Executive, Preventive Health

Company description:

The National Healthcare Group (NHG) is a leader in public healthcare in Singapore, recognised at home and abroad for the quality of its medical expertise and facilities. Care is provided through an integrated network of seven primary care polyclinics, acute care and tertiary hospitals, national specialty centres and business divisions. Together they bring a rich legacy of medical expertise to our philosophy of integrated patient-centred care.

NHG's vision is "Adding Years of Healthy Life". This vision goes beyond merely healing the sick to the more difficult and infinitely more rewarding task of preventing illness and preserving health and quality of life. With some 22,000 staff, NHG aims to provide care that is patient-centric, accessible, seamless, comprehensive, appropriate and cost-effective.

As the Regional Health System (RHS) for Central-North Singapore, it is vital for NHG to partner and collaborate with stakeholders, community advisors, and voluntary welfare organisations. Together with our patients, their families and caregivers, we aim to deliver integrated healthcare services and programmes that help in Adding Years of Healthy Life to all concerned.

This role is primarily responsible for supporting the development and production of preventive health intervention resources for school, workplace and community settings.

Major Duties & Responsibilities

• To support the design, development and production of preventive health intervention resources to activate healthy behavior changes, create healthy communities and social norms in various settings. These resources may include teaching and learning resources, communications content, preventive health programmes, assessment tools, health promoting policies and practices.
• To support and organize ground-sensing and process/outcome data collection, impact analyses and evaluation of programmes.
• To engage and on-board targeted external agencies to participate in preventive health programmes.
• To support implementation of preventive health programmes in various settings.
• To initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control projects that may be assigned from time to time.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor &/or Master degree qualification related to behavioural science, social psychology, applied sociology, communications and/or data analytics.
• Experience in behavioural intervention, curriculum development, learning design, social media marketing/analytics, video/infographics production will be advantageous.
• Experience in preventive health programme development will be advantageous

Desired Qualities

• Team player with very good interpersonal, communications and writing skills.
• Meticulous in implementation.
• Analytical and adaptive to continuous changes.
• Able to function independently with minimum support resources.

This is a 1-Year contract role with extension and conversion possibilities.