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
Customer Service Consultants Needed
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
Order Administrator Required
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
Who decides whether surgery is necessary in a pandemic?
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.
Virtually any medical service can be rendered
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.
Window of opportunity
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.
Prioritisng patients
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.
Deputy Vice-Chancellor/Vice-Rector: Learning/Teaching (Stellenbosch)
| 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.
- Govern and oversee the alignment of SU policies and practices with the relevant national and international best practice and evidence;
- Promote the development of a welcoming and supportive living and learning environment for students;
- Promote curricular and co-curricular developmental opportunities for students to ensure a transformative student experience and the attainment of SU graduate attributes;
- Maintain SU’s momentum of excellence throughout the entire student life cycle;
- Ensure that institutional financial aid resources are geared towards the support of students;
- Ensure that SU’s teaching is learning-centred and attuned to the educational needs of a 21st-century student;
- Ensure the maintenance and development of a professional and academic support staff complement to enhance SU’s learning and teaching;
- Promote the professionalisation of teaching, the scholarly teaching role, and the reward for good teaching.
Requirements:
- Eligibility for an appointment at a professorial level at Stellenbosch University;
- A doctorate;
- Proven capacity to provide dynamic and strategic leadership in the areas of responsibility, including strategic planning and implementing abilities, human resource management, the management of change, risk, budgets and operational plans;
- At least five years’ experience as a senior leader in an academic institution;
- Demonstrated thorough knowledge of the South African higher education system, as well as the national and international realities of this sector that increasingly uses online learning;
- Proven ability to develop and sustain strategically relevant institutional partnerships and alliances at national as well as international level;
- Demonstrated ability to successfully direct, coordinate and strategically integrate multiple projects at an institutional level;
- Excellent communication, negotiation and facilitation skills in diverse environments;
- The ability to function effectively within a multilingual and multicultural environment;
- Sound interpersonal relations and the ability to take the lead within a team;
- The ability to contribute to and accelerate the diversity of staff and the student body;
- The ability to represent the University’s interests at local, regional, national and international level, which may include travel.
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:
- International educational and work experience.
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):
- A comprehensive Curriculum Vitae;
- Your vision for the Responsibility Centre of the deputy vice-chancellor and vice-rector: learning and teaching at SU and your contribution to such a future in the context of the Stellenbosch University’s Vision 2040 and Strategic Framework 2019-2024;
- Details regarding present occupation, remuneration package and citizenship;
- An indication of the earliest date on which duties can be assumed;
- Certified copies of certificates;
- Details of at least three referees.
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
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Engineering Manager (Western Cape)
| Remuneration: | Market related |
| Location: | Western Cape |
| Job level: | Management Snr |
| Type: | Permanent |
| Reference: | #VIT-145 |
| Company: | Vital |
Job description
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
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
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.
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News24.com | Tuesday’s weather: Expect another fine and cool day
Another fine day is expected on Tuesday, with morning fog and cloudy conditions in the lower parts of the country.
The weather in your province as provided by the South African Weather Service:
It will be fine and cool in Gauteng.
The expected UVB sunburn index is high.
Mpumalanga will be fine and cool but warm in the Lowveld, where it will become partly cloudy from the afternoon.
Limpopo will be fine and warm, becoming partly cloudy in the Lowveld from the afternoon.
It will be fine and cool to warm in the North West.
Fine, cool and warm conditions can be expected in the north of the Free State.
There will be morning fog along the coast of the Northern Cape, otherwise it will be fine and cool to warm with high level clouds.
The wind along the coast will be moderate to fresh south-easterly.
The Western Cape will experience morning fog in places over the south-west, otherwise it will be fine and cool to warm with high level clouds.
The wind along the coast will be light to moderate southerly to south-easterly, but light to moderate westerly to south-westerly along the south coast.
The expected UVB sunburn index is moderate.
In the Eastern Cape, it will be partly cloudy to cloudy in the morning, otherwise fine and warm but cool in places.
The wind along the coast will be light to moderate northerly.
KwaZulu-Natal will be partly cloudy in the north-east at first, otherwise fine and warm but cool in places in the west.
The wind along the coast will be moderate northerly to north-easterly.
The expected UVB sunburn index is moderate.
– Compiled by Maxine Becket
Click here to see the specific forecast for your city over the next few days
Sport24.co.za | Markram: I’ve doubted myself quite a bit this year
It’s all been about mental steeliness for Aiden Markram these past few months.
The Proteas opener has indeed been forced to dig for new levels of resolve after two hand injuries wrecked his 2019/20 season, sidelining him for almost six months.
What made those setbacks particularly challenging is the context.
Last October, Markram, according to Cricket South Africa, “lashed out at a solid object” after completing an ignominious pair during the second Test against India in Pune.
He won the race to be fit in time for the Boxing Day meeting with England in Centurion, before fracturing a finger while fielding and missing the rest of the domestic international season.
That type of down-time is enough to drive any professional sportsman to distraction.
“The most challenging part of being injured is not letting your mind run off. When you’ve got so much time on your hands, you tend to not just overthink things but you delve deep into things which is often quite unnecessary,” said Markram.
“I think trying to keep your mind at bay and trying to keep your mind calm and strong when you have time is probably the biggest challenge that I struggled with.”
Markram’s ordeal though was compounded by the fact that he’d been teetering on the brink of a pronounced slump in form.
After cruising to 1 000 Test runs in his first 18 innings, the 25-year-old has only scored 424 in his last 19 visits to the crease at an average of just over 22.
He hasn’t passed 50 in his last seven.
“I’ve had thoughts of giving up, but I have certainly doubted myself and doubted my abilities,” said Markram.
“At the top level, you’re just a few bad knocks away from people wanting you out of the team. I doubted myself quite a bit this last year, since it was quite a struggle for me.
“It’s a tough space to be in but it comes with the territory and if you want to be a top performer at a high level, you’ve got to find ways to deal with it.”
Two centuries in the domestic One-Day Cup for the Titans in March certainly hinted at him gradually stamping his authority again with the bat, before the Covid-19 pandemic cut things short again.
At least that’s allowed him that extra bit of time for proper mental rejuvenation.
“This time off has certainly been nice to reflect and find ways to not try and blow things out of proportion mentally and just crack on with what needs to be done,” said Markram.
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Java Developer Perm
- Ad Placed : 18 May 2020 18:30:06 Affiliate ad
- Remuneration : PER MONTH
- Employment Type : Full Time
- Employment Level : Senior Management
- Industry :
- IT/Computer
Other IT/Computer - Region : Western Cape
- Company : H2R Africa
A company in the Healthcare sector has a number of vacancies for Java Developers (intermediate and senior level). The positions are based in the Bellville area. There are short-term contracts (6m-12m) available as well as permanent positions, depending on the project requirements
The successful incumbent will drive processes and contribute towards the production of quality code and products, in a team environment, in accordance with the prescribed architecture, standards and implement as required within the agreed upon timeframes
Receive specifications from the Development Manager on client requirements and develop code accordingly
To do the necessary system analysis and provide a solution as per the requirements
Completing Unit tests after development
Conduct system integration tests
Get sign-off from Users and/or Development Manager on the solution
Operates under the supervision of a Senior Developer & Development Manager
Do maintenance and provide system support, where necessary
Unit testing of the delivered code
Impact analysis on code changes
Release management
Provide input and participate at sub system level
Gather the necessary requirements
System documentation (technical design)
Document all work completed
Provide input into User Training, i.e. User documentation, flow chart and hands on User Training
Accept and participate in knowledge sharing of products and systems
Provide assistance throughout the delivery chain as and when required
Agile Scrum team participation
Provide technical guidance, support and supervision to Jnr Developers
Improve system / technical knowledge and awareness of the IT environment
Improve knowledge and understanding of products in team
Requirements
Minimum Qualifications:
Matric
Relevant IT-related tertiary qualification/BTech/Degree
Relevant Sun Microsystems Certification (Sun Certified Java Programmer or Developer) will be an advantage
Minimum Experience:
5 years’ Software Development experience in a distributed computing environment using Java
Solid Java back-end and/or front-end development experience
Containerisation understanding and experience advantageous
Advanced understanding and everyday use of OO principles such as inheritance, interfaces, abstract lasses, etc.
Good systems and code design skills including good documentations skills where necessary
Working knowledge of spring framework, architectural and development best practices (e.g. SOA, dependency injection, ORM, EJB3, JPA etc.) as well as J2EE application server environment will be an added advantage
Understanding and experience with micro-services
Strong knowledge of REST API designs
BPM experience advantageous
Strong knowledge with CI/CD principles
Experience with Apache Camel
GIT Lab experience
Strong Linux experience advantageous
Knowledge and exposure to Agile software development would be advantageous
Good understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Experience working in the healthcare industry would be advantageous
Experience working in a Scrum team and Jira