The Ministry for Health consists of around 8,000 public service employees ranging from professional, technical, managerial, support staff and clerical categories amongst others. Since the Ministry for Health provides a public health service to society, the majority of the workforce is made up of various healthcare professionals and para-professional staff, who offer a multi-disciplinary service to the general public.
Each healthcare profession is covered by a sectoral agreement which offers the opportunity of a career progression in a structured manner and pay packages related to the specific profession.
These categories include:
- Allied Health Professionals
- Allied Assistants
- Dental Class
- Dental Surgery Assistants
- Decontamination Technicians
- Electrocardiography Technicians
- Emergency Ambulance Responders
- Environmental Health Officers
- Medical Class
- Medical Physics Class
- Nursing & Midwifery Class
- Pharmacy Class
- Pharmacy Technicians
- Phlebotomy Technicians
- Psychology Class
- Scientific Class
- Social Work Class