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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Grade 12 and with MBCHB qualification and Postgraduate degrees in Public Health Medicine (MMed PHM & FCPHM) qualifications with the implied competencies. Current registration with the HPCSA as a Public Health Medicine specialist.
Note: This will be a joint academic appointment with department of Community Medicine at the School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, and/or University of Pretoria; starting at the level of Lecturer and based on university criteria. Reporting will be to the current service and academic head of the public health unit in Ekurhuleni.
Duties :
Includes, but not limited to education, training and research activities (including clinical audits), supervision and examination of medical students and registrars in the Public Health Medicine specialty and in the service platform. Conduct own research and participate in district research committee, including chairing, reviewing of research protocols, building own and other research capacity, organizing annual district research conference and other related activities.
Function and lead a multi-disciplinary team in the district in various activities related to health system strengthening broadly, including developing the sub districts, health programme support, improving population health outcome, disease control, health education and health promotion related activities.
Train and teach district staff and other stakeholders when required. Membership and participation in relevant committees, task teams and projects at various levels in the health system. A comprehensive job description and annual performance management contract in line with the post scope and district requirements will be signed annually.
It must be noted that commuted overtime is not automatically associated with this post, however the successful candidate can explore and fill gaps in clinical commuted overtime in the primary health care and hospital services within the Ekurhuleni Health District, for which a separate annual contract will be signed with the relevant district facility.
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