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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Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. Appropriate qualification that allows for registration with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) as a Medical Specialist with minimum of five (5) years appropriate experience as a Medical Specialist with extensive and appropriate experience in all aspects - clinical care, teaching, and research.
Certificates of service for all periods of employment. Proven management ability, sound communication (verbal and written) skills, leadership skills, decision making and interpersonal skills.
Proof of current registration with the HPCSA 2025/2026.
Duties :
The Critical Care Department is based at Steve Biko Academic Hospital and affiliated with the University of Pretoria. This joint academic, full-time, permanent appointment requires the Head of Clinical Unit to provide leadership for critical care services across the hospital and academic platforms.
The role includes ensuring high-quality, evidence-based intensive care, strengthening clinical governance, improving patient outcomes, and ensuring adherence to national policies, safety standards, and ICU protocols.
The incumbent will coordinate and support teaching, training, and supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate students, including registrars rotating through ICU, and contribute to departmental research activities.
Duties may include after-hours ICU cover, call duties, and other institutional responsibilities as required.
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