MEDICAL OFFICER GRADE 1 TO 3 (ORTHOPAEDICS) Chief Directorate: Metro Health Services

Job Overview

New Somerset Hospital, under the Chief Directorate: Metro Health Services, is hiring Medical Officers (Grade 1 to 3) in Orthopaedics. Responsibilities include in-patient and outpatient management, elective and emergency orthopedic surgeries, clinical governance, teaching students, and conducting research. Requirements include registration with the HPCSA as a Medical Practitioner, varying levels of experience depending on the grade, a valid driver's license, computer literacy, and the ability to work under pressure.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Appropriate qualification that allows registration with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) as a Medical Practitioner.
• Registration with the HPCSA as a Medical Practitioner.
• Grade 1 Experience: None after registration as Medical Practitioner with the HPCSA for SA qualified employees, or 1-year relevant experience for foreign qualified employees.
• Grade 2 Experience: Minimum of 5 years appropriate experience as Medical Practitioner after registration with the HPCSA for SA qualified employees, or 6 years for foreign qualified employees.
• Grade 3 Experience: Minimum of 10 years appropriate experience as a Medical Practitioner after registration with the HPCSA for SA qualified employees, or 11 years for foreign qualified employees.
• Valid (Code B/EB) driver’s license.
• Willingness to work overtime when required.
• Willingness to work at the relevant institutions on the rotation platform.
• Appropriate experience in providing Orthopaedic Surgical services.
• Ability to function in a team under pressure in a high volume, high stress environment.
• Computer Literacy.
• Appropriate experience in research methodology.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Clinical Service: In-patient and outpatient management of orthopedic patients.
• Clinical Service: Operative (surgical) care of orthopedic patients, both elective and emergencies.
• Clinical governance, ensuring rational and cost-effective use of resources such as laboratory investigations, medications, consumables and equipment.
• Teaching: both formal and informal teaching to students.
• Innovation and Research within the orthopedic team.
• Leadership within the orthopedic and hospital team.

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