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.
Medical Specialist Grade 1/2/3 Intensive Care Unit
Appropriate qualification that allows registration with the HPCSA as Medical Specialist in a Intensive Care Unit.Registration with the HPCSA as Medical Specialist in a normal specialty. Current registration with HPCSA for 2024/2025 .
For Grade1. 0- 5 years’ experience as Medical Specialist.
For Grade 2. 5-10 years’ experience as Medical Specialist.
Grade 3: 10 years and above as Medical Specialist
Skills/Competence/Knowledge:
Ability to establish excellent working relationships with anaesthetic team, emergency unit and other clinical departments. Good leadership skills, excellent communication (verbal and written) skills, conflict resolution and good interpersonal skills.
The successful candidate must be adaptable, disciplined and self-confident. The candidate must be able to work independently and under pressure and beyond normal working hours and work with diverse team.
Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team. Knowledge of legislation, policies and procedure pertaining to health care users. Computer Literacy The successful candidate must be adaptable, disciplined and self-confident.
Duties :
Administrative duties within the Department of Intensive Care. Delivery of clinical services to critically ill patients. Foster and co-ordinate a multidisciplinary approach to the management of critically ill patients.
Co-ordinating logistics of ordering and obtaining equipment and pharmaceuticals 4Involvement in hospital committees and liaison with other departments within the hospital. Participate in the functions of the Critical Care Society of Southern Africa that governs the development and management of Intensive Care in South Africa.
Staff training theoretical and skills performance of junior doctors and allied medical disciplines at Tertiary and referring hospitals. Development and ongoing provision of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and assessment.
Policy development and implementation. Provision of clinical support and outreach programs.
To participate, support and promote research relevant to Critical Care Medicine. Ability to initiate and conduct research will be an advantage. Be a role model for students and staff. Participate in all divisional, departmental and faculty meetings in order to facilitate effective teaching and research as well as to enhance continuing professional development. Perform duties assigned by the Head of Department of Health. Maintain quality assurance standards and other Departmental policies.
To assist in teaching programme of both undergraduates and postgraduates. Attend meetings and training as approved by HOU. Comply with the Performance Management and Development System (contracting, quarterly reviews and final assessment.
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