Public health policy officers develop and implement strategies for the improvement of a community’s health care policy. They advise governments on policy changes and identify problems in current health care policies.
The following job titles also refer to public health policy officer:
healthcare services planning officer
health service manager
healthcare planning officer
healthcare planner
general manager healthcare
healthcare admistrator
general manager
ISCO skill level is defined as a function of the complexity and range of tasks and duties to be performed in an occupation. It is measured on a scale from 1 to 4, with 1 the lowest level and 4 the highest, by considering:
the nature of the work performed in an occupation in relation to the characteristic tasks and duties
the level of formal education required for competent performance of the tasks and duties involved and
the amount of informal on-the-job training and/or previous experience in a related occupation required for competent performance of these tasks and duties.
Public health policy officer is a Skill level 4 occupation.
These occupations require some skills and knowledge of public health policy officer. They also require other skills and knowledge, but at a higher ISCO skill level, meaning these occupations are accessible from a position of public health policy officer with a significant experience and/or extensive training.
This knowledge should be acquired through learning to fulfill the role of public health policy officer.
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. Government policy implementation: The procedures related to the application of government policies at all levels of public administration. Public health: The principles of health and sickness affecting the population, including the means for health promotion and prevention and community and primary care. Health care system: The structure and function of health care services.
These skills are necessary for the role of public health policy officer.
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. Address public health issues: Promote healthy practices and behaviours to ensure that populations stay healthy. Work within communities: Establish social projects aimed at community development and active citizen participation. Lead healthcare services changes: Identify and lead changes in healthcare service in response to patient needs and service demand in order to ensure continuous quality improvement of the service. 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. Analyse health problems within a given community: Effectively assess the healthcare needs and problems of a community. 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. Promote inclusion: Promote inclusion in health care and social services and respect diversity of beliefs, culture, values and preferences, keeping in mind the importance of equality and diversity issues. Provide improvement strategies: Identify root causes of problems and submit proposals for effective and long-term solutions. Assess health services within the community: Assess the effectiveness and efficiency of health services for the community with a view to its improvement.
This knowledge is sometimes, but not always, required for the role of public health policy officer. However, mastering this knowledge allows you to have more opportunities for career development.
These skills and competences are sometimes, but not always, required for the role of public health policy officer. However, mastering these skills and competences allows you to have more opportunities for career development.
Carry out strategic research: Research long term possibilities for improvements and plan steps to achieve them. Advise policy makers in healthcare: Present research to policy makers, health care providers, and educators to encourage improvements in public health. Maintain relations with local representatives: Maintain good relations with representatives of the local scientific, economic and civil society. Monitor regulations in social services: Monitor and analyse regulations, policies and changes in these regulations in order to assess how they impact social work and services. Liaise with local authorities: Maintain the liaison and exchange of information with regional or local authorities. Build community relations: Establish affectionate and long-lasting relationships with local communities, e.g. by organising special programms for kindergarden, schools and for dissabled and older people, raising awareness and receiving community appreciation in return. Maintain relationships with government agencies: Establish and maintain cordial working relationships with peers in different governmental agencies. Apply strategic thinking: Apply generation and effective application of business insights and possible opportunities, in order to achieve competitive business advantage on a long-term basis. Conduct health related research: Conduct research in health related topics and communicate findings orally, through public presentations or by writing reports and other publications. Report analysis results: Produce research documents or give presentations to report the results of a conducted research and analysis project, indicating the analysis procedures and methods which led to the results, as well as potential interpretations of the results. Report on social development: Report results and conclusions on society’s social development in an intelligible way, presenting these orally and in written form to a range of audiences from non-experts to experts. Perform project management: Manage and plan various resources, such as human resources, budget, deadline, results, and quality necessary for a specific project, and monitor the project’s progress in order to achieve a specific goal within a set time and budget. Analyse goal progress: Analyse the steps which have been taken in order to reach the organisation’s goals in order to assess the progress which has been made, the feasibility of the goals, and to ensure the goals can be met according to deadlines. Manage government policy implementation: Manage the operations of the implementation of new government policies or changes in existing policies on a national or regional level as well as the staff involved in the implementation procedure. Implement strategic planning: Take action on the goals and procedures defined at a strategic level in order to mobilise resources and pursue the established strategies. Perform market research: Gather, assess and represent data about target market and customers in order to facilitate strategic development and feasibility studies. Identify market trends.
