The Department of Health aims to provide quality health services and ensure a caring climate for service users, implement best-practice health care strategies, create a positive work environment for staff, and provide appropriate and top-quality training for health workers. Our vision is to provide high-quality, efficient and accessible healthcare to transform people's lives. Our mission is to create an effective public healthcare system in Gauteng by ensuring we have the right people, skills, system and equipment to provide the care our patients need to live healthy and quality lives.
Grade12 Certificate or NQF Level 4. Computer literacy.
Duties :
Capture Data on DHIS. PPIPV3 (Perinatal Problem Identification Programme version 3) and ChildPIPV3 (Child Problem Identification Programme version 3) database and update institutions Health Information Management (HIM) databases. Conduct rapid data quality assessment on primary source before capturing. Follow up any discrepancies with relevant service provider.
Compile and submit routine reports, organise and conduct monthly hospital data interrogation meetings. Complete and sign a weekly summary form for use in monthly report. Assist timely preparation and submission of required reports based on the Work Plan of HIM Unit. Source data from both electronic (HIS) and manual system. Ensure that data is received regularly and follow up on non-submission. Ensure that the primary source of data is available and ready for audit.
Escalate poor quality data challenges to the supervisor: perform any other task to comply with Performance management and development System (Contracting, Mid-year assessment and final assessment. Experience or certificate in hospital data management system will be an added advantage.
Sound knowledge of National Health Programme Strategies process, data elements and indications will be an added advantage. Ability to liaise with internal and external stakeholder, ability to work under pressure. Ability to handle information confidentiality. Knowledge and application of Batho Pele Principles. Sound verbal and written communication skill.
Must be self-motivated to handle tasks of multidisciplinary nature. Knowledge of regulation and legislative framework related to health information management and the ability to interpret them. Perform other duties assigned by the supervisor that are related to the job description that is lawful.
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