Profession healthcare consultant

Healthcare consultants advise health care organisations on the development of plans to improve patient care and safety. They analyse health care policies and identify issues, and aid in the development of improvement strategies.

Personality Type

• Enterprising / Conventional

Knowledge

• Manage healthcare staff

  The managerial tasks and responsibilities required in a health care setting.

• Health care legislation

  The patients` rights and responsibilities of health practitioners and the possible repercussions and prosecutions in relation to medical treatment negligence or malpractice.

• Public health

  The principles of health and sickness affecting the population, including the means for health promotion and prevention and community and primary care.

• Government policy implementation

  The procedures related to the application of government policies at all levels of public administration.

• Health care system

  The structure and function of health care services.

Skills

• Advise policy makers in healthcare

  Present research to policy makers, health care providers, and educators to encourage improvements in public health.

• Analyse community needs

  Identify and respond to specific social problems in a community, delineating the extent of the problem and outline the level of resources required to address it and identifying the existing community assets and resources that are available to address the problem.

• Contribute to public health campaigns

  Contribute to local or national public health campaigns by evaluating health priorities, the government changes in regulations and advertising the new trends in relation to health care and prevention.

• Assess health services within the community

  Assess the effectiveness and efficiency of health services for the community with a view to its improvement.

• Implement policy in healthcare practices

  Establish how policies should be interpreted and translated within the practice, implementing local and national policies, as well as those of your own practice and proposing developments and improvements to service delivery.

• Maintain relationships with government agencies

  Establish and maintain cordial working relationships with peers in different governmental agencies.

• Comply with legislation related to health care

  Comply with the regional and national legislation that is relevant to one`s work and apply it in practice.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB