Assistant Manager / Senior Executive, Mental Health (Youth)
The role requires analysis trends, engaging stakeholders, piloting youth-focused services, and driving capability building to strengthen system coherence, referral pathways, and national mental health service coverage through coordinated collaboration across healthcare, community, education, and regional partners.
- Identify emerging trends through data analysis, literature reviews and study overseas strategies to inform planning that strengthens national mental health planning and service coverage.
- Plan and engage stakeholders to understand practices and identify collaboration opportunities for system delivery coherence and aligned with divisional priorities.
- Explore and pilot innovative youth-focused service to improve accessibility and relevance.
- Recommend scalable, sustainable youth mental health solutions supporting youths and caregivers.
- Work with the HOD to drive stakeholder collaboration and capability building of partners funded under the Community Mental Health Masterplan, advancing tiered-care competencies nationally.
- Co-develop capability building plans with Regional Health Systems for community mental health and primary care partners.
- Support regional engagement with MOE, school counsellors, healthcare and community care partners to improve care and system integration.
- Strengthen referral pathways to enhance coordinated national mental health service coverage.
Job Requirement:
- Degree in a healthcare-related discipline (preferred)
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in healthcare or community care sectors
- Experience in youth work, mental health or programme design (preferred)
- Proven skills in literature research, project management, and data analysis
- Ability to work effectively with diverse groups
- Strong multi-tasking, analytical, problem solving, and project management capabilities
- Self-starter with high learning agility, resilient, adaptable and able to manage change and ambiguity
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills