applying for this post. Candidates will be required to undergo a practical assessment. It will be expected of candidates to be available for selection interviews on a date, time and place as determined by the Department. Kindly note that excess personnel will receive preference. All shortlisted candidates, including the SMS, shall undertake two pre-entry assessments. One will be a practical exercise to determine a candidate’s suitability based on the post’s technical and generic requirements and the other must be an integrity (ethical conduct) assessment. ERRATUM: Kindly note that the advert for the Post 28/215: Assistant Director: Expenditure Analysis and Management Reporting, Salary R487 197 per annum, Centre: Head Office (Cape Town) advertised in the Public Service Vacancy 28 dated 07 August 2026 with Ref No: 28/215. Kindly note that the post has been cancelled. OTHER POSTS