Policy Adviser – Health Spending

Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity to work on some of the highest priorities in government, delivering real value to the public and make health and care services productive and sustainable into the future? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

About the Team

The Health and Social Care Spending team is responsible for HM Treasury's oversight of over £190 billion of annual government spending in health and adult social care - accounting for almost a quarter of all public spending! We are made up of people from a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences, including from both within and outside government. We are friendly, buzzy and completely committed to diversity, inclusion and personal development.

About the Job

We are recruiting a Policy Adviser to join our Health and Social Care Spending Team to work on capital spending. This includes some of the highest priorities for government on infrastructure: maintenance and improvement of the NHS estate, the New Hospitals Programme, NHS diagnostics transformation, investment to support social care, Health R&D, in-year health capital financial management, setting long term health capital budgets, and leading on policy for UK Health Security Agency infrastructure. 

In this role, you will:

• Advise Ministers and senior officials – providing high-quality advice and briefing to Treasury Ministers on key issues relating to government spending on health, social care and Covid-19. 
• Analyse evidence – researching and scrutinising policy proposals and business cases to reach evidence-based conclusions and ensure value for money in government spending.
• Develop core spending control skills – building a knowledge base of the relevant budgets, trends, and context for additional funding requests, and supporting work on fiscal events.
• Develop policy expertise – understanding the political and policy environment surrounding health and social care, deepening expertise in specific policy areas, and applying that to everyday work.
• Work effectively on cross-cutting policy – understanding different perspectives and working through competing priorities to develop effective policy solutions and work collaboratively across teams.
• Build and maintain relationships – developing positive partners relationships with a range of government and external partners.

About You

You should have the ability to evaluate different and sometimes competing evidence sources to come to a conclusion and advise senior partners. You should be able to juggle multiple competing priorities whilst delivering longer-term objectives. You should also have the ability to work with a range of partners to build relationships and deliver a joint outcome.

Some of the Benefits our people love

• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month
• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
• Generous parental and adoption leave packages
• Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28.97%
• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances
• A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity

For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.

If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team.