Chief Advisor Prof Occupational Medicine Practitioner (Re-advert) at Eskom Communications

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Provide clinical occupational medicine services to the region.
• Provide leadership for health and wellness service delivery.
• Develop implementation strategies for occupational health and wellness policies and procedures.
• Monitor health and wellness performance.
• Manage finances.
• Manage the positioning of health and wellness in the region.

Skills and Competencies Required:

Leadership

• Live the Eskom vision
• Grow people
• Ignite passion
• Promote teamwork
• Encourage the right behaviour
• Coaching and consulting
• Engaging and managing key stakeholders in senior positions 

Behavioral 

• Integrity
• Honesty
• Trustworthiness
• Professionalism 

Knowledge 

• Advance knowledge of relevant labour and health legislations (e.g. Occupational Health and Safety Act, No. 85 of 1993).
• Understanding of the health care system and the operational unit environment (province) in which service is provided (e.g. health care delivery models within the province).
• Good understanding of clients (customers) in the business unit (province).
• Advance practical knowledge of primary health care.
• Good understanding of Eskom policies and procedures, Eskom stated benefits, Eskom pension and provident fund.
• Good understanding of Employment Equity Classification (People with disabilities) and social security claims Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act (COIDA).
• Good understanding of Public Finance Management Act (PFMA).
• Advance knowledge of systems, applications and products (SAP) environmental, health and safety (EHS).
• Healthy lifestyle management including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/ acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and tuberculosis (TB) in the workplace.
• Management of sickness, absenteeism and medically incapacitated employees.
• Management of wellness service provider contracts, including eligibility requirements, performance, standards, budget, imitations, scope of service and strength and weakness of the service provider.
• Change management
• Project Management
• Good understanding on how medical aid scheme chronic disease management program’s function. 

Skills 

• Communication, negotiation, presentation and facilitation
• Excellent written communication
• Management and execution of large-scale projects
• Computer literacy
• Conflict management and resolution
• Problem solving
• Analytical
• People management
• Crisis management and debriefing
• Financial management
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Negotiation techniques

Minimum requirements

Qualification(s):

• Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) plus post-graduate qualification in Occupational Medicine NQF8 with 480 credits

Professional Registration: 

• Professional Registration Body: Health Profession Council of South Africa (HPCSA) 

Related Minimum Experience:

• 7 years of Occupational health and primary health care and managerial experience

Apply by: 10 April 2026