Faircape Health Tokai Estate is a Sub Acute Care and Rehabilitation Centre which provides restorative care and rehabilitation for patients recovering from a variety of medical conditions that include Neurological, Orthopaedic, Surgical and Respite. At Tokai Healthcare, the focus is mainly on acute conditions that immediately affect patients’ rehabilitation progress.

Our world-class care aims to bridge the gap between hospital and home. Our Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) of leading healthcare professionals administers care in the most therapeutic environment possible and supports healing outcomes in all aspects.

We are seeking a Family Physician to co-lead the team of medical officers in conjunction with the current Family Physician.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Provide comprehensive medical care and management of patients transitioning from hospital to home, focusing on rehabilitation and recovery.
• Conduct thorough patient assessments, including reviewing medical histories, performing physical exams, and diagnosing medical conditions.
• Develop and implement individualised care plans in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team, including nurses, therapists, and specialists.
• Monitor patient progress and adjust treatment plans as needed to promote optimal recovery and health outcomes.
• Oversee medication management, ensuring appropriate prescriptions, dosages, and monitoring for potential side effects or interactions.
• Provide ongoing education to patients and families regarding diagnoses, treatment plans, and long-term care strategies.
• Helping to start an outpatient department to follow-up patients who are discharged from Faircape Tokai.
• Providing advice to other medical officers on patients they are managing.
• Reviewing incident reports (e.g. where a patient deteriorated) and assisting with monthly morbidity and mortality meetings.
• Assisting with audits to ensure most up-to-date evidence-based medicine is practised.
• Assisting with infection control meetings and antimicrobial stewardship.
• Drawing up and organising weekend call rosters and distributing the relevant notice to staff members.
• Assisting with recruitment of new medical officers / locums and probationary reviews of new doctors.
• Managing orientation of new medical officers.
• Ensure that regular clinical excellence reviews of permanent medical officers are performed.
• Giving input where needed to medical/nursing guidelines and procedures.
• Assisting to coordinate weekly academic talks with the doctor team.

Requirements:

• Family medicine accreditation with HPCSA.
• MPS / insurance membership and active HPCSA registration.
• Experience and interest in internal medicine, geriatrics, and palliative care is beneficial.
• Experience in private healthcare is beneficial.
• Willing to work within a multidisciplinary and nursing team environment.

Skills and Attributes:

• Ethical Practice: Adherence to medical ethics, maintaining patient confidentiality, and making decisions in the patient’s best interest.
• Effectively manage your own time, workload and effectively collaborate with the MDT team.
• Dependable, responsible
• Patient-Centred Care: Ability to prioritise patient needs and provide compassionate, empathetic care.
• Excellent communication skills by effective communication with patients, families, and colleagues, including listening attentively and explaining medical information clearly.
• Proficient in diagnosing a wide range of medical conditions based on symptoms, medical history, and diagnostic tests.
• Ability to make sound clinical decisions, based on thorough assessment and analysis.
• Problem-Solving skills by having the ability to address complex medical issues, considering multiple factors to reach optimal treatment plans.
• Ethical practice by adherence to medical ethics, maintaining patient confidentiality, and making decisions in the patient’s best interest.
• Commitment to excellence to ensure the goals of the clinical team are met.

Specific Requirements:

• Clear criminal record.
• Written references.
• Hepatitis B vaccination.
• Clear health record.

Institution: Division of Family Medicine, Department of Family, Community and Emergency Care [Faculty of Health Sciences]

The Division of Family Medicine seeks to invite applications for the above permanent full-time position. This permanent post (academic clinical pay line; medical specialist in family medicine) will strengthen our team and provide a suitable candidate with an opportunity to pursue a full-time scholarly role in family medicine and primary care. This position aims to develop and coordinate the Saldanha Bay sub-district (West Coast District) as a distributed interprofessional teaching and learning platform for UCT health sciences undergraduate and postgraduate students. While this is not a joint post, the incumbent will closely partner with the sub-district and district clinical and managerial team in the Western Cape Department of Health and Wellness. The post is based in Vredenburg, Saldanha Bay sub-district.

Requirements:

• Registration and in good standing with the HPCSA as an Independent Medical Practitioner and as a Medical Specialist (Family Medicine).
• MBChB with a postgraduate qualification in family medicine: MMed in Family Medicine and FCFP(SA).
• The minimum experience includes five years of post-community service in diagnostic clinical practice (at the primary care level) in the public or private healthcare sectors.
• Two years of clinical teaching, learning and supervision experience with undergraduate and/or postgraduate students.
• One year of formal academic teaching, learning and assessment experience with undergraduate and/or postgraduate students at a higher education institution.
• Familiarity with the South African healthcare system.
• Ability to work independently and in a team.
• Organisational ability, planning and effective time management.
• Computer skills related to Microsoft Office 365.
• A valid driver’s license.

Advantages:

• A postgraduate qualification in health sciences education will be advantageous.
• Clinical experience and demonstrable training in palliative care.
• Experience in research and postgraduate research supervision.
• Experience in participating in and leading community-orientated primary care projects in partnership with community stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

The scope of responsibility for this position includes:
• Develop and deliver teaching, learning, and assessment activities for undergraduate and postgraduate health sciences students in the West Coast District, specifically in family medicine, primary care, and palliative care.
• Coordinate and manage teaching and educational activities in the sub-district, specifically interprofessional teaching/learning activities for UCT undergraduate students from all health sciences programmes.
• Initiate, participate in and supervise relevant research activities under the guidance of the Division of Family Medicine in partnership with the Division of Interdisciplinary Palliative Care and Medicine in the Department of Family, Community and Emergency Care (FaCE).
• Develop and sustain appropriate relationships with all relevant role-players and stakeholders, including relevant personnel at the Vredenburg District Hospital, the Saldanha Bay sub-district and the West Coast district, as well as NGOs and local private practitioners.
• Participate in faculty activities such as staff meetings, development activities, strategic planning, and administrative meetings. Represent the faculty on the relevant district health administrative structures (such as the Saldanha Bay Sub-district Joint Task Team).
• Support clinical governance and clinical service responsibilities as designated by the sub-district management team, including community-orientated primary care projects and activities.

The incumbent will report to the head of the division and work closely with course convenors in the department.
For detailed information on this post, please view the job description on the following link: (View)
The appointment will be on UCT Academic Clinical conditions of service. The annual cost of employment, including benefits will be based on the University’s clinical pay line which is aligned to OSD rates.

Institution:  Missionvale Campus Nelson Mandela University

Nelson Mandela university is a dynamic African university offering an innovative Health Sciences Education model aimed at addressing South African healthcare and has established the country’s tenth medical school on its Missionvale Campus. The Medical Programme offers a community embedded, primary healthcare training approach that is focused on producing high quality, collaborative and innovative medical doctors. The University is seeking healthcare professionals who embrace this kind of teaching and the values of Nelson Mandela, who are committed to living his legacy in creating a more equal and just society for all. This will be a joint appointment with the Eastern Cape Department of Health with academic and clinical responsibilities.

Key performance areas:

• Strategy development and execution for the Department

• Academic, clinical, and administrative leadership of the Department

• Lead curriculum and programme development for the discipline in collaboration with the medical education unit and contribute to the core functions of the university through serving on faculty and university structures as delegated
by the Executive Dean

• Lead research, including research supervision and community engagement in the Department

• Promote and undertake teaching and training across all levels of students or junior colleagues (undergraduate medical students, medical interns, medical officers, and postgraduate students) including coordination, assessments, etc

• Participate in interprofessional education and collaboration pertaining to the health personnel and allied health disciplines

• Manage human resources in the Department and ensure optimal level of skills and competencies of all staff, including sessional medical practitioners, within the Department

• Manage the financial, physical, and other resources in the Department

• Manage the marketing, liaison, and engagement of the Department

• Manage the academic administrative functions within the Department in collaboration with Academic Administration

• Enhance mission and vision of the Faculty and University and ensure transformation initiatives are met

• Contribute to strengthening of the clinical health services platform, with a focus on regional and national health challenges.

Core competencies:

• Expert knowledge, clinical and research skills in the relevant discipline

• Extensive experience in facilitating learning and teaching

• Comprehensive managerial and leadership skills and competencies to head an academic Department

• Problem-solving, decision making and conflict-management proficiencies

• The ability to work under stress and always maintain a good working relationship

• Strong people management skills

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including ability to work in a team

• Sound knowledge of human resource management, including disciplinary and grievance management procedures

• Thorough understanding of financial management and resource allocation and optimisation, including budgeting and expenditure control

• Computer literacy (Microsoft Office suite, including Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.).

Requirements: • Education: •

• MBChB degree • A qualification that allows for registration with the HPCSA as a Medical Specialist or a recognised Medical Sub-specialty in the relevant discipline

• A PhD in the relevant discipline or related health discipline will be an advantage

Registration:

• Registered with the HPCSA as an Independent Practitioner

• Proof of current registration with the HPCSA as a Medical Specialist or a recognised Medical Sub-specialty in the relevant discipline

Experience and skills:

• A minimum of five (5) years’ clinical work experience as a Medical Specialist after registration in that category with the HPCSA or holding a recognised sub-specialty in the relevant field, with evidence of having managed a clinical unit or a clinical department

• A minimum of two (2) years’ work experience in teaching and learning at university level, with evidence of teaching and academic contributions in undergraduate and postgraduate medical programmes

Management:

• A minimum of two (2) years’ managing a clinical unit or a clinical department in the relevant clinical discipline

Research:

• Proven track record of research output and publications

• Valid driver’s licence

Institution:                     Beaufort-West Hospital, (Beaufort-West, Central Karoo District)

Remuneration:             Grade 1:  R 1 214 805 per annum

Grade 2:  R 1 386 069 per annum

Grade 3:  R 1 605 330 per annum

(A portion of the package can be structured according to the individual’s personal needs) (It will be expected of the successful candidates to participate in a system of remunerated commuted overtime). Plus a non-pensionable rural allowance of 22% of basic salary

Requirements

Minimum educational qualification:

Appropriate qualification that allows registration with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) as a Medical Specialist in Family Medicine.

Registration with a professional council: 

Registration with the HPCSA as a Medical Specialist in Family Medicine.

Experience:

Grade 1:  None after registration with the HPCSA as Medical Specialist in Family Medicine.

Grade 2: A minimum of 5 years’ appropriate experience as Medical Specialist after registration with the HPCSA (or recognised foreign Health Professional Council in respect of foreign qualified employees) as Medical Specialist in Family Medicine.

Grade 3: A minimum of 10 years’ appropriate experience as Medical Specialist after registration with the HPCSA (or recognised foreign Health Professional Council in respect of foreign qualified employees) as Medical Specialist in Family Medicine.

Inherent requirements of the job:

Commuted overtime contract is compulsory, as well as ability to work after-hours.

Valid (Code B/EB) driver’s license, as well as willingness and ability to travel.

Competencies (knowledge/skills):

Knowledge of a public health approach to delivering integrated family medicine services.

Ability to work in integrated multi-disciplinary teams across platforms.

Clinical, leadership, administrative, teaching and mentoring skills.

Computer literacy in MS Office mandatory.

Creativity to develop new ideas which can result in positive changes to existing processes.

Duties (key result areas/outputs):

Specialist family medicine care to patients (all age groups) at Beaufort-West Hospital and at selected outreach sites in the Central Karoo district.

Participate in clinical governance of a growing integrated district family medicine health service.

Teaching and clinical supervision of junior and allied health practitioners, generalists and medical students within the Central Karoo District.