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.
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Matric and appropriate three (3) year National Diploma or Degree from a recognized SAQA accredited tertiary institution in Public Relations/ Communication Science/ Communication management or Journalism.
At least three (3) years’ experience as Communication Officer. Skills: sound interpersonal relations, project planning skills, ability to prepare reports.
Good communication skills both verbal and written. Must be computer literate. Knowledge: Good understanding and knowledge of communication must have a valid driver’s licence.
Duties :
Plan, implement and oversee both internal and external communication. Formulate and implement communication strategies. Coordinate outreach and communication activities.
Manage effectively and economically the hospital resources for public education, public relations, media services and stakeholder relations. Drive and coordinate generation of good news to cater for various media platforms and formats inclusive of corporate publications, media statements, electronics media, social media, visual and audio, live interviews.
Coordinate responses to media enquiries and legislature Reponses. Provide communication support to the various department’s events and activities. Ensure that hospital has adequate communication materials and publications at all times.
Publish quarterly internal newsletters, coordination of the annual open day events. Manage and develop content for hospital’s social media accounts. Carry out photo coverage in all events, implement social media strategy in line with departmental corporate identity with cooperate identity manual.
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