EASTERN CAPE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH - NOMINATIONS FOR PERSONS TO SERVE ON GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES IN DISTRICT HEALTH CARE FACILITIES

 
MINIMUM COMPETENCIES 
 Ability to liaise on health issues across the local community 
 Patriotic interest and willingness to support improvement of health services for benefit of community health and wellbeing 
 Understanding and ability to explain health systems, principles and practises to communities objectively. 
 Interest to support provisioning of added value to healthcare service delivery towards ensuring high quality patient experience of care. 
 Positive motive, attitude and ability to identify and redress gaps in healthcare needs of local communities and advocate for improvement thereof with management
 Ethical behaviour, listening and communicative competency with intercultural and diversity understanding 
 
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 
Liaison, Support and Oversight role to: 
 Provide an oversight on governance and strategic implementation of prescribed policies and health care services 
 Attend quarterly and adhoc governance structure meetings, trainings and ensure effective community participation and information sharing to and from communities. 
 Support management towards improving quality of health services to be effective, efficient and complying with the purpose of health facility existence 
 Foresee and proactively report abuse, unacceptable behaviour or illegal and unconstitutional conduct in health facilities for prevention and redress purposes 
 
Advisory role: 
 The member must align himself/herself to the mission, values and principles of health sector. 
 Advise health facility management on health service gaps and needs of communities. 
 Assist in addressing challenges affecting dignity of health services consumers 
 
Advocacy role to: 
 To protect constitutional rights of communities by promoting acceptable and equitable healthcare services. 
 To ensure that health institutions, systems and rules provide value add. 
 Act in best interest of health facility and the surrounding communities it serves 
 Provide purposeful advisory leadership to Health Facility Management on risk and improvement factors of service delivery 
 
Support and Reporting role: 
 To develop a fundraising strategy and plan, that will enable the Structure to leverage additional financial resources beyond the annual government allocation, for supporting the health facility in all inadequacies requiring financial resources 
 Ensure that there are quarterly reports and accountability to the Member of Executive for Health. 
 

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N.B. Nominations / Applications must be done by recognised community organisations on a “Governance Structure Nomination Form” obtainable from each health facility, which must be stamped by the nominating community organisation, and submitted with a concise CV, certified copy of ID and an official Nomination Letter written of the Letter Head of the nominating community organization should be forwarded to: 
FACILITY NAME LOCALITY FACILITY MANAGER/CONTACT PERSON CONTACT No. 
 
CLOSING DATE: 20 November 2020 
 
The notice is issued by the Eastern Cape department of Health. 
 
This advert nullifies & replaces the hospital board recruitment advert issued on Daily Dispatch & Herald of 31/07/2020 and an erratum on Herald of 3/8/2020.