Deputy Director: Employee Health and Wellness at Northern Cape Department Of Health

REQUIREMENTS :

• An appropriate three-year, NQF 6 qualification in Social Work/Social Science or Psychology or Occupational Health and Safety Management.
• Five years’ working experience in an EHW environment in the public sector of which three years must be at supervisory level. Registration with a Professional Body. Ability to manage highly confidential information. Relevant Employee Health and Wellness programme training. 

DUTIES :

• The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and facilitating approval of the Wellness Operational Plan for the financial year, coordinating awareness sessions, marketing and communication campaigns on the Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) services from the EAP service provider to encourage the optimum utilisation of EAP services; facilitating managerial consultancy and supervisory engagement on employees’ matters; managing critical incidences of trauma to troubled employees for further referral;
• coordinating and monitoring the implementation of the Departmental Sports and Recreation Programme; conducting trend analysis on the implementation of the external EAP services and in-house EAP interventions to determine the effectiveness of the services; conducting exit interviews with leaving officials from the department and compiling a report; conducting project planning meeting, quality check of the submission and project plan on all EHW interventions and Health Calendar Event; developing and facilitating approval of the SHERQ Operational Plan for the financial year; facilitating the presentation of the annual implementation plan to the external service provider for the promotion of Occupational Diseases and Health Education Programmes;
• conduct trend analysis on the implementation of Injury-on-Duty and First Aid based on the OHS prescripts in the department and compile a report on the findings; coordinate and compile the report on the DPSA Systems Monitoring Tool (SMT) by liaising with relevant units within the department; facilitate appointments of OHS representatives to monitor health and safety in the department; coordinating SHERQ committee meetings; managing and facilitating the provision of employee wellness and implementation of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) programmes; developing and facilitating approval of the Health and Productivity Management Operational Plan for the financial year; coordinating the implementation of the Healthy Lifestyle Programme to address diseases and psycho-somatic challenges conducting planning meetings, quality checking submissions and project plan on Health and Productivity Management programme and Health Calendar to present the proposal to the approving authority;
• monitoring the implementation of the Occupational Health Education and Promotion in line with the Employee Needs Survey Report; analysing the trend of sick leave and ill health, including incapacity leave to detect the level of abuse of sick leave by staff members to determine if there are possible wellness interventions required; developing and facilitating approval of the HIV & AIDS, STIs and TB Operational Plan for the financial year; conducting trend analysis on the HIV and AIDS Testing and TB Mainstreaming Framework; assessing cases referred; developing treatment plan; providing services of the needs identified; rendering critical incidences of trauma to troubled employees.