Health Sector

Overview of the Sector

The health sector encompasses activities aimed at improving, maintaining, and restoring health through the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases, injuries, and other physical and mental conditions in humans. It encompasses primary, secondary, and specialized health care in facilities such as hospitals, clinics, laboratories, pharmacies, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, social service centers for the elderly and people with disabilities, and centers for preventive medicine and public health.

Mr. Mari Hamid Al-Qahtani

Deputy Minister of Health for Localization and Human Capital
“Establishing a comprehensive framework for sector-specific skills is an essential step toward developing a national workforce capable of achieving sustainability, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the labor market. This strengthens integration between the public and private sectors to develop and align training programs that reflect the actual and future needs of the market, thereby ensuring sustainable development and enhancing the quality of health care delivery.”

Members

Mona Al-Qahtani
Vice President for Education and Development
Mr. Muhammad al-Shawaqi
Council Expert
Mr. Ayman Al-Fahd
Assistant to the President for Human Capital
Mr. Abdo Azibi
Director of the Equivalency and Classification Division
Mr. Abdullah Al-Shahri
Representative of the National Committee of Workers' Committees—Health Sector
Ms. Ghada Al-Subhi
Director of Talent Acquisition
Mr. Adel Muhammad al-Awni
General Manager of Partnership Development
Mr. Haitham Qari
General Manager of Human Resources
Dr. Saud Al-Thumairi
Chair of the National Health Committee 
Mt Saud Al-Arini
Director of Human Resources and Administrative Affairs
Dr. Ziad Al-Harbi
Vice President
Mr. Samer Bukhari
Executive Vice President of Human Resources
Mr. Ahmad Al-Shamrani
Executive Vice President of Human Resources
Mr. Omar Al-Ajaji
Chair of the National Dental Sector Committee
Dr. Muhammad Ali Mar'i
Consulting General Manager
Mr. Muhammad Hajji
Member of the Pharmaceutical Companies Committee at the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce
Mr. Mari' al-Qahtani
Chief Administrative Officer  
Mr. Abdul-Ilah Muhammad Al-Yusuf
Chief Human Resources Officer at Dallah Healthcare Services

Sectoral Skills Framework

 A sectoral skills framework serves as a comprehensive tool for identifying the skills required in a sector; it specifies the skills needed for each job family within the sector’s value chains. The sectoral skills framework follows a systematic approach to identifying the skills required in the sector: first, job groups were identified within the subsectors, followed by the identification of key job roles, career paths, and priority skills. 
Groups and Career Paths
Develop an overview of the sector and its subsectors, the major trends in the sector, and the skills required in line with those trends, as well as identify job categories and career paths in the health sector.
Skills Dictionary
Provide details on the technical and soft skills associated with the main job categories in the Kingdom’s health sector.
Skills Database
The Excel tool serves as a supplementary publication to the Health Sector Skills Dictionary report and the introduction to the Health Sector Skills Framework. The tool focuses on two main types of skills: general skills and technical skills.

Professional Standards Framework

National documents outlining standards for the description of occupations and their associated jobs, including the knowledge, skills, requirements, and competencies necessary to perform job roles and tasks. This includes the application and use of these standards in various contexts depending on the users, such as human resources professionals, training centers, and others interested in human capacity building.

Partnerships

Strategic partnerships for sectoral skills councils are a fundamental pillar for helping to meet the evolving needs of the labor market, Integration between the public and private sectors and training and educational institutions is one of the cornerstones of the sectoral skills councils’ work; it helps bridge the skills gap between supply and demand, improves the quality of educational and training outcomes, and enhances the efficiency of human capital as the primary driver of national development.
Saudi Commission for Health Specialties
King Fahd Medical City
Health Academy (Prevention)
National Events Center

Training Programs

Programs that have been aligned with the skills framework to ensure that learning and training outcomes are consistent with the technical and general skills identified by the sectoral skills councils and included in the sectoral skills frameworks.