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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Matric Certificate with an Appropriate qualification that allows registration with the HPCSA as a Medical Practitioner.
HPCSA registration as a Medical Practitioner, and must be post-Community Service.
Current registration with HPCSA (2025/2026).
Additional clinical qualifications will be advantageous.
Duties :
The incumbent will be responsible for interviewing, investigating, diagnosing, and overseeing patient-related administrative duties, as well as treating patients. Supervising junior doctors: undergraduate students, interns, and community service doctors.
Attendance at Patient Safety Incident meetings where necessary and completing Medico Legal Documents timeously (e.g., Death certificates, medical forms, injury on duty, and J88 forms). Enhance the quality of care by delivering targeted clinical interventions.
Reduce medical litigation by exercising good clinical ethos. Implement and monitor adherence to the Ideal Hospital Framework and Office of Health Standards Compliance requirements.
Participate in a multidisciplinary team in the management of patients. Participation in the accident and emergency department and/or outpatient department and ward consultations.
Ensure that administration and proper record-keeping are done in the allocated clinical Department. Participate in compulsory commuted overtime duties by rendering after-hour (night, weekend, and public holiday) duties to provide continuous, uninterrupted care of patients.
Medical officers will, inter alia, be responsible for rendering clinical services, assessing, and treating patients.