Family Physician

Faircape Health Tokai is a Sub Acute Care and Rehabilitation Centre which provides restorative care and rehabilitation for patients recovering from a variety of medical conditions that include Neurological, Orthopaedic, Surgical, Medical and Oncology. At Tokai Healthcare, the focus is mainly on acute conditions that immediately affect patients' rehabilitation progress.

Our world-class care aims to bridge the gap between hospital and home. Our Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) of leading healthcare professionals administers care in the most therapeutic environment possible and supports healing outcomes in all aspects.

We are seeking a **Family Physician** to co-lead the team of medical officers in conjunction with the current Family Physician.

Tokai Estate is a spectacular 72 bed fully accredited new sub-acute facility with capacity to provide acute care if needed.

**Duties include but are not limited to**:

- Reviewing admissions admitted by the medical officers: thorough initial consultation to collate investigations and treatment to date and review current management.
- Providing advice to medical officers on patients they are managing.
- Willingness to do weekend ward rounds and be on telephonic after-hours cover for your own patients during the week.
- Dealing and managing patient / family complaints.
- 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.
- 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 received.
- Giving input where needed to medical/nursing guidelines and procedures.
- Coordinating training of medical officers.
- Clinical governance: weekly clinical meetings on current guidelines, antibiotic stewardship meetings, monthly journal club, ensuring equal access to CPD activities.

**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**:

- Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
- Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision.
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the team’s performance and service expansion.
- Effectively manage your own time, workload and effectively collaborate with the MDT team.
- Dependable, responsible, good communication skills.
- Keen interest to work in geriatric subacute/acute care.
- Enjoy and eagerness to work in the private sector.
- Conflict handling skills.
- Report writing skills.
- Ethical and integrous.
- Commitment to excellence to ensure the goals of the clinical team are met.

**Specific Requirements**:

- Clear health record.
- Clear criminal record.
- Contactable references.
- Hepatitis B vaccination.
- Vaccinated against Covid-19 or prepared to be vaccinated prior to commencing job sources.

**Unique opportunities for joining Faircape Health**:

- Upskilling in new treatments, which are not always available in government.
- Opportunity to make a real difference in patient care by advising on guidelines/policies and seeing change in practice.
- Working for a company that embodies a culture of clinical excellence in all aspects of health care.
- Networking with private surgeons and physicians and access to private CPD activities.
- Rare opportunity to work in a private inpatient setting with acutely unwell medical and surgical patients, with greater exposure to medical complexity than would be found in outpatient practice.
- Guiding and mentoring younger doctors.
- Honing skills in communication with patients/families and referring specialists.
- Wonderful friendly team of doctors and rehabilitation professionals who are committed to best patient care.
- Opportunity to pursue further training and accreditation in geriatrics, palliative care and pain management.
- Mentoring from the Family Physician who has worked at the facility for 4 years.

**Working Hours**:
Weekdays 09h00-18h00 onsite

Weekends: 08h00 until patient rounds are completed (two weekend days a month for approximately 5 hours. A weekday afternoon is offered off to compensate for each weekend day worked).

Salary on offer is R 90 000 to R 100 000 Cost to Company per month depending on experience, qualifications, skills and attributes.
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