Careers

At MOH, we advance your journey in making a meaningful impact on Singaporeans’ health and well-being through national health policy design, implementation, and administration. Our collaborative culture encourages teamwork and thoughtful design. We believe in Care, Respect and Connection to promote health and well-being in the workplace. With a focus on developing key competencies for today and tomorrow such as policy design, systems thinking, critical thinking, stakeholder management and data analytics, we strive to empower you as you take charge of your professional journey and excel in your career.

Key Job Roles

You will be involved in formulating and implementing policies that support the Ministry's five key roles.

Healthcare Services Planning

Strategic planning and development of Singapore’s healthcare system including healthcare infrastructure, facilities, and services across the different care sectors such as primary, acute, intermediate, and long-term, and ageing, to support our national mission of keeping Singaporeans healthy by providing good healthcare that is accessible to all Singaporeans.

Healthcare Finance

Keep healthcare affordable for all and support the introduction of new clinical initiatives, by ensuring that appropriate payment structures and incentives are in place. Contribute to MOH objectives of value-based care and clinical outcomes improvement through evidence synthesis, cost effectiveness analyses, value-based pricing, implementation science and education.

Healthcare Regulation

Ensure that healthcare services delivered in Singapore meet safety standards and are of reasonable quality. Draft and effect laws, perform enforcement and audits to ensure compliance, influence the ethics and conduct of the different groups of healthcare professionals, and establish a national standard of care provision to maintain consistency of quality in care provided to patients.

Healthcare Manpower Planning

Formulate policies and strategies to ensure adequate supply of qualified manpower for Singapore’s healthcare system across the different settings, including recruitment and retention of both local and foreign healthcare manpower. Promote their training and development to support healthcare workforce transformation and high standards of professionalism, to ensure that healthcare professionals are safe, competent, and aligned to national healthcare strategies.

Crisis Management

Plan and execute responses to emergencies, including pandemic readiness, disease outbreaks, civil emergencies, and national emergencies. Manage pandemic-related operations and provide medical and psychological support during health emergencies.

Under Career development, you will find more more information on the various:

• Career paths

• Development opportunities

• Ways we work with our healthcare family