Sessional Medical Specialist

Requirements

Senior Certificate (Matric), MBCHB or equivalent qualification registered with the HPCSA. FCA (SA) or MMEd (Anaes) Plus Current Registration with the Health Professions Council of South Africa as a “Specialist Anaesthesiologist”. Additional Experience: Additional experience in providing a specialist service as a senior anaesthetist in the sub-specialty areas of Anaesthesia will be considered an advantage. Candidates who have completed their period of registrar training as registrars may also apply on condition that their appointment will be subject to them submitting documentary evidence of registration with the Health Professions Council of South Africa. Grade 1: Requires appropriate qualification plus registration with the Health Professions Council of South Africa. Registrars who have completed their training may also apply on condition that their appointment will be subject to them submitting documentary evidence of registration with the HPCSA as a Medical Specialist in Anaesthesiology. Grade 2: Requires appropriate qualification, registration certificate plus 5 years’ or more experience after registration with the HPCSA as a Medical Specialist in Anaesthesiology. Grade 3: Requires appropriate qualification, registration certificate plus 10 years’ or more experience after registration with the HPCSA as a Medical Specialist in Anaesthesiology. Knowledge, Skills, Training and Competencies: Knowledge and skills in Clinical Anaesthesia, including Emergency, Medical and Surgical Care and Acute and Chronic Pain. Demonstrate the ability to supervise and teach junior staff. Demonstrate the ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team. Proven management ability, sound communication, negotiation, planning, organising, leadership, decision-making and interpersonal skills. Behavioural Attributes: Stress tolerance, to work within a team, self-confidence and the ability to build and maintain good relationships.

Key Responsibilities

Provide a specialist anaesthesia service on a sessional basis. Provide perioperative anaesthesia care for a variety of specialised and complex sub- disciplines within IALCH. Provide a consultative service and expert opinion on Anaesthesia related matters at IALCH within the staffing norms. Assist with preoperative assessment of patients in the wards or in the pre-anaesthetic clinic. Maintain clinical, professional and ethical standards related to these services. Comply with the guidelines, protocols and clinical audits, in the department as to optimise patient care in the theatres and wards with the resources available. Assist with auditing the activity and outcomes of service of the Anaesthetic Department. Be part of the multi-disciplinary team to optimise patient care and use of Human and other resources. Be actively involved in the Departmental undergraduate and post- graduate teaching programmes. Participate in both academic and clinical administrative activities.

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Notes

Applications must be submitted individually on the prescribed new approved Z83 form, the form is available from the website www.kznworks.gov.za or can be obtainable from any Public Service department, and must be accompanied by a comprehensive Curriculum Vitae (CV). Certified copies of supporting documents need not accompany your application and CV, as these will be requested from shortlisted candidates only. Faxed or electronic copies will not be considered. Candidates are urged to view the guidelines available to all prospective candidates applying for vacant position on the departmental website before completing applications for posts. Candidates are also advised not to send their applications through registered mail, as the Department will not take responsibility for non-collection thereof. It is the applicants’ responsibility to have foreign qualifications assessment for equivalent by the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA). Applications that do not comply with the above-mentioned instructions will be disqualified. Please note that the Department reserves the right not to fill the post. Recommended candidate’s personal information will be subject to vetting prior to an offer of appointment being made. Candidates are expected to be available on the date set for the interviews or they may be disqualified. Should you not have been contacted by this office within 3 months of the closing date of the advertisement, kindly consider your application being unsuccessful. Please note that further communication shall be restricted to those candidates who will have been shortlisted. The appointed candidate shall be required to sign a performance agreement. Please note that reference checks and/or confirmation of employment will be done with the current employer and candidates are advised to include references from the current employment to facilitate this. The filling of this post will be guided by the Department’s Employment Equity targets. Please note that requests for higher salaries will not be entertained for the advertised posts, however it may only be considered for posts falling within the Occupational Specific Dispensation (OSD) subject to the existing provisions. Candidates applying for advertised posts in the Department, will be deemed to have granted consent to their personal information being used to determine suitability in terms of the POPIA Act, 4 of 2013. Please note that employment verifications shall be undertaken for all experience which has been recognized for shortlisting purposes, experience in the public service will need to be supported with a signed job description and PERSAL service record history and experience from the private sector needs to be supported by a certificate of service confirming the name of company, position held, periods of employment and duties performed. Experience that cannot be verified will result in the applicant being disqualified. All shortlisted candidates, including the SMS, shall undertake two pre-entry assessments. One will be a practical exercise to determine a candidate’s suitability based on the post’s technical and generic requirements and the other must be an integrity (ethical conduct) assessment. 142 MANAGEMENT ECHELON