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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Medical Specialist Grade 1 - 3 Public Health Medicine
Senior/National Senior Certificate (Grade 12) and MBChB or equivalent certificate, MMed [Public Health Medicine] or FCPHM [SA] or equivalent. Registration with the Health Professions Council of South Africa for Independent Practice [Medical Specialist].
Medical Specialist Grade 1 none experience after registration with HPCSA, Medical Specialist
Grade 2 - A minimum of 05 years experience after registration with HPCSA and Medical Specialist
Grade 3 - A minimum of 10 years experience after registration with HPCSA in a normal Speciality.
Proof of current registration with the HPCSA from 01 April 2025 to 31 March 2026.
Additional qualifications such as Postgraduate/Docoral qualification [such as DoH, DTMH, or PhD/DMed] five years experience of working as Medical Specialist in public hospital or district health system, research: Publication in accedired journal, conference presentation; teaching: experience in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, coordination and curriculum development will be an added advantage.
Duties :
Work within Steve Biko Academic Hospital and its cluster health facilities as a Public Health Medicine Specialist: Support public health medicine programmes of the Department including clinical work
Participate in site-specific work-related activities which may include contacts with patients and conducting overtime; This appointment is on joint Gauteng Department of health and University of Pretoria medical establishment and thus the incumbent will have teaching and training duties.
Furthermore, all academic appointees are expected to engage in active research.