The category A IASS programme is aimed at candidates who pass the competitive examination (internal, external or “third way” (troisième voie) as well as health and social action inspector (IASS) interns recruited by the “reserved way for persons with disabilities” (voie réservée).
Role
Health and social inspectors (IASS) are responsible for the design, implementation and evaluation of public health, social, and medico-social policies in response to the social and health needs of the population; they are thus involved in the policy of reducing social and territorial health inequalities.
Together with local stakeholders, they help coordinate citizens’ pathways through the organisation and regulation of access to rights and health in the territories.
They practise within:
- Departmental Directorates for Employment of Labour and Solidarity (DDETS);
- Regional health agencies (ARS) and their departmental delegations (DDARS);
- Regional Directorates for Economy, Employment, Labour and Solidarity (DREETS), and the Directorates for Economy, Employment, Labour and Solidarity (DEETS) in
French overseas departments;
- National inspection mission (MNC) of social security bodies;
- Central Directors of Administration (DAC) of the Ministries of Health and Solidarity: DGCS, DGOS, DGS, etc.
Becoming Inspector of the Health and Social Action is:
- Choose a role to design, implement and evaluate public policies at the heart of societal challenges and live together
- Carry out a position with a variety of tasks and responsibilities
- Choose a career in the multiple areas of exercise, such as access to accommodation and housing for homeless audiences, the territorial organisation of medico-social services (support for the elderly and people with disabilities), or the integration of vulnerable people…
Objectives and skills
Professional objectives
The training should enable IASS civil servant students to develop their technical and interpersonal skills necessary for the performance of their duties in the territorial departments of the ministries responsible for health and solidarity.
Training also helps build an identity, network and professional culture.
Skills outcomes
The training is built around 6 units of skills:
- Acting in my professional ecosystem as a public manager of the health care system;
- Implement public policies in the areas of health, medico-social and social;
- Inspection, control;
- Ensure the performance of institutions/services/devices;
- Identify and treat any risk to the health of populations;
- Communication-management-cooperation.
Entry requirements
Conditions of entry
Access to training is after successful entry competitions organised by French Ministry of Labour, Health, Solidarity and Families.
Admission prerequisites
- External competition: open to candidates holding a qualification or diploma classified at least at level 6 (former nomenclature: level II (Bac + 3/Licence);
- Internal competition: open to officials and other servants of the State, local authorities and public institutions dependent on them, including those mentioned in Article 2 of Law No 86-33 of 9 January 1986 laying down provisions relating to the public service in hospitals, having 4 years of public service;
- Competition 3rd way: open to persons with evidence of at least 5 years’ professional experience in the health, social or medico-social fields (cf. Article 6 (3) of the statutory decree);
- Recruitment for workers with disabilities: open to candidates holding a qualification or diploma classified at least at level 6 (former nomenclature: level II (Bac + 3/Licence), (cf. Decree 95-979 of 25 August 1995 amended)
Contact
Office responsible for Public Health and Social Welfare Inspector Program