Volunteer Roles

We recruit both South African and international healthcare professionals. There are three areas where a volunteer can contribute. You are welcome to focus on any of these areas or make your contribution across as many areas in which you feel comfortable.

Teaching: Skills transfer or more theoretical instruction.

If you have a teaching inclination there is huge scope, from bedside one-on-ones to more formal ward rounds, from guidance on antibiotic use to interpretation of ultrasound results and more, and the offering of specific content short courses.

Service: Involving direct or indirect patient care.

Some volunteers will be hands-on clinicians, others will be “backroomers” such as pathologists and radiologists. Your service options range from OPD sessions, theatre time and clinic outreach, through to result and radiology reporting.

Management support: “Auditing” equipment needs and availability.

This support ranges from clinical guidance (for example, theatre protocols and equipment audits) to clinical criteria for referral, as well as managerial level advice.

In addition to the above service areas, Tshemba has also partnered with the Mpumalanga Department of Health and Tintswalo Hospital to create a modern, state of the art, eye clinic and cataract operating theatre to screen and remedy common, treatable eye diseases. To date, Tshemba’s volunteering ophthalmologists, accompanied and assisted by volunteering optometrists and eye theatre nurses, have helped hundreds of people living in rural Mpumalanga.