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.
The candidate must have appropriate qualification that allows registration with the Health and Professional Council of South Africa (HPCSA) as a psychologist. Current registration with HPCSA as an Independent Psychologist.
Minimum of 3 years appropriate experience as a Clinical Psychologist, after completion of Community Service (1 Year).Experience in the Public Health Sector will serve as an added advantage.
Competencies: Experience in management, Experience in supervision of another Psychologist. Experience in Clinical and Didactic teaching. Academic experience. Experience in the use and supervision of various psychometric assessments. Computer literate.
Duties :
Management of the Psychology department. Human Resource management, finance management, resource management, operational and strategic planning. Ensure compliance with public service legislations, policies, and procedures.
Ability to work as a member of multidisciplinary team. Assist with implementing and monitoring of effective record keeping, accurate statistics collection and analysis and high standards of quality assurance.
Communicate effectively with all staff members, supervisory and various members of the medical team. Evaluation and training. Implement and manage the performance management and Development system within the department. Manage and contribute effectively to staff meeting, team meeting, committee meetings. Represent the department in Provincial and hospital committees.
To provide a clinical service within the treatment’s units of the hospital. Joint appointee of the Department of Psychiatry, University of the Witswaterand. Supervision of Interns, Community Service Psychologists. Teaching of undergraduate students. Promoting, conducting and supervising research projects.
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