The Department of Health aims to provide quality health services and ensure a caring climate for service users, implement best-practice health care strategies, create a positive work environment for staff, and provide appropriate and top-quality training for health workers. Our vision is to provide high-quality, efficient and accessible healthcare to transform people's lives. Our mission is to create an effective public healthcare system in Gauteng by ensuring we have the right people, skills, system and equipment to provide the care our patients need to live healthy and quality lives.
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An appropriate qualification that allows registration with the HPCSA as a medical Physicist, Registration with the HPCSA as a Medical Physicist, no experience needed after registration with the HPCSA as a Medical Physicist. Computer literacy.
Good communication skills (ability to communicate well with people at different levels and backgrounds). Sound Organization skills. Good interpersonal skills. Must be able to work under pressure and to take initiative. Organising and planning skills.
Duties :
Review of radiation safety procedures to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. Provide training to radiation employees in all radiation protection protocols. Review of personnel radiation exposure and preparation of over-exposure reports as required by DoH:RC/SAHPRA.
Monitor patient radiation doses: diagnostic reference levels (DRLs). Prevents radiation incidences in diagnostic radiology department. Acquisition and administering of personnel radiation monitoring devices (e.g. radiation dosimeters such TLD badges & audible/alarm dosimeters).
Perform calculation and inspection of the facility shielding as required in accordance with the national regulations. Acts on behalf of license holders in taking full responsibility for the entire scope of radiation protection.
Develop and directs quality control programs to ensure safety procedures, better image quality, identification of the sources of uncertainty as well as the compliance with regulations.
Perform acceptance testing of the newly installed imaging systems to verify the specifications provided by the vendor. Implementation of a regular quality control programme to guarantee safety of both staff and patients.
Ensures that all the activity measuring instruments (radionuclide calibrators and survey meters) are calibrated against the national standard. Reviews documentation which includes procedure manuals and policy documents.
Ensures that the correct activity which is measured with a radionuclide calibrator is administered to patients. Monitors the administration of radioactivity sources (in case of I-131 and Lu-177) to patients for therapeutic procedures. Performs the measurement of the sensitivity of gamma cameras/SPECT scanners prior for the estimation of the activity/counts to be performed.
Provide support to Radiography, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Radiotherapy, Oncology and other institutions in the cluster. Evaluates all the facilities and procedures in terms of occupational or public safety by performing radiation survey.
Participates in drafting/writing specifications prior to purchasing of a new radionuclide calibrator and/or any imaging system. The employee will be required to work long hours in line with the operational needs of the department.
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