Medical Doctor at Faircape Group

Role Purpose

• The Medical Officer plays a central role in ensuring medical stability, rehabilitation readiness, and holistic patient care within Faircape’s integrated healthcare and village environment.
• Working closely with Faircape’s own nursing teams, carers, and allied health professionals, the Medical Officer supports safe clinical decision-making, coordinated care planning, and positive functional outcomes for residents and patients.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct daily ward rounds and ongoing clinical reviews of assigned patients
• Manage acute and chronic medical conditions across sub-acute, rehabilitation, and frail care settings
• Complete medical admission assessments, reviews, and discharge planning
• Participate in and provide clinical input during MDT and care planning meetings
• Support rehabilitation readiness and medical optimisation in collaboration with therapists and nursing staff
• Recognise, manage, and escalate clinical deterioration timeously
• Provide appropriate prescribing, medication reconciliation, and monitoring
• Communicate professionally and compassionately with residents and families
• Ensure accurate, same-day electronic documentation using HealthWare
• Support infection control, risk management, and emergency response protocols
• Contribute to internal clinical governance, quality improvement, and best-practice standards

Requirements

Qualifications & Knowledge

• MBChB from an accredited tertiary institution
• Current and active registration with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) as a Medical Practitioner
• CPD compliance

Proven post-community service clinical experience preferred

• Preference will be given to candidates who have experience in inpatient facility medical care or
• Experience in internal medicine

Sound knowledge of:

• Acute and sub-acute medical management - pain diploma encouraged
• Geriatric and frail care principles - geriatrics diploma encouraged
• Rehabilitation medicine and functional recovery concepts
• Management of complex co-morbidities
• Recognition and management of clinical deterioration (e.g. sepsis, delirium, unstable vitals)  - preference given to candidates with ACLS and/or Diploma in primary emergency care
• Palliation - palliation diploma encouraged
• Understanding of ethical, evidence-based clinical practice
• Competence in electronic clinical documentation (HealthWare or similar systems)

Skills and Attributes 

• Strong clinical reasoning and safe decision-making
• Ability to prioritise and manage a mostly stable but varied patient caseload
• Clear and professional written and verbal communication
• Effective collaboration within a multidisciplinary team environment
• Accurate documentation and attention to clinical detail
• Confident escalation and referral when higher-level care is required
• Ability to align clinical decisions with internal protocols and governance frameworks
• Calm and composed under pressure
• Professional, ethical, and accountable in clinical practice
• Respectful and compassionate in interactions with residents, families, and colleagues
• Team-oriented, valuing collaboration over isolated decision-making
• Emotionally mature with good judgement in complex or sensitive situations
• Reliable, consistent, and committed to continuity of care
• Aligned with Faircape’s values of dignity, integrity, and excellence