Emergency Doctor
Mediclinic
Date: 2 weeks ago
City: Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal
Contract type: Full time
Mediclinic Southern Africa is a healthcare provider operating in South Africa and Namibia focused on providing acute care, specialist-orientated, multidisciplinary hospital services and related service offerings. We place science at the heart of our care process by striving to provide evidence-based care of the highest standard. The group currently operates 50 private hospitals (excluding a growing number of day clinics) throughout South Africa and three hospitals in Namibia with more than 8 200 beds in total.
EMERGENCY DOCTOR
To provide quality and safe clinical care to patients that present to the emergency centre through assessing, diagnosing, treating and disposition according to best practice standards
Required Education
ESSENTIAL EDUCATION: MB BCh/MB ChB
DESIRED EDUCATION: Dip PEC, MPhil
Required Experience
ESSENTIAL MINIMUM EXPERIENCE: Completion of internship and community service years
DESIRED EXPERIENCE: Previous work experience post community service year in emergency centre in private / public hospital
KEY RESPONSIBILITY AREAS
Provide quality safe clinical care in the emergency centre
Assist with teaching and co-ordinating clinical development programmes in the emergency centre to improve patient care
Adhere to and to support the nursing staff in the application of triage in the emergency centre
Actively participate in company strategies e.g. PatientsFirst@Mediclinic
Partake in emergency centre quality improvement and quality assurance initiatives to ensure safe, quality patient care is delivered at all times
Maintain a minimum standard of emergency medical care knowledge and expertise at all times
Required Job Skills And Knowledge
EMERGENCY DOCTOR
To provide quality and safe clinical care to patients that present to the emergency centre through assessing, diagnosing, treating and disposition according to best practice standards
Required Education
ESSENTIAL EDUCATION: MB BCh/MB ChB
DESIRED EDUCATION: Dip PEC, MPhil
Required Experience
ESSENTIAL MINIMUM EXPERIENCE: Completion of internship and community service years
DESIRED EXPERIENCE: Previous work experience post community service year in emergency centre in private / public hospital
KEY RESPONSIBILITY AREAS
Provide quality safe clinical care in the emergency centre
Assist with teaching and co-ordinating clinical development programmes in the emergency centre to improve patient care
Adhere to and to support the nursing staff in the application of triage in the emergency centre
Actively participate in company strategies e.g. PatientsFirst@Mediclinic
Partake in emergency centre quality improvement and quality assurance initiatives to ensure safe, quality patient care is delivered at all times
Maintain a minimum standard of emergency medical care knowledge and expertise at all times
Required Job Skills And Knowledge
- Health Professions Act No. 56 of 1974
- Children's Act No. 38 of 2005
- HPCSA Regulations and Guidelines on Ethical rules, regulations and policy guidelines
- Advanced Trauma life Support
- South African Triage Scale
- Advanced Paediatric Life Support
- The Charter of the Public and Private Health Sectors of the Republic of South Africa
- Private healthcare industry knowledge
- Mental Health Care Act No. 17 of 2002
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support
- Children's Amendment Act No. 41 of 2007
- Basic Life Support
- National Health Act No.61 of 2003
- The Patients' Rights Charter