Senior Medical Doctor - Rehab

SUMMARY:
Our client a private hospital in Johannesburg is looking for a Senior Medical Doctor: Rehab Unit.

POSITION INFO:
Duties & Responsibilities:

• Clinical assessment and daily management of patients admitted to the unit, including weekend wards rounds twice per month, and some public holidays ward rounds.
• Participation in family meetings and team goal setting and rehab plan review meetings.
• Compliance to company policies and formulary and anti-microbial stewardship programmes.
• Driving a spasticity management programme.
• Participating in compiling patient reports to funders and referring doctors.
• Assist with the marketing of the business and the positioning of the unit in the provision of this challenging service.
• Create a unit culture, which promotes business objectives, a performance / results orientation, customer focus and teamwork.
• Disseminate best-practice evidence internally and externally via CPD activities, congresses, and peer reviewed literature.
• Monitor the service provided and ensure high-level professional training for staff.
• Supervise and train of university students, as required.

• A MBBCH or MBChB, current registration with the HPCSA as medical doctor.
• Current indemnity and malpractice insurance (permanent on demand and locum positions)
• Specialist specialty is an advantage.
• Hospital-based clinical experience in acute rehabilitation, neurology, orthopaedics and/or general medicine is a requirement.
• Experience in leading a team of professionals and successfully providing clinical supervision to professionals will be an advantage.