Risk Reviewer at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose

The focus of the role will be to assist with management, tracking and developing innovation risk initiatives relevant for Medical and Surgical devices within the Surgical Risk management team. The role involves exposure to a wide range of areas such as hospital contracting, claims, legal, finance and wider operations.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:

The jobholder’s responsibilities will include, but not be limited to, the following key activities:

• Development of novel risk-sharing mechanisms with key stakeholders in the surgical and medical device industries.
• Surgical inflation management and root cause analysis for rising medical and surgical device spending.
• Management of existing and new contracts with medical device suppliers
• Review the funding of medical and surgical equipment in line with the scheme rules.
• Ability to support operational teams within the Discovery Group regarding medical device queries.
• Managing relationships with internal and external industry stakeholders
• Ability to identify and classify different categories of medical devices.

Personal Attributes and Skills

The successful candidate must demonstrate the following skills and abilities:

• Able to use technical and business knowledge to understand the management of medical and surgical device spend and develop models to effectively manage medical and surgical inflation.
• Self-starter with a strong drive for excellence
• Strategic thinker
• Exceptional analytical skills
• Management and leadership skills
• Able to interpret, rationalise, and communicate the results of own work.
• Ability to communicate efficiently and effectively with business at all levels, both verbally and in writing.
• Delivers work required on time and to a high standard with minimal rework.
• Good team player, able to work with other team members and independently to deliver the objectives of the team.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Health related qualification
• Nursing or theatre experience Advantageous
• Knowledge of medical and surgical devices - Advantageous
• Risk Management skill or experience - Advantageous
• Surgical Device industry experience - Advantageous
• Advantageous - 12 months or more experience within Discovery Health Clinical Departments
• Advantageous - Basic Knowledge of Discovery Health Product and Protocols