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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MBChB, appropriate qualification that allows registration with the HPCSA as Medical Practitioner, HPCSA registration as an independent medical practitioner and must be post Community Service. Preference will be given to those who have completed Part 1 of the FCRad examination.
Duties :
The incumbent will be responsible to interview, investigate, diagnose and oversee the treatment of patient related administrative duties, participating in all activities of the discipline in relation to teaching, participating in departmental audit activates, preparing and writing of reports, liaison and communication services and community liaison.
Supervising junior doctors is required (undergraduate students, interns and community service doctors). Performance of commuted overtime may be requested. Attendance of relevant administrative meeting like multi-disciplinary team meetings, near miss meeting and completing MEDICO Legal Documents timeously (e.g. Death certificate) is required.
Improve quality of care by providing appropriate clinical care. Reduce medical litigation by exercising good clinical ethos. Implement and monitor adherence to National Core Standards (norms and standards). Participate in multidisciplinary team to the management of patients. Performance of practical procedures relevant to the care of patients.
Participation in departmental meetings, journal clubs, case presentations, lectures and ward rounds. Ensure that administration and record keeping is done in the department. Rendering of after-hour (night, weekend and public holiday) duties to provide continuous uninterrupted care of patients.
Medical Officers will inter alia be responsible for rendering of clinical services, assessment and treatment of patients. Medical Officers will be rotated through related departments in the hospitals. Medical Officers will also be expected to rotate to Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital.
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