Senior/Health Policy Analyst

What the role is

You will formulate, review and implement patient financing and subvention policies within the acute care setting (i.e. public hospitals) to ensure affordability for patients, while maintaining sustainability of our healthcare system. You will be working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment that would require the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders at the same time.

• Your portfolio involves: Conducting detailed analyses of patient profiles and needs, healthcare costs, adequacy of subsidy policies, monitoring of fees to evaluate impact of current policies and identify gaps.
• Handling complex costing, utilisation, and billing datasets to strengthen policymaking.
• Designing and implementing new charging and subsidy policies to support value-based healthcare delivery, and also achieve significant efficiency gains.
• Designing and implementing Government subvention policies for public hospitals and national specialty centres.
• Working with internal and external stakeholders to manage the end-to-end process from developing and reviewing policies, to designing the processes and ensuring smooth implementation of changes through system optimisation, to support the integrity of our financing schemes.
• Evaluating funding proposals from public healthcare institutions, to ensure that providers are right funded for service delivery.

• Key Competencies Required: Thinking Clearly & Making Sound Judgements – Strong analytical and critical thinking abilities to support the crafting of sound policy recommendations; ability to grasp timelines, operating context and ground realities.
• Learning & Putting Skills into Action - Possesses the drive and curiosity to learn and apply new skills, knowledge and new ways of working.
• Improving & Innovating – Ability to seek continual improvements, and to innovate and experiment while managing the risks involved.
• Working Effectively with Stakeholders – Ability to mobilise and rally partners and stakeholders towards a collective purpose.
• Other skills: Tertiary education in any discipline is required; Strong policy acumen; Strong quantitative, writing and communication skills; Ability to work independently; Able to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment and welcome challenges.
• As part of the shortlisting process for this role, candidates may be required to complete a medical declaration and/or undergo further assessment.

The Ministry of Health’s (MOH) vision is to champion a healthy nation with our people – to live well, live long and with peace of mind. As an open country constantly exposed to an interconnected world, Singapore faces complex issues in public healthcare. MOH constantly grapples with new challenges brought on by an increasingly globalised world, a rapidly ageing population and rising expectations. MOH’s responses to these challenges include preventing and managing the outbreak of diseases such as SARS and Influenza A (H1N1), designing a healthcare system that delivers care in an integrated and effective manner, growing the capacity and capabilities within the sector, and managing healthcare inflation. As an MOH officer, you will be involved in formulating and implementing policies that guide Singapore’s healthcare ecosystem. You will work alongside a team with varied skills and backgrounds, but with the common goals of (i) promoting good health and reducing illnesses; (ii) ensuring that Singaporeans have access to good and affordable healthcare; and (iii) pursuing medical excellence. Your work will have far-reaching impact on the health and lives of Singaporeans.