Deputy Director, Student Wellness Service

3 days ago


Singapore Health Promotion Board Full time

**What the role is**
- Looking for a job that actually makes a difference? Join us at the Forefront of Shaping Healthier Lives The Health Promotion Board’s vision is to make Singapore a nation of healthier people and be recognised as an international authority on health. Come be a part of this journey if you’re passionate about creating boundary-pushing work that drives behavioural change. The mission of the Youth Preventive Service (YPS) of the Health Promotion Board (HPB) is to promote good health and reduce illness among schoolchildren. There are also upstream efforts to reduce obesity prevalence among Singapore students. Youth Preventive Health Service Division (YPHSD) is one of the 3 divisions under YPS. The services provided by the YPHSD include health screening and immunisation for the children and youth in Singapore. YPHSD has 4 departments namely School Health Service, Student Health Centre, Student Wellness Service and Nursing Service. You will be a part of HPB’s Student Wellness Service Department, to provide leadership to the teams administering school-based and clinic-based weight management programmes for overweight and severely overweight students, severely underweight students as well as for normal weight students with borderline BMI measurement. The job holder will report to Director, Youth Preventive Health Service.

**What you will be working on**
- As Deputy Director of the Department, you will oversee the strategic planning and execution of all weight management intervention programmes, supervise the work of the School Health Advisors (SHAs) in the mainstream schools and the intervention work of the clinic counsellors, as well as the scale-up of the medical assessment initiative in secondary schools and IHLs. You will lead in annual and periodic planning and scheduling, in consultation with team members, schools and other YPS teams. You will also engage the relevant stakeholders and partners outside YPS to support the division’s programmes in providing holistic care for target student audience, as well as liaise with key external stakeholders, such as MOE and ECDA, for active support and policies alignment. Last but not least, you will drive reviews of programme structure and contents to ensure relevance, conduct programme evaluation and improvement framework for counsellors, and keep abreast of trends and evolving issues in weight management in the context of Child & Youth Health.

**What we are looking for**
- Join us if you are a dynamic and self-motivated individual who have at least 10 years of relevant experience in hands-on operational leadership experience and a proven track record in: - Project and team management - Proven results in working with wide spectrum of stakeholders - Healthcare and/or clinical operations preferred, but not necessary for consideration We are looking for a people-person who is strategic and analytical, possess strong communications abilities, sharp in decision making, problem solving and competent in execution.



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