Medical Administrator
What the work is
Plans, organises, directs, controls and coordinates medical programs and clinical services in a hospital or other health service facility, maintains standards of medical care, provides leadership to ensure an appropriately skilled medical workforce, and contributes to health service planning.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Determines objectives, strategies and policies for medical programs and clinical services in a hospital or other health service facility
- Provides overall direction and management of medical programs and clinical services to ensure efficient health care delivery
- Authorises material, human and financial resources to implement medical policies and programs
- Monitors and evaluates performance of medical programs and clinical services against objectives and strategies
- Prepares and arranges reports, budgets and forecasts for medical programs and clinical services
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in a fictional residential aged care home with about sixty residents, run by a not-for-profit. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- A resident who had stopped joining in laughs her way through the garden afternoon
- A family writes to say their father was treated like a person and not a patient
- Your care team handles a hard week calmly, and you can tell they trust one another
Hard days
- A family who loves their mother, disagrees with your team and is not wrong about everything
- Funding that does not stretch as far as the care your residents deserve
- A review of the home where every small gap gets written down
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 141333, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.