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Job title : Family Physician — Cape Town
Job Location : Western Cape, Cape Town
Deadline : November 07, 2024
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- 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.
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