Dr Alison Bentley is a general practitioner who has consulted in sleep medicine and sleep disorders, in both adults and children of all ages, for almost 30 years. She also researches and publishes on a number of sleep-related topics both in formal research journals and lay publications including as editor of Sleep Matters, an educational newsletter on sleep disorders for doctors.
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| Remuneration: | negotiable Basic salary |
| Location: | Johannesburg |
| Education level: | Diploma |
| Job level: | Junior |
| Travel requirement: | Occasional |
| Job policy: | Employment Equity position |
| Type: | Permanent |
| Company: | Conversation LAB |
Conversation LAB is an award-winning, digitally-focused creative agency whose portfolio covers global and local brands from FMCG to B2B.
Our client base includes aQuelle, Varsity College, Vega, Environ Skin Care (Local and Global), Renew Hair, TCB Naturals, Inecto, Darling, and Frika Hair as well as Bidvest Insurance, to name a few.
Conversation LAB has offices in Johannesburg, Durban and London and operates a very agile and technology-enabled work environment.
We are looking for a driven and ambitious senior account executive with a minimum two years of agency experience to work on our fashion and beauty brands – solid digital experience and capabilities are a must. The role requires extensive multi-tasking across clients, brands and agency departments. We are looking for someone who is passionate about marketing and advertising and understands the strategic role of digital in communications.
This role provides day to day administrative and project management support to the Account Management team and requires someone who pays close attention to detail and has a clear understanding of Agency processes and systems e.g Magnetic and, or Chase.
This person will have a thorough understanding of financial processes, the account executive manages all the financial administration (Billings, WIPS’s, Recons) on the account.
We want someone who is a team player, gets stuck in and is always willing to help. Someone who strives to consistently deliver quality work for our Clients. And has fun doing so!
Award-winning digital agency with offices in London, Johannesburg and Durban.
Posted on 19 May 17:53
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PRETORIA, Tuesday 19 May 2020 – The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has learnt with concern, that as of yesterday, 18 May 2020, 2 additional positive COVID-19 instances among staff have been reported. This brings the total number of infections to 7 since the beginning of the pandemic.
One of the COVID-19 positive employees is in the Free State, one in KwaZulu Natal, one in the North West and four the Western Cape. A colleague who had earlier recovered was also based in the Free State. A second employee is still in intensive care and remains on oxygen support. We continue to wish them all the best for a speedy recovery.
SARS Commissioner, Edward Kieswetter has personally been in touch with the affected employees to connect with them, enquire how they were and to extend his support. The Commissioner says: “It is important that during these challenging times, none of our employees feel that they are emotionally and spiritually separated from the larger SARS family, even as they are physically isolated to limit the spread of the virus to others”. He has further thanked the respective SARS leadership at the respective offices for their swift and appropriate action, as well as the SARS Wellness Team who continues to provide a sterling support service to the individuals and their families.
“Covid-19 is real, and its impact will inevitably infect many of us directly, but certainly affect all of us in one way or another.”
The management of the locations where our colleagues are stationed have implemented the necessary de-contamination measures where positive cases have been identified.
At one of the locations, namely Bellville, individuals who were in close contact with two COVID-19 positive colleagues have been traced and have been advised to seek medical advice, before returning for duty. Should they test positive, they will self-isolate or go into quarantine.
In addition, the SARS Bellville Campus will be temporarily closed to effect deep sanitization, and will re-open on Wednesday, 20 May 2020. We will continue to communicate with taxpayers to provide alternative ways of interacting with SARS in instances where we decide, as an abundance of caution, to close our offices. The safety of our employees and the public is paramount, and we want taxpayers to know that we are committed to the public health, occupational and social distancing measures as is required.
The work of SARS remain invaluable as Government needs all the resources to able to deal with the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to ensuring tax collection, tax refund payments, and trade facilitation, SARS continue to administer the range of tax relief measures announced by Government to bring much needed relief to businesses in distress, to enable them to save jobs, and continue to operate in these challenging times.
“We are clear that the higher purpose of our work enables Government to employ frontline workers such as Community Health Workers, Nurses and Doctors, who put their lives in danger in order to combat the scourge of COVID-19. It also enables the purchase of additional equipment and supplies for testing, contact tracing, personal protection and medicines. Equally important, is Government’s support for poor households through social relief measures including financial support and food supplies to the most vulnerable”, Kieswetter emphasizes. “We therefore place enormous value on the work carried out by our employees during these challenging and unprecedented times. We are all learning to co-exist with the novel corona virus, and to establish a completely new sense of normality. I wish to extend my deepest appreciation to the thousands of SARS employees, who in doing their work, themselves face the virus head on”.
SARS wishes to assure the public as well as all its 12 500 employees that it will take every pre-caution to ensure our offices remain fully compliant with every measure required to lower the risk of infection. Where unfortunate instances of positive cases are detected, we will respond immediately to ensure affected employees follow the appropriate action, follow through with disciplined contact tracing to identify other individuals who may be at risk, and return our places of work to the necessary public health standards, as required.
We apologize where taxpayers may have been inconvenienced, and will work hard to restore our normal rhythm to be at your service.
We remind Taxpayers who need to interact with SARS, that as part of our Covid-19 response, we have worked extra hard to provide all our services on line. Only visit our offices when absolutely necessary, and by making an appointment on line or by telephone. Should taxpayers need to file a return or make a payment, they may do so from the safety of their home or office via our digital channels which include eFiling, the SARS MobiApp, e@syFile or call the SARS Contact Centre on 0800 00 7277.
Are you a legal secretary looking for the next step in your career?
Are you a strong administrator looking to move in to a Legal environment? Do you have experience working in a Private Client environment?
If so we would like to hear from you.
We work in partnership with the largest and most reputable law firms in South Africa.They offer staff a professional and supportive working environment, genuine opportunities for training and career progression, competitive salaries and excellent benefits. Our client currently has opportunities within their Court of Protection department.
The successful candidate will combine a well-organised, careful, conscientious approach to their work with exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to show tact, patience, understanding and persuasiveness where needed.
You will have excellent IT skills, a strong attention to detail, a fast accurate typing speed and be confident working around numbers.
Send Application to:ben@nexdirect.co.za
What being a customer service consultant involve? Speak to a huge array of customers. And tailor your approach to each. Whatever your background, this is a customer-focused sales and service role with real variety. The joy of working with so many different brands is that they appeal to a huge variety of different people. Your challenge is to do the same. When it’s appropriate you will offer our products, whether that’s car, home, travel or pet insurance, but you’ll also help customers by amending, transferring and renewing policies. When a call comes through, it could be anyone from any walk of life, and you’ll have to adapt your approach accordingly. You’ll follow scripts in certain areas, but how you walk your customers through the process, get to know them, highlight the benefits and match our products to their needs is largely up to you. Skills and qualities you’ll need We want people to draw on their life experience, personality and individual talents. If you have sales experience, so much the better. Whilst we offer training, broadly speaking, we look for: • The ability to communicate persuasively • Sharp thinking and an eye for detail • Helpfulness and a passion for customer service • Drive and enthusiasm for meeting targets • PC literacy In return, we’ll give you a great team atmosphere, extensive training, excellent benefits and plenty of opportunities for progression in our call centres. Email CV to: chris@jobnetflix.co.za
Working hours are weekdays 8.00am – 4.30pm, with an earlier finish of 3.30pm on a Friday.
Key responsibilities of the Order Administrator will include but are not limited to:
• To process customer orders in a timely manner meeting deadlines
• Coordination with internal teams to ensure orders are timely
• Handle (and resolve where possible) customer queries
• Keep customers informed of any developments
• Keep systems up to date with customer information
• General administration duties
• Liaising with the transport/warehouse to ensure deliveries are made on time in full
• Daily reporting and account management including raising and processing credit
• Checking back order reports, following up on any items on QA hold and
• Where appropriate offer customers additional products and services when they call to place orders.
• Manage general telephone queries and direct to relevant people taking messages where appropriate
• Welcoming visitors to site and general customer service
Our Order Administrator needs to have:
• Accurate order processing skills
• Experience if SAP is preferred
• Excellent listening skills
• Ability to be proactive with problem solving skills
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to learn product knowledge
• Work on own initiative and to tight timescales
• Capable of multitasking in a busy environment
Email CV to: craig@balqeestourism.co.za
The question of balancing risk versus benefit speaks to the very foundations of medicine. Surgeons recognise that the skills required to get this right are more important than any particular technical skill they may have acquired and are based on years of training, experience, and the evaluation of evidence.The question of balancing risk versus benefit speaks to the very foundations of medicine. Surgeons recognise that the skills required to get this right are more important than any particular technical skill they may have acquired and are based on years of training, experience, and the evaluation of evidence. It is only within the individual doctor-patient interaction that such an assessment can be made.
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Medical funders and managed health organisations have responsibilities to their members, clients and trustees to ensure that patient well-being is paramount and that the particular fund is protected from wasteful, irrational or fraudulent expenditure. However, the ultimate responsibility for surgical decisions lies with the surgeon who remains accountable to his patient, his professional societies, his peers and the law. Only in the most exceptional of circumstances would one expect a funder to interfere in a decision arrived at jointly between a surgeon and his or her adequately informed patient. This has always been the case. The current complexities of the Covid-19 pandemic are certainly not a reason to deviate from this principle.
A national understanding of the need for on-going surgical services is developing for 2020. Initial calls by the surgical societies themselves to halt scheduled surgery well ahead of the promulgation of any disaster regulations were based on the predictions that the pandemic would peak in April 2020, following which there would be at least some sort of return to normality. It is clear that the crisis will continue well into 2021 and will in fact deteriorate considerably in the coming months, therefore patients requiring necessary surgery must be offered this now.
In terms of regulation 16(2)(a) of the Disaster Management Act of 2020, essential medical services are permissible and a recent senior legal opinion has stated that ‘virtually any “medical service” can be rendered, provided that the legal compliance criteria in regulation 16(6), Annexure E and the Occupational Health and Safety Act can be adhered to’. There is no legal impediment to scheduled surgical procedures being undertaken.
Timing in surgery is everything with a price to be paid when necessary surgery is delayed. The fact that a procedure can be scheduled in no way indicates that it is unnecessary or can be postponed indefinitely. Surgery for cancer as well as conditions associated with intractable pain or severe loss of quality of life simply cannot be delayed by months and months. Many conditions will almost certainly require emergency treatment later, if not managed correctly now. The list is innumerable and these preventable emergency procedures tend to be associated with high medical risk as well as considerable cost.
The risk of patients or healthcare workers contracting Covid-19 in hospital cannot be under-estimated, even if reduced by adherence to guidelines including effective use of PPE. Routine testing of in-patients or patients scheduled for surgery will certainly be helpful (in spite of the risk of false negatives) and all major hospital groups are requiring this as a routine. It is clear that this increased risk will continue beyond 2020. Patients need to be carefully informed of the risks and both surgeons and patients must balance this risk against the risk of denying surgical treatment. This they must do together and should reflect the decision in a specific Covid-19 consent form.
Measures to “flatten the curve” have almost certainly created a window of opportunity to provide necessary surgical treatment. As the anticipated surge arrives it is likely that for a period, hospitals will only be able to provide resources for surgery that is immediately necessary to save life or limb, but this is simply not the case at present and accumulating large backlogs will not help anyone. This situation is quite unlike that experienced in the USA or Europe and therefore a requirement that there be a sustained fall in new Covid-19 cases before continuing with necessary surgery cannot be supported.
The ability of a hospital to provide such necessary surgical services will, in the context of the current pandemic, vary from location to location depending on Covid-19 case load, available resources, and the possibility of sub-dividing the hospital into Covid-19 and non-Covid-19 areas. Private hospitals may be in a better position to achieve this than state institutions and therefore the services offered by the two should not be compared. As the anticipated surge arrives it is likely that for a period, hospitals will only be able to provide resources for surgery that is immediately necessary to save life or limb, but this is simply not the case at present.
Priority at this time should be given to day-case procedures, particularly those that do not require general anaesthesia or intensive care and patients who because of low age and lack of co-morbidities are relatively low risk for serious Covid-19 infections. Several scoring systems have been proposed to aid decision making. Day clinics in particular do not have overnight facilities and therefore will not be treating or admitting Covid-19 patients, enabling procedures to go ahead there according to the relevant specialist group guidelines.
Many interventions can and will be postponed beyond 2020 but those that cannot, should not. Lists of procedures are completely unhelpful as it is not the procedure code that is key but the clinical indication for doing the procedure. It is the surgeon and the patient who should be making this call as long as practice conforms to available specialty-specific guidelines. South African surgeons should be working, prioritising patients appropriately, and consulting closely with local hospital management, anaesthesiologists and nurses to ensure that local resources are adequate and properly managed, and that all safety guidelines are rigidly adhered to. This approach has been endorsed by the Federation of South African Surgical Societies (FOSAS) representing 19 surgical societies and associations in this country.
Funders at this time should be assisting surgeons wherever possible given the unique difficulties that the pandemic presents. Many surgeons continue to operate with their support staff working from home. Laborious pre-authorisation and requests for letters of motivation should be suspended during the crisis. In the majority of instances, the need for the procedure should be evident simply by noting the ICD10 code, most of which will reflect a PMB condition. Surgeons are simply not going to be performing unnecessary procedures whilst exposing both their patients and themselves to risk and to suggest that such practices are widespread at this time is to fundamentally misunderstand the nature of the doctor-patient relationship and the commitment of surgeons to firstly, do no harm.
| Remuneration: | Market related |
| Location: | Stellenbosch |
| Type: | Permanent |
| Reference: | #VR/094/0420 |
| Company: | Stellenbosch University |
Stellenbosch University
(Ref. VR/094/0420)
Stellenbosch University (SU) is a research-intensive university where we attract outstanding students, employ talented staff and provide a world-class environment; a place connected to the world, while enriching and transforming local, continental and global communities. Stellenbosch University’s strategic positioning for the 21st century is articulated in the Vision 2040 and Strategic Framework 2019-2024 (see: http://www.sun.ac.za/english/about-us/strategic-documents).
Reporting directly to the rector and vice-chancellor, the deputy vice-chancellor and vice-rector: learning and teaching is the academic leader specifically responsible for, inter alia, the management of the learning and teaching functions of the University.
The responsibility centre of the vice-rector: learning and teaching strives to build on academic success and to provide the necessary support to academics and students. Overall, the emphasis is on learning and teaching leadership; education policy development; academic planning and education quality assurance; student affairs; support to student governance structures; and promotion of multilingualism. All the divisions within this responsibility centre work closely with ten faculties to help create a welcoming culture for all students and staff, to ensure all students achieve success, and to enrich the lecture experience of lecturers and students through the use of technology in an innovative way to increase the effectiveness of learning and teaching.
As a member of the executive management team, the deputy vice-chancellor and vice-rector: learning and teaching will support the rector and vice-chancellor to establish, achieve and maintain the University’s vision, mission, values and goals, and to establish synergy between research, teaching and learning, and social impact. Furthermore, the deputy vice-chancellor and vice-rector: learning and teaching will support the rector and vice-chancellor in the implementation of learning and teaching initiatives.
Duties:
The incumbent will be required to provide intellectual and strategic leadership of the following functional areas, in accordance with Vision 2040 and Strategic Framework 2019-2024: Student Affairs and Learning and Teaching Enhancement.
Requirements:
As part of the interview process, shortlisted candidates would be expected to do a presentation, based on their vision for the Responsibility Centre of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-Rector: Learning and Teaching at SU and their contribution to such a future in the context of Stellenbosch University’s Vision 2040 and Strategic Framework 2019-2024.
Recommendations:
Term of office: A deputy vice-chancellor and vice-rector may hold office for an initial term, determined by the University Council, of not more than five years and may be re-appointed for one more consecutive term thereafter.
Remuneration: Determined by the Remuneration Committee of the University Council.
Commencement of duties: 1 January 2021 or as soon as possible thereafter
Closing date: 5 June 2020
Enquiries: Ms Kristin Rutgers on 021 808 4906, or at
az.ca.nus@sregturk
Completed applications, comprising the documentation as set out below, must be sent via email to
az.ca.nus@reganamsda
before the closing date. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Documentation details (please ensure that your application includes all of the documents listed below):
The University is committed to employment equity (EE). In accordance with SU’s institutional EE plan and the EE Plan for the specific environment, persons from designated groups will receive preference over foreign nationals where EE targets are a factor, and where EE targets are not a factor, South African citizens will receive preference over foreign nationals. ‘Designated groups’ refers to women, people with disabilities and black people (i.e. black African, Coloured, Indian and Asian) who are natural persons and citizens of the Republic of South Africa by birth or descent; or who are citizens of the Republic of South Africa by naturalisation that occurred before the commencement date of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (i.e. 4 February 1997); or who became citizens of the Republic of South Africa on the commencement date of the Constitution, but who would have been entitled to acquire citizenship by naturalisation.
The University reserves the right not to make an appointment.
At the discretion of the Selection Committee, candidates may be subjected to appropriate psychometric testing and other selection instruments and should, therefore, be willing to oblige.
The University reserves the right to investigate qualifications and conduct background checks on all candidates.
The University reserves the right to extend the closing date if deemed appropriate.
Posted on 19 May 09:59
| Remuneration: | Market related |
| Location: | Western Cape |
| Job level: | Management Snr |
| Type: | Permanent |
| Reference: | #VIT-145 |
| Company: | Vital |
Responsibilities:
•Develop and maintain an effective engineering strategy for the company
•Manage company assets
•Manage special projects e.g. upgrades, modifications, installations and commissioning
•Manage allocated budget effectively
•Ensure that staff are trained, equipped and motivated through effective staff management processes
•Prepare and maintain the planned maintenance schedule for all machines and services
•Organise breakdown maintenance
•The design, installation and commissioning of new machinery
•Implement projects for continuous improvement in the factory in order to improve productivity and reduce waste.
Requirements:
•National Diploma or Degree in Industrial/Mechanical Engineering
•5 years senior engineering management experience in a FMCG or pharmaceutical environment
•3 years project management experience
•Knowledge of relevant legislation e.g. OSH Act, BCEA
•Exceptional project management, people management and problem solving skills will be advantageous.
Closing date: 25 May 2020.
Kindly note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Posted on 18 May 20:19
Vital Health Foods was the first to establish the health foods industry in South Africa. Today, the company is the number one vitamin and mineral supplement manufacturer in the country.