Healthcare director
The job of a healthcare director
The primary role of a healthcare director is the organisation of care in one or more care units, and the management of the teams under his or her responsibility.
In charge of coordinating human and material resources and contributing to a facility’s care policy, the healthcare director’s aim is to improve the care of patients and their families. The healthcare director is at the heart of the system and focuses chiefly on patients by safeguarding the quality of the care provided.
Multi-skilled and offering a complete overall vision, the healthcare director is the tangible link between medical teams and all other actors in the facility.
What skills are required?
The healthcare director must be reactive, demonstrate an ability to listen, be flexible in their organisation and have a strong sense of responsibility. Interpersonal skills are also vital, since the healthcare director is the interface between patients, their family and friends, and the medical and paramedical teams.
Becoming a healthcare director is part of a personal career plan. As a key business player, the healthcare director – whether recruited internally or externally – must share and implement Elsan’s commitments: striving for optimal healthcare from both a technological and human perspective, and managing in an efficient and environmentally friendly way. They must also embody Elsan’s values of team spirit, social cohesion and attention to others .
How to become a healthcare director
A healthcare director should ideally hold a degree in Healthcare Management or, through a competitive examination, a diploma from the IFCS (Institut de Formation des Cadres de Santé). These courses are open to anyone holding a paramedical qualification, for example:
- Nurses
- Physiotherapists
- Dieticians
- Occupational therapists
- Medical electro-radiology operators
- Opticians
- Speech-language pathologists
- Podiatrists
- Pharmacy dispensers
- Psychomotor therapists
- Biomedical analysis laboratory technicians.
