Family Physician — Cape Town needed at Faircape Group

• We are seeking a Family Physician to co-lead the team of medical officers in conjunction with the current Family Physician.
• If you are committed to providing comprehensive healthcare in a supportive and collaborative environment, we would love to hear from you.

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