Internship: Medical Management X1

The Road Accident Fund’s mission is to provide timely and equitable assistance to those affected by motor vehicle accidents through the provision of appropriate social benefits to ensure financial relief and recovery for qualifying individuals.

Purpose of the Internship: The Road Accident Fund is committed to youth skills development, providing graduates with an opportunity to gain work-based experience. Applications are invited for the Medical Management Internship from unemployed graduates between the age of 18 and 25. The Internship program will run for a period of eighteen (18) months. Verification process will be undertaken to verify whether you have previous work anywhere within the Republic of South Africa.

Work based exposure may include any of the following

• Medical Management -Assist with injury assessment administration, undertakings administration (drafting, issuing, activation, etc), caregiver management process
• Medical Management- Bill review: reviewing and processing of medical invoices for supplier claims, past medical expenses and future medical expenses.
• Medical Management – Use of risk management tools in bill review including use of medical tariffs, clinical codes and treatment protocol to ensure that all service providers adhere to the rules and the tariff as required by the RAF and managed healthcare principles.
• Exception Handling – Take part in the implementation and maintenance of a formal exception handling process within the medical management
• Maintain the documentation and regular updating of the exception handling process
• Stakeholder management – Follow-up and resolve all queries within the predefined turnaround times
• External Stakeholder engagement (e.g. Road shows, consulting with families of claimants, service providers, direct claimants etc.)
• General office administration, filing and data capturing related to the claims administration process.

Qualifications and other Requirements

• Certified Grade 12/ NQF 4 level certificate
• Certified copy of Relevant NQF 7 Bachelor’s Degree/ Advanced Diploma in Health Sciences/ Medical related qualification
• Certified copy of Registration certificate with HPCSA/SANC/SAPC or other regulatory board
• Certified copy of your ID
• Certified copy Academic transcript
• Your CV and motivational letter
• Knowledge of clinical coding, claims and managed healthcare will be added advantage

 Technical and behavioural competencies required

The successful candidate will be required to display the following competencies in this role

•   Client Service Orientation
•   Ethics and Values
•   Planning, Organising and Coordinating
•   Personal Mastery
•  Judgement and Decision Making

 Remuneration

The interns will be awarded a monthly stipend.

No hand delivered applications will be accepted.

INSTRUCTION TO PROSPECTIVE APPLICANTS

1. Indicate the province and the reference number for the Internship you are applying for on the subject line.
2. Submit a short CV and a motivational letter as to why your application should be considered with a maximum of 3 pages, applications with no academic transcript will not be considered.
3. Applicants are restricted to apply for a maximum of 3 positions only (to complete an application for each ref number)
4. Applicants must be unemployed, was never employed in the field of the post and never participated in an internship programme in the relevant field of the post previously
5. The applicant must not have previously served as intern before.
6. Should it be found that the applicant previously served as an intern and did not disclose that info and it is discovered later, the applicant will be disqualified.
7. Please note that the prospective employees will be subjected to security vetting

ONLY the first 100 applications will be considered

The Road Accident Fund subscribes to the principles of employment equity and preference will be given to People with Disabilities.

Applicants who have not received any correspondence from us within six weeks from the closing date can consider themselves unsuccessful.

Security Vetting shall be conducted on all prospective employees.

It is the applicants’ responsibility to have foreign qualification evaluated by the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA) and to provide proof of such evaluation.