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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Appropriate qualification that allows registration with the HPCSA as a Medical Practitioner. Must be a South African citizen or permanent resident.
At least one-year experience as a Medical Officer post-community service (for South African qualified) or three-years’ experience post internship (for foreign qualified) applicants, preferably in primary care setting.
Registrars will be based in the district training platforms and jointly appointed between West Rand Health district and the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS).
Duties :
Provide medical care including interviewing, investigating, diagnosing and managing patients, Rotate through all service points in the service and training platforms – clinics, hospitals, community-based services and community-oriented primary care platforms in district and WITS.
Participate in all clinical, academic and professional activities of the family medicine discipline, including teaching and research, clinical audits, preparing and writing of reports.
Supervise clinical associates, undergraduate medical students, medical interns, community service doctors and medical officers.
Reduce medical litigation by exercising good clinical ethos and implementing and monitoring adherence to National Core Standards (norms and standards).
Ensure that record keeping is done for all clinical work and complete medico-legal documents timeously e.g., Sick notes, admission discharges and death certificate.
Attend relevant clinical, administrative and academic meetings such as mortality and morbidity review, and nearmiss meetings, departmental meetings, journal clubs, case presentations, lectures and ward? rounds, both at the district and at Wits (as necessary). Participate in the multidisciplinary healthcare teams for the management of patients.
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