Job description – HOPE Cape Town Doctor
The role of the HOPE Cape Town Doctor is to provide clinical service in pediatric HIV clinics, support relevant community projects and provide expertise in the training of health care workers and medical elective students. The clinical service will take 50 % and the training duties, the research, project support and general duties will take the other 50 % of task and duties. That means in detail:
Clinical duties
o Provide comprehensive clinical care to HIV infected children and adults at Tygerberg Hospital and peripheral clinics and communities
o Maintain good relationships with medical staff at Tygerberg Hospital and peripheral clinics in the communities by attending relevant meetings and ward rounds
o Responsible for the organization of the yearly Christmas party and other events for HIV positive children in the communities
Training duties
o Train and support HOPE Cape Town Community Health Workers (HCHW’s)
o With special focus on newly employed HCHW’s during their probation period
o Develop and teach an user friendly course for HCHW based on UNISA-text book “HIV care and counselling course”
o Develop HCHW’s annual training programme
o Responsible for the annual training content for the HCHW’s
o Develop training material and modules
o develop training material and modules of good quality for HWSETA accreditation
o eLearning
o responsible for teaching and training of all e Learning material
o supervision of the e Learning project and keep the contacts with all relevant role players
o Provide external training and awareness as required
o Train and supervise Medical Elective Students of the HOPE – KID CRU Elective
Applied research duties
o Identify research opportunities based on demonstrated needs
o Plan and implement formal and informal research
Project support and general duties
o Liaison and networking with all relevant role players pertaining to all other relevant duties
o Provide medical information and expertise to non-medical personnel
o Assist in planning, initiating and executing HOPE Cape Town projects and programmes
o Provide consultative services for external collaborations
o Do media interviews and articles as required
o Attend training and meetings, like ward rounds and medical meeting, staff and other meetings
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