Health Facility and Accreditation Experts

Job Description

In the Philippines, the Duterte Administration carries on with the reform agenda for the health sector, anchored in good governance and inclusive growth that reduce poverty and enables the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. The Philippine Development Plan and the implementation framework for the Health Sector Reform Agenda, including the National Objectives for Health prioritized achieving universal health care (UHC) with a deliberate focus on equitable health care delivery and access to services and medicines. The Duterte Administration’s implementation framework to achieve UHC focuses on three main thrusts: attain and sustain universal health insurance, access to functional service delivery networks, protect from triple burden of diseases. The Philippine Health Sector Reform Contract (PHSRC), amounting to EUR 30 million represents the third EU sector budget support to the Health Sector Reform Agenda of the Government of the Philippines. The PHSRC supports the national sector programme on UHC and gives particular consideration to critical challenges to increase the capacity and commitment of local governments to deliver health services and to ensure effective and sustainable implementation of health reforms at the local level, especially for the poor.

Services required: Needs Assessment Analysis to Build Capacity of DOH Health Facility Regulatory Officers

Work day inputs and duration of assignment: a total of 60 working days: 30 working days for the Lead Expert and 30 working days for the second expert.

Location of assignment: Health Facilities and Services Regulatory Bureau (HFSRB), DOH, Central Office and RHO, Philippines

The regulatory functions of the DOH are vested upon among others to the Health Facilities and Services Regulatory Bureau (HFSRB), mandated to set regulatory policies and standards for the licensing, accreditation and monitoring of health facilities and services to ensure quality health care. Several regulatory reforms that were undertaken for the past years through the One Stop Shop Licensing Process has managed to streamline and harmonize the licensing process with the issuance of a single license for hospitals to operate. Also part of the regulatory reform strategy undertaken was the decentralization of the hospital licensing to the Regional Offices (ROs) that made it accessible for stakeholders to apply for or renew their licenses, thus also reducing cost and the amount of time involved in such transaction.

There is a need to analyze and document the problems, needs, challenges and support intervention in the context of the DOH Rationalization Plan and personnel turnover at the RO and at the DOH-HFSRB central office. The challenges include among others, the need to have a multidisciplinary team of RHO regulatory officers with the expertise to carry out highly differentiated technical processes and tools in the standardizing the conduct of inspections, evaluation, processing and monitoring of health facilities and services. There is also a need to strengthen the capability of HFSRB regulatory officers in carrying out monitoring, surveillance as well as oversight functions over the ROs.

Overall Objective

To identify the priority problems, issues and concerns affecting the work of the RHO regulatory officers, to determine the corresponding training interventions that will be conducted as one-day training pilot course to enhance and standardize the performance of their duties and responsibilities.

Specific Objectives

1. Identify priority problems, issues and concerns and determine the corresponding support interventions;
2. Provide the appropriate recommendations including the development of a training course with training materials;
3. Plan and conduct the proposed training pilot course involving selected DOH central and regional regulatory officers;
4. Document the highlights of this TOR undertaking, including identified gaps, assessment and recommendations and undertaking relative to enhancement and standardization of the regulatory officers’ performance;
5. Conduct project consultation meetings as needed including debriefing and project completion report.

This assignment will be carried by 2 consultants, a lead consultant and a second expert with the following qualifications:

Lead Expert NKE1:

• Master’s degree in health management or equivalent subjects related to health facilities licensing, accreditation, certification and regulatory processes;
• Minimum 10 years’ relevant work experience gained in at least 3 developing countries and at least 5 years outside of the Philippines. Relevant experience in Southeast Asia is an asset;
• Direct involvement in trainings and other support intervention activities related to licensing, accreditation, certification and the health regulatory processes;
• Expertise in institutional or organizational development specific to health facilities accreditation and licensing;
• Mandatory requirement: fluency in English and Microsoft office applications.

NKE2:

• Master’s degree in health management or equivalent subjects related to health facilities licensing, accreditation, certification and regulatory processes;
• Minimum 5 years’ relevant work experience gained in the Philippines or relevant experience in Southeast Asia is an asset;
• Direct involvement in trainings and other support intervention activities related to licensing, accreditation, certification and the health regulatory processes;
• Expertise in institutional development specific to health facilities accreditation and licensing;
• Mandatory requirement: fluency in English and Microsoft office applications.

To obtain more information or to submit your CV, please contact: Frederica Andriamanantena,

Technical Assistance Coordination and Quality Assurance Officer,

Email: frederica.andriamanantena@epos.de

With subject line: Reg. Officers

About the Organization

EPOS Health Management, headquartered in Germany, was founded in 1985 as an independent worldwide provider of consulting services in the health sector. Today EPOS is the German market leader in donor-financed health care consulting.

We specialise in planning, management, and implementation as well as monitoring and evaluation of projects, services and programmes in the health sector in developing and threshold countries. Our Quality Management System is regularly audited and certified according to ISO 9001:2008 standards.

Following a participatory approach, EPOS has implemented more than 400 health projects in nearly 75 countries over the last 25 years in the areas of:

• Health Policy and Financing
• Integrated Primary Health Care
• Health Facilities and Services

Being part of the GOPA Group, EPOS belongs to one of the strongest consulting groups in Europe.

epos Beratungsgesellschaft, an independent healthcare consulting firm, is a sister-company within the EPOS group.