Job Summary
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- Job posted on: 15th Apr 2021
The Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security (CHS) was established in 2017 to implement the Australian Government’s Health Security Initiative for the Indo-Pacific Region. The Initiative, which is funded through Australia’s overseas aid program, aims to inform evidence-based planning, help prevent avoidable epidemics, strengthen early detection capacity, and support rapid, effective national and international outbreak responses. It does this by accelerating research on new drugs and diagnostics, expanding partnerships at the national, regional and global level to strengthen human and animal health systems, and deepening people-to-people linkages that build national and regional health security capacity.
In 2020 CHS has played a key role in Australia’s response to the regional impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Commencing in 2021, Australia is assisting 18 countries to roll out the COVID-19 vaccine through the VAX Taskforce.
The CHS supports countries in Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, the Philippines, Timor-Leste and Vietnam) and the Pacific (Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and small island nations such as Tuvalu, Tonga and Kiribati).
Cardno International Development is supporting the implementation of several activities delivered as part of the initiative across the Indo Pacific and Southeast Asia.
The Director of Medical Services (DMS) will be working in accordance with the policies and strategies of the Health Department, in order to provide a health service which is of high quality, affordable, accessible and readily available to the people of Nauru.
DMS is one of a team of Directors who are jointly responsible for the daily operation of the Nauru Department of Health and who form the core of the Health Executive. The Directors report to the Secretary for Health and Medical Services and in addition to their role in the overall management of all operational activities of the Nauru Ministry of Health, they are key providers of policy advice and support to the Deputy Secretary, Secretary and the Nauru Ministry of Health. Copy and paste this link into your web browser to view the Terms of Reference (ToR): https://www.cardno.com/media/7144/tor-director-medical-services-nauru_final.pdf
The DMS is essentially the hospital administrator with a scope of wider ranging Departmental responsibilities. The Director of Medical Services is directly responsible for coordinating all medical staff and the delivery of clinical services, as well as the clinical allied health services such as laboratory, pharmacy and radiology. This includes coordinating the services and personnel for whom the Director is responsible, in relation to the delivery of public health and other wider Departmental services.
For a full list of duties and responsibilities please view the ToR.
Qualifications
An MBBS with high level experience and a record of success in similar roles.
Essential
Desirable
This position will be remunerated in line with the Australian Government’s Adviser Remuneration Framework (ARF) https://www.dfat.gov.au/sites/default/files/adviser-remuneration-framework-2016.pdf and will be offered at a level commensurate to the successful candidates experience relevant to the role, within the following band Discipline Group C, Job Level 4.
We thank all applicants however due to anticipated volumes of applications only the shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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