DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH Private Bag X828 PRETORIA, 0001 Republic of South www.doh.gov.za Enquiries: Mr TM Magoro Tel: (012) 312 0517 Dear Applicant ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONS COMMUNITY SERVICE: 2007 Please note that this letter contains the relevant information that you need to apply appropriately for a community service post as well as other relevant information. You are therefore requested to read through it very carefully before completing the application form and also keep it safe for future reference. INTRODUCTION The main objective of Community Service is to ensure improved provision of health service to all the citizens of our country. In the process this also provides our young professionals with an opportunity to develop skills, acquire knowledge, behaviour patterns and critical thinking that will help them in their professional developm ent. During your practice, quarterly reports will be written by your supervisor and signed by the superintendent. A final report will be submitted to the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA), should you have performed satisfactorily during the year. You will then be able to register in the category Independent Practice. You may have to rotate within the health facility complex of your allocation which may include Regional, and / or District hospital, Community Health Centre(s), clinic(s), emergency services and other health facilities depending on the service needs. Please note that clinics and community health centres may not be indicated on the list of approved health facilities but they are part of the complexes in which community service professionals will be placed. 1
THE APPLICATION FORM Find attached an application form (original and printed in colour), together with a list of health facilities (complexes) approved for community service as well as relevant inform ation regarding the health facilities. Once you have completed the application form, kindly hand it in at your Dean s office in duplicate together with duplicate copies of your ID document (and other supporting documents, e.g. marriage certificate, where applicable) not later than the due date as specified on the form. Please note that you are not allowed to fax or post your application form to the National Office. Als o ensure the form you fill in is an original one (printed in colour). All forms should have been received at the National Office by 20 April 2006. CHOICES OF HEALTH FACILITIES You should make five choices on the space provided in the application form. Your five choices should be from five different districts. You are only allowed to choose one facility per district. Refer to the attached list of health facilities (Information brochure) to check the different facilities in various districts and provinces. Any applicant who deviates from this guide will be disqualified and automatically reserved for the second round without prior notice PERMANENT AND STUDENT ADDRESSES Please indicate in the area provided for Current Address, your address and telephone number where you are staying whilst studying. In the area provided for Permanent Address indicate your address and telephone number through which it will be possible to contact you during holidays and/or weekends. It is important for us to be able to get in contact with you at any time. If you are unable to provide any of the requested telephone numbers, please provide the telephone number of a relative or friend who is in regular contact with you. Please inform this Department of any change of address and/or telephone number. SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES Supporting documentation must be attached. Note that any information in this regard will be verified and if found to be untrue, your placement could be altered and disciplinary steps will be taken against you by the Health Professions Council of South Africa. Please note that special circumstances will NOT guarantee a placement at your hospital of first or subsequent choice. As mentioned at the bottom of the application form, if the space provided for your motivation for special circumstances is not sufficient, kindly use a neat separate sheet to do so. Also ensure that the separate sheet has your particulars so that it s not lost or misplaced if detached. 2
BURSARY HOLDERS If you are a bursary holder, you must do your community service in the province/ department from which you have received your bursary. If for any reason it is impossible for you to do your community service in that province/ department, you must take the matter up, as soon as possible, with the province/ department concerned and ask them to inform the Department of Health in Pretoria, IN WRITING, if they are releasing you from your obligation. No application form from bursary holders who choose health facilities outside the bursary-granting province/ department will be accepted without the province's/ department s consent. Please note that it is your responsibility to contact the province/ department in this regard, before sending in your application form and make sure you still keep to the due date. SAMHS BURSARY HOLDERS If you are on the establishment of the Department of Defence, South African Military Health Services (SAMHS) or a civilian bursary holder you will be allocated to a military hospital and you should apply accordingly. ALLOCATIONS The Department of Health will sort the applications per province(s) of choice and send them to the respective provinces for their selections before 28 August 2006. All efforts will be made to accommodate you at one of your first five choices of health facilities using the set criteria of allocation. Applicants who could not be offered a post at one of their first five choices, will be requested to apply for the second round from 22 June 2006 on an appropriate application form that will be provided to them. All allocations will be finalized during a Ratification meeting scheduled for 11 September 2006. Please note that this date is subject to change. You will receive a letter of appointment from the relevant province (to which you are allocated) from 18 September 2006. All prospective community service health professionals should have received their letters of appointment for community service 2007 by (latest) 22 September 2006. If for any reason by this date you have not received your appointment letter, you are kindly requested to contact the province/ department to which you were allocated (and not the National Office) as soon as possible. SWOPPING OF POSTS Please note that NO swops and transfers are allowed. 3
FOREIGN APPLICANTS The following is the position of the Department regarding foreign applicants for community service: GENERAL 1. Applications of foreign dental students, qualified in South Africa, whose parents are practicing in this Country since the 1980's, could be considered for Community Service in South Africa; 2. In general as from 2000, no foreign dentists will be considered for Community Service in South Africa. Should anything in this process be unclear to you, please feel free to contact any of the Provincial Coordinators as outlined on the attached list of contact persons. Applicants are discouraged from calling the National Office unnecessarily without having contacted any of the provincial coordinators. Please find attached (apart from the application form), detailed information on the approved health facilities and the list of all provincial coordinators with their contact numbers. Wishing you the best in you career. Kind regards DEPUTY DIRECTOR-GENERAL: HUMAN RESOURCES DATE: 4
PROVINCIAL COORDINATORS PROVINCE COORDINATORS ADDRESS EASTERN CAPE Mr BL Ntondini (Therapists) Tel: 040 609 3437 Fax:040 635 1132 Mr D Bezana (Environmental Health) Tel: 040 609 4304/8 Fax: 040 699 4309 Private Bag X 0038 BISHO 5605 loram.ntondini@impilo.ecape.gov.za david.bezana@impilo.ecprov.gov.za FREE STATE GAUTENG KZN LIMPOPO MPUMALANGA NORTH WEST NORTHERN CAPE WESTERN CAPE Dr NP Mkabayi (Clinical Pyschology) Tel: 040 609 3941 Fax: 040 609 3903 Ms B Coetzee Tel: 051 408 1164 Fax: 051 408 1980 Ms Y Skosana Tel:011 355 3429/33 Fax:011 355 3439 Mr P Cheyne Tel: 033 395 2202 Fax:033 845 0234 Ms P Moetlo (Env ironmental Health) Tel: 015 293 6062/3 Fax: 015 293 6281 Mr E Luruli (Thepapists) Tel:015 293 6100/6093 Fax:015 293 6211 Dr R Tuinessen (Clinical Psychology) Tel: 015 277 7551 Mrs G Shabangu Tel:013 766 3347 Fax:013 766 3458/66 Mr S Lenong Tel:018 387 5699/8 Fax:018 384 7503 Ms L Nyati-Mokotso Tel:053 830 0635/6/7 Fax:053 830 0655 Ms B P Arries Tel:021 483 3570 Fax:021 483 5294 Ms A Williams Tel:021 483 3843 Cel:082 502 8980 Fax:021 483 2992 mkabayin@hivsa.com P O Box 227 BLOEMFONTEIN 9300 coetzeeb@fshealth.gov.za Private Bag X085 MARSHALTOWN 2107 yv onnes@gpg.gov.za Private Bag X 9051 PIETERMARITZBURG 3200 cheynep@dohho.kzntl.gov.za Private Bag X 9302 PIETERSBURG 0700 lurulie@dhw.norprov.gov.za Private Bag X 11285 NELSPRUIT 1200 gabisiles@social.mpu.gov.za Private Bag X 11285 MMABATHO 2735 slenong@nw pg.gov.za Private Bag X 5021 KIMBERLEY 8300 sedoyle@kbhsp.ncape.gov.za lmlmokotso@kbhsp.ncape.gov.za 4 Dors Street CAPE TOWN 8000 barries@pgw c.gov.za amwilliam@pgwc.gov.za 5
SAMHS DCS NATIONAL DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH Brig Gen H C Grobler (Occupational Therapy, Radiography, and Physiotherapy) Tel:012 671 5080/5229 Fax:012 671 5217/663 8045 Brig Gen SJD Eygelaar (Clinical Psychology) Tel:012 671 5310 Col H S Venter (Env ironmental Health) Tel:012 671 5201 Fax:012 671 5160 Col L Jacobs (Dietetics and Speech) Tel: 012 671 5221 Dr L Bergh Tel:012 307 2203 Fax: 012 328 7565 Ms PFF Zulu Tel: 012 312 0513 Fax: 012 312 0913/3120562 Private Bag X 102 CENTURION 0046 Private Bag x 136 PRETORIA 0001 Loranda.bergh@dcs.gov.za Private Bag X 828 PRETORIA 0001 Zulup@health.gov.za Therapists: Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Radiography, Dietetics and Speech and Hearing Therapy 6