Locum Doctor

4 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa Faircape Full time

Faircape Health Tokai Estate 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 and Respite. 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 weekend **Locum Doctor **at** our Tokai Estate**, **Cape Town**, to assist the sub-acute facility in conjunction with the current doctors based there.

Tokai Estate is a spectacular 60 bed fully accredited new sub-acute facility providing high quality care to patients of all ages.

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

- A daily morning ward round at the facility, providing in-patient medical care to +-20 patients
- Admission of new patients into the facility.
- Morning ward rounds starting at 08h00 (unless called for an emergency earlier by staff)
- On-call telephonic cover off-site after all patients are seen and queries dealt with. No routine call outs from home are required.
- The medical management of a variety of patients, post surgery or acute hospitalisation (eg. stroke, total hip replacement, spinal surgery, dementia). This includes treatment of general medical complaints and minor illnesses, monitoring pain and symptom control, at times providing palliative care, and screening for any patients who require referral back to their referring specialist / acute hospital.
- The treatment goal is to improve the medical and overall patient outcome during the physical rehabilitation period and to facilitate a safe and medically stable discharge, with the appropriate level of care. This involves working closely with and leading a multidisciplinary team (physiotherapist, occupational therapist, speech therapist, social worker, dietician).
- Support patients with health education.
- Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards.

**Requirements**:

- 3 - 5 years clinical experience.
- MPS / insurance membership and active HPCSA registration.
- Experience in internal medicine, family medicine, geriatrics, palliative care 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 possesses integrity
- Commitment to excellence to ensure the goals of the clinical team are met

**Specific Requirements**:

- Clear health record
- Clear criminal record
- Clear credit record
- Contactable references
- Vaccinated against covid-19 or prepared to be vaccinated prior to commencing job sources.

**Working Hours**:

- We require Locum Doctors to work on weekends. On-call duty schedules would be determined on a case-by-case basis.

**Standard operating hours**:
Weekends: 08h00 until 16h00 onsite

**Weekend locum rate**:R4500 - R5000 per day

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