Job Description
The incumbent will be responsible for strategic health planning, the development of strategic policies, priorities and plans for the provision of the highest quality of health care in the Region in an efficient, professional, safe and effective manner. The policies, priorities and plans will be informed by health needs assessment and demographic clinical activity data analyses. The Director of Health will be responsible for oversight of clinical programmes and the practice of all clinical personnel throughout the RHA. He /She is also responsible for evaluation of health/clinical services provided by the RHA.
The Authority reserves the right to assign the officer to any Facility under its management.
Key and Critical Responsibilities
STRATEGIC/LEADERSHIP
- Provides policy direction in the management of all areas of health service delivery and to advise the Chief Executive Officer and Board of Directors on health matters in the Region.
- Ensures policy translation, implementation, coordination, monitoring and evaluation.
- Provides leadership and supervisory role in the execution of health/clinical programmes and activities.
- Ensures the health needs assessment data informs policy, programmes, priorities and plans.
- Sets and coordinates work to achieve targets in the Region.
- Leads in the development and implementation of systems for monitoring and evaluation of clinical care and public health programmes (including health promotion).
- Provides leadership to ensure translation and adaptation of national health policies, procedures, guidelines and management systems within the health institutions in the region.
- Leads the health care team in determining and introducing new health technologies for improving service delivery.
- Assists in promoting the corporate image of SWRHA.
- Ensures the planning and budgeting for delivery of health services is completed.
- Contributes to policy formulation analysis and review.
- Contributes to short, medium and long term strategic planning and development.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
TACTICAL/MANAGERIAL
- Develops and monitors the Regional Health Plan within the context of the Ministrys National Health Plan and the policies of the South-West Regional Health Authority across the continuum.
- Establishes systems for conducting assessments of health programmes and providing pertinent information to the respective heads for decision making.
- Identifies areas for the development of both clinical and educational programmes and provide recommendations for the future direction for health promotion.
- Ensures that systems are instituted to review, monitor and evaluate all clinical services in order to ensure that the delivery of health care is efficient, professional and of the highest quality.
- Facilitates the integration of all levels of clinical services across the continuum from primary through secondary to tertiary care.
- Works closely with Clinical Heads of the Health Care Facilities to ensure quality health care delivery, and the implementation of established systems and protocols to minimize risk and liability.
- Promotes clinical research, particularly to improve quality of service delivery.
- Conducts ongoing health technology assessments (HTA) of systems and products, related to identifying and meeting patient needs.
- Collaborates with medical, nursing and Allied staff in preparing the health/clinical programmes input as well as service targets.
- Consults/Collaborates with the Executive Management Team in the development of the Regions annual budget.
- Collaborates with the relevant department in conducting evaluation of all health programmes.
- Represents the Region nationally, regionally and internationally in matters of health and health care delivery.
- Provides advice to the Board of Directors and the CEO on matters relating to the delivery of health care.
- Represents the Board of Directors and the Chief Executive Officer on any Committee so assigned.
- Serve as the Secretary of the Clinical Governance Committee.
- All other related duties and functions as determined by the Board of Directors and the Chief Executive Officer.
- Ability to perform duties according to assigned rosters or plans that can be formulated in times of authorized service exigencies.
- Ability to use the relevant computer applications related to job functions.
PRIMARY
- Confers with the Heads of Institutions and Clinical Facilities, Heads of Departments and other key personnel in SWRHA to ensure the efficient running of services, the implementation of programmes, the performance of medical staff and planning of future services
- Confers with professional and technical staff to ensure implementation of policies and procedures in health care, disease prevention and health promotion programmes.
SECONDARY
- Establishes and implements mechanisms for maximizing the involvement of the Community, Voluntary and Non-Governmental Organizations in the formulation and implementation of plans for the delivery of health care.
- Establishes relationships with the private health care delivery institutions and the business community with a view to enhancing the quality of health care in the region.
- Creates and maintains links with Local, Regional and International Health Agencies (such as Caribbean Epidemiology Centre, Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization) for transfer of technology and assisting with funding of health care projects.
Key Competencies
- The officer must be a registered specialist medical practitioner with the Medical Board of Trinidad & Tobago and in good standing with the Medical Board. The Officer must be Specialist Medical Officer/ Consultant or equivalent for a minimum of eight (8) years. The Name of the Officer shall be listed in the Specialist Register.
- The incumbent is required to possess post-graduate qualification in a health related field with extensive senior management experience.
- The incumbent MUST have at least ten (10) years senior management experience in a similar or related job function, or, a combination of clinical experience and management training.
- Applicants must have considerable strategic, interpersonal and analytic skills with a deep understanding and appreciation of the strategic and operational challenges of the health sector.
- The ideal candidate must be performance driven and keen to achieve results.
