KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC -The Jamaica authorities mentioned Monday that it expects greater than 600 jobs to be out there when it hosts the two-day Well being & Wellness Profession Expo & Employment, which will get underway on Wednesday.
The occasion, “A Profession in Well being: Roadmap to Success,” is being organized by the Ministry of Well being & Wellness in collaboration with the Ministry of Training, Abilities, Youth, and Data. It will likely be held on the Mona campus of the College of the West Indies.
The ministry mentioned the expo and job honest reply to prevailing challenges to human sources in well being, together with the restricted availability of execs in some specialist areas, migration, and competitors from abroad recruiters.
“This occasion will progress Jamaica’s journey to ‘making certain human sources for well being in adequate quantity and competencies, aligned to the mannequin of care and dedicated to the mission’ to safeguard the absolute best well being outcomes for all,” mentioned Well being and Wellness Minister, Dr. Christopher Tufton.
“As a Ministry of Well being and Wellness, we’re dedicated to getting forward of the human sources for well being challenges. The dimensions of this occasion and its prioritization of the wants of scholars, profession changers, jobseekers, and others curious to seek out out what it takes to reach public well being signifies that,” he added.
The ministry mentioned that the two-day occasion permits members of the general public to vie for greater than 600 job vacancies islandwide. It famous that each one classes of staff are required, from data and analysis officers to monitoring and analysis officers, drivers, workplace attendants and accountants, managers and administrators in program administration, docs, nurses, psychologists, well being informatics professionals, and many others.
It mentioned that along with the job alternatives, the occasion will showcase the vary of profession choices and the completely different skilled teams in well being. Attendees will even profit from enrichment classes that function, amongst different issues, resume writing and easy methods to finance a profession in well being.
The ministry mentioned that members will even be uncovered to the Dr. Barrington Wint Scholarship, which supplies as much as a million Jamaican {dollars} (One Jamaican greenback = US$0.008 cents) per recipient for as much as 5 years.
Wint is a former chief medical officer, and the scholarship is open to Jamaicans pursuing well being research.
