SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:
Main purpose of the job:
- To recruit and provide outpatient medical care and treatment to clinical trial participants (HIV, COVID-19, NCDs) in designated facilities, and to provide technical advice and support such as training, mentoring, referrals, and data management
Location:
- Ezintsha Research Centre, Parktown, Johannesburg
Key performance areas:
- Examine, treat and refer participants according to research protocols and guidelines
- Ensure the inclusion of appropriate participants in clinical trials
- Treat opportunistic and sexually transmitted infections as diagnosed
- Prescribe appropriate treatments
- Report adverse events as per protocol, within applicable timelines
- Liaise with the laboratory regarding interpretation of laboratory results
- Ensure appropriate management plans are followed for all abnormal lab results
- Conduct ward rounds to follow up admitted participants where possible
- Data collection and storage according to GCP and study SOPs
- Recruitment and retention according to set targets as required by sponsors
- Set up and maintenance of trial documentation
- Participate in the development and review of guidelines, SOPs and other research material
- Provide support to clinical staff to ensure high quality patient care
- Assist in writing of grant proposals, concept notes, protocols and ethics applications for new research studies
- Implement research studies as part of a team
- Participate in ongoing mentorship programmes initiated by other EZINTSHA stakeholders
- Compile reports on different aspects of clinical care, including adverse events, pregnancies, etc.
- Capture data on CRFs and patient logs
- Proactively resolve protocol queries and missing data
- Participate in programme audits
- Compile and submit reports to Programme Managers for submission to donors
- Participate in compiling documents to showcase EZINTSHA’s work
- Attend meetings
- Act as a point of contact for the research site, partner organisations, donors and internally where appropriate
- Communicate with all levels of EZINTSHA staff around inputs and outputs
- Provide feedback to internal and external stakeholders where required
Required minimum education and training:
- MBBCh Degree or equivalent
Required minimum work experience:
- Minimum 2 years’ experience in Public Health
Professional body registration:
- Health Professions Council of South Africa
Desirable additional education, work experience and personal abilities:
- Certification in HIV Management
- Experience working in a donor funded organisation/NGO or project-based environment
- Experience writing donor proposals and protocols
- Exceptional organisational and administrative skills together with working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Ordered and systematic in approach to tasks
- Attention to detail. Pro-active, able to exercise discretion and independent decision-making
- Able to prioritise own workload and work towards deadlines
- Self-motivated, able to work independently and work as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Able to speak other African languages
TO APPLY:
- Only if you do meet the minimum job requirements and experience as mentioned above, you may submit a detailed updated CV.
- Please take note that the applicants who do not adhere to the above requirements will not be considered for the respective position.
- Please Apply Online and complete your registration on Ditto Hire (our application tracking system) to enable and protect you as a candidate to accept the new POPIA terms and conditions. This will then create your permanent profile with which you can apply for all jobs as advertised by AJ PERSONNEL. However, you may remove your profile from AJ PERSONNEL when you are no longer in the job market.
- The closing date for all applications: 04 February 2025.
- Note WHC, in accordance with their Employment Equity goals and plan, will give preference to suitable applicants from designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and subsequent amendments thereto.
Please note:
- AJ Personnel is only responsible for the advertising and response handling of the advertisement on behalf of their client Wits Health Consortium.
- AJ Personnel does not have any salary or other information regarding the position.
- Wits Health Consortium will only respond to shortlisted candidates.
- Candidates who have not been contacted within two weeks from the closing date can consider their application to be unsuccessful.
