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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A Grade 12 Certificate, NQF level 7 tertiary qualification in Health Sciences. Current registration with a health professional body. A postgraduate qualification in Management or Health Sciences will be an added advantage.
A minimum of five (5) years management experience at senior management level in public health with at least three (3) years’ experience in hospital management.
Knowledge and understanding of district health systems including the management of regional and district hospitals. Knowledge and understanding of the legislations, related regulations and policies in the public sector in particular in the health sector and management of hospital.
A valid Driver’s Licence (with exception for persons with disabilities). Must be computer literate.
Duties :
Provide strategic leadership and management in the Chief Directorate to ensure alignment with its Annual, business and operational plans. Develop an integrated health care strategy for the province. Lead the coordination of centres of excellence, ensure equity of access to highly specialised services for Gauteng population and neighbouring provinces and implementation of departmental service plan.
Ensure decentralisation of services to appropriate levels of care. Develop and implement uniform systems of reporting to ensure accurate statistics particularly on highly specialised services. Implement cluster patient referral policy and system. Ensure that Hospital Boards are functional in all facilities.
Work collaboratively with CEOs of hospitals and finance branch to achieve a balanced budget. Identify clinical inefficiencies and develop uniform strategies to address them. Ensure staff utilisation in all hospitals, provide oversight on managing Commuted Overtime, RWOPS, placement of medical interns and Community Service professionals. Work closely with hospital CEOs on the procurement and management of equipment, medical supplies and medicines.
Ensure the modernisation of hospitals and digitisation of health records, Management of Minimum Data Set for Hospitals, ICU bed and criteria, early warning system and alert the Head of Department and Deputy Director-General of Clinical Services of impeding problems. Develop relevant Policies and standard operating procedure related to the management of hospital services.
Establish and maintain links with regional structures and the private sector. Provide Clinical Support and Advise to the HOD and Executive management in any way deemed appropriate and necessary.
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