Medical Specialist Grade 1 to 3 (Anaesthetics) (10 sessions per week) (3-year contract)

Job Facts

Minimum Requirements

• A valid driver’s licence.
• Appropriate experience in obstetric anaesthesia. Ability to work in a team and with all levels of staff. Interest in training junior anaesthetists and students in a career in anaesthesia. Computer literacy.
• Appropriate qualification that allows registration with the Health Professional Council of South Africa (HPCSA) as a Medical Specialist in Anaesthesia.
• Grade 1: None after registration with the HPCSA as a Medical Specialist in Anaesthesia.
• Grade 2: A minimum of 5 years’ appropriate experience as Medical Specialist after registration with the HPCSA (or recognised foreign Health Professional Council in respect of foreign qualified employees) as Medical Specialist in Anaesthesia.
• Grade 3: A minimum of 10 years’ appropriate experience as Medical Specialist after registration with the HPCSA (or recognised foreign Health Professional Council in respect of foreign qualified employee) as a Medical Specialist in Anaesthesia.

Responsibilities

• To deliver comprehensive anaesthesia and critical care services to patients in theatre and the wards at Mowbray maternity Hospital.
• Pre-operative, intraoperative and post-operative anaesthetic management of surgical patients.
• Perform clinical teaching and training of interns, students and nursing colleagues.
• Rotating through the hospitals affiliated with the University of Cape Town, namely Groote Schuur Hospital, New Somerset Hospital and Mowbray Maternity Hospital.
• Management duties such as statistics, presentations and research.
• Management of the epidural and pain service at Mowbray Maternity Hospital.