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Senior Specialist (Senior Family Physician)
DoH - North West Province
2008-03-12
Closing date: 21 March 2008
Joint appointment with the University of the Witwatersrand
Annual salary: R369 000 (plus scarce skills and commuted overtime)
(Ref. K30737/6)
Bophirima District office
Requirements:
- Basic Medical Degree (MBChB or equivalent qualification)
- Postgraduate qualification in family medicine (MFamMed or equivalent qualification)
- A proof of registration with Health Professions Council of South Africa as a family physician must be attached
Recommendations:
- 2 year qualification as a family physician
- Regional hospital experience and teaching experience is essential
Core competencies:
- Clinical skills
- Communication skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Commitment to change
- Commitment to quality
- Innovation and creativity
- Leadership and decision-making
- Development of self and others
- Professional competence
- Problem-solving & conflict management
- Writing skills
- Research skills
Duties:
- Facilitate the provision of PHC services in the regional hospital
- Provide patient care in the regional hospital complex, inter alia through the management of problem cases, support of junior doctors, supervision of students and trainees, and provision of emergency medical care.
- Establish a family medicine department within the regional hospital complex
- Arrange and supervise a suitable family medicine internship rotation.
- Establish family medicine training in the regional hospital, as part of the development of a postgraduate training programme
- Facilitate undergraduate training programmes in family medicine/rural health
- Develop CPD programmes in all the hospitals in the District
- Support and supervise community service medical officers within the family medicine component
- Develop and implement protocols of common conditions in primary care
- Support HIV/AIDS programmes in the hospital
- Support Quality Improvement in the hospital
- Give support to peripheral hospitals and clinics in the district as necessary
- Conduct research in Primary Care
Enquiries: Mr KK Motlhabane, tel. 053 927 0456/8 or Professor Ian Couper, tel. 011 717 2602
Applications must be submitted on form Z 83, obtainable from any Public Service Department and should be accompanied by certified copies of qualifications, Proof of HPCSA registration, Curriculum Vitae (copies, as it will not be returned) and the names of three referees.
Applicants should state the reference number and name of the publication in which they saw the advertisement. (Sunday Times)
Applications must be forwarded to: The Chief Director: DHS, Bophirima Health District, Private Bag X24, Vryburg, 8600, for attention Mr KK Motlhabane
Closing date: 21 March 2008
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