9Health assessment

9 Health assessment

9 Health assessment

(cf rule 9 GSE (General) Rules 2014)

(1) This rule applies to a Health executive whose engagement in the NSW Health Service is made subject to a condition that the executive’s fitness to perform the duties of the executive role to which the executive is assigned has been confirmed by a health assessment.

(2) For the purposes of this rule, fitness to perform the duties of a role includes the ability to carry out the executive role without endangering the health and safety of the public, of other persons employed in the NSW Health Service or of the executive concerned.

(3) The form of the health assessment may include (but is not limited to) any one or more of the following:

(a) a declaration (which may be a statutory declaration if required) provided by the Health executive concerning any illness, disability or condition of which the executive is aware that might make the executive unfit to carry out the role,

(b) a medical examination by a medical practitioner approved by the employer or the Health Secretary,

(c) an examination, by a medical practitioner, optometrist or other appropriately qualified health care professional, approved by the employer or the Health Secretary, of a particular aspect of the executive’s health likely to detrimentally affect the executive’s capacity to carry out the role.

(4) The employer of the Health executive is to give the health care professional providing a health assessment referred to in subrule (3) (b) or (c) any requested information about the role concerned that is reasonably required for the purpose of providing the assessment.