The following phrases are intended – wherever they appear in this Regulation – to have the meanings specified next to them:

1. Health Jobs: These are the jobs performed by their holders providing health or medical services in all health facilities.

2. The Ministry: This refers to the Ministry of Health and other governmental entities that provide health services.

3. Health Facilities:

• - Government hospitals, clinics, health centers, health units, offices, health quarantine (quarantines), medical warehouses, clinics and laboratories, blood banks, health research centers, and forensic medicine departments.

• - Health institutes, and facilities for health education and training.

• - Entities agreed upon between the Ministry and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development.

4. The Administrative Agency: This is the entity that organizes its budget with a separate section from the general state budget.

5. The Bureau: This is (the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development currently).

6. Management and Supervision: This refers to the management and supervision of health facilities and their medical departments in their health specialties within the Ministry and health facilities.

7. The Group: This is the broad framework of job classification to which a number of categories with similar work nature belong, such as the group of doctors.

8. The Category: This is a sub-division of the group, where the jobs of each category are similar in nature of work, level of difficulty, type and amount of responsibility, thus requiring similar scientific and practical qualifications along with the accompanying knowledge, ability, and skill in type and level.

9. The Level: This is an indicator of the salary position of the category at a certain level of duty difficulty and amount of responsibility, and each level represents a stage of the job range for each category within the group of multiple categories like doctors, or the group of a single category regardless of the job titles like specialists, and the level corresponds to the rank in the employee salary scale, as the salary scale for health jobs is a combination of integrated scales.

10. Qualifications: This means the educational level, training, practical experiences, knowledge, personal attributes, abilities, and skills required for the job.

11. Recognized Experience: This is the experience acquired in a recognized governmental or private health facility by the Ministry.

12. Promotion: This is the progression of the classified individual within any of the categories listed in the health jobs scale from one level to the next within the group and category on which their salary is established.

13. The Minimum Salary: This is the amount allocated as the starting salary for a category of the categories listed in the salary scale for health jobs attached to the Regulation.

14. The Annual Increment: This is the increase that occurs annually to the salary of those covered by this Regulation in light of their service.

15. Allowances: These are amounts – excluding salary – that are paid to employees in health facilities either as a percentage or a specified amount according to the allowances table attached to the Regulation, and among these allowances are:

• 1- (Allowance for Full-time and Overtime): This is the amount paid to certain categories specified in the allowances table who are covered by this Regulation in exchange for full-time government work and overtime.

• 2- (Allowance for Harm, Infection, and Danger): This is the amount paid for jobs that may expose their holders to harm, infection, or danger due to their work.

• 3- (Allowance for Practicing Forensic Medicine): This is the amount allocated for those working in forensic medicine centers and departments covered by this Regulation, including those working in the morgue.

• 4- (Allowance for Workers in Psychiatric Hospitals and Clinics): This is the amount allocated in exchange for the conditions and nature of work in these entities and dealing with a specific category of patients.

• 5- (Allowance for Workers in Leprosy Hospitals and Isolation Departments): This is the amount allocated for those working in these entities in exchange for the effects that may result from practicing this work in areas where infections are prevalent.

• 6- (Ambulance Driver Allowance): This is the amount granted to qualified paramedics who drive ambulances themselves in addition to performing their duties as paramedics.

• 7- (Transportation Allowance): This is the amount paid monthly to cover the employee's transportation expenses to and from their workplace.

The provisions of this Regulation apply to holders of health positions primarily from Saudi civilian employees in all government agencies – excluding university faculty members – and include holders of positions specified in the categories listed in the table attached to this Regulation.

The health positions covered by this Regulation shall be filled in accordance with the Appurtenance of qualifications attached hereto, and this Appurtenance may be amended by agreement between the Minister of Human Resources and Social Development and the competent Minister.

A- The employee covered by this Regulation shall be appointed to a position from the vacant positions in a group of health job categories, or in a higher category within the group where their position is located, in accordance with the following controls:

• 1- A guide to the availability of the scientific, practical, or training qualifications stipulated in the qualifications guide referred to in Article (3) of this Regulation.

• 2- The last performance evaluation prepared for them must not be less than (Good).

B- The appointee in a higher category than the one covered shall be granted a salary equivalent to their salary before the appointment, in addition to at least the amount of the allowance specified for the level they were confirmed at.

The employee covered by this Regulation is promoted from the level they are confirmed at to the next level under the following two conditions:

• First: They must have completed all allowances at the level they are confirmed at, and must spend at least one year at the highest limit, excluding any periods of absence for which they do not receive a salary.

• Second: The performance evaluation rating for the last two years must be at least (Very Good).

For the purposes of promotion, research, achievements, outstanding skills, and attendance or participation in short training courses and similar activities will be considered if it is definitively proven that they have a direct relationship to the nature of the work, according to the criteria set by the Ministry in conjunction with the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development regarding duration and level.

Notwithstanding (the first condition) of this article - an employee may be promoted to a higher level before the required duration at the confirmed level has elapsed if they obtain an academic qualification or successfully complete a training program related to the nature of the work, with its duration and level determined by the regulations set by the Ministry and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development.

The individual covered by the provisions of this Regulation shall be transferred to a position not subject to its provisions in accordance with the rules set forth in Article (5) of the Transfer Regulation.