Durban: NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE posted by Isilumko Staffing

About the Role

The National Health Laboratory Service is seeking a strategic leader to provide oversight for the Division, gather key data, and provide provinces and the NDoH with strategic information to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership to foster coherence and collaboration across the Division and Centres to align organisational priorities to strengthen national and global health security.
• Leads the development of a clear departmental vision in alignment with organisational strategy to ensure effective direction, management, and accountability of the specific programme areas managed by the incumbent in delivering its objectives.
• Builds new or strengthens existing partnerships with the National Department of Health, Provincial Departments of Health, World Health Organization, CDC USA, CDC-Europe, Funders, universities/research institutions, and other stakeholders to position the technical area of work and implementation into National and/or Global health security policies.
• Responsible for outbreak detection, investigation, and response in partnership with the district and provincial departments of health.
• Lead and coordinate the NICD’s participation in the IHR-related activities and National Action Plans for Health Security.
• Represent the Division/NICO in global forums to position the area of work in the regional and global health community.
• Ensure the development, maintenance, and enhancements of surveillance and reporting on communicable disease, including the GER MS platform; Notifiable Medical Conditions; Event-based surveillance and other relevant surveillance systems to ensure rapid detection and response to specific infectious hazards.
• Direct the training and capacity-building initiatives for healthcare professionals in epidemic and pandemic response to specific infectious hazards.
• Responsible for communication across the NlCD Centres, with National and Provincial Departments of Health and other stakeholders through routine communication.
• Leading the development of guidelines, implementation, and dissemination of technical guidelines, comprehensive epidemic and pandemic preparedness plans.
• Maintenance of website and other communication channels.
• Oversee the implementation of health, safety, and environmental requirements to ensure the implementation of all necessary processes, procedures, and legislation.

Requirements

• MBChB MMed/FCP (Microbiology/Nirology/Clinical Pathology Infectious Diseases)
• HPCSA registered specialist in Clinical/Microbiology or Profogy
• 13 to 15 years Management experience preferably in a public health institution
• B to 10 years communicable diseases/public health experience/epidemiology/infectious diseases

Qualifications

• Formal education/certifications not mentioned.

Salary & Benefits

• Salary and benefits information not mentioned.