Job Summary
Purpose of job:
- Execution of support for casework under guidance of social worker for home visits to work with clients and caregivers after diagnosis of dementia.
- Support basic intervention tasks identified by social workers.
- Engagement of clients with dementia with meaningful activities such as cognitive stimulation or structured activities.
- Monitoring of client's conditions and progress.
- Provide service linkage for client and caregivers.
- Provide admin, operational and logistic support for clients, programme, outreach and group work.
Key Responsibility Areas
- Passion to work with individuals/elderly diagnosed with early stage dementia and their caregivers.
- Basic befriending and emotional support for elderly.
- Carry out meaningful activities in engagement process.
- Support seniors and caregivers during service duration.
- Perform basic screening tools in health and mental health for seniors and caregivers.
- Support outreach, service linkage and referrals.
- Ensure proper documentation of case notes, assessment, records.
Requirements
Experience:
- Some experience in working with elderly clients and caregivers in the community setting
- Relevant working experience in healthcare or social service sector.
- Able to co-facilitate group work
Qualifications:
Professional Cert/Nitec/Diploma
Competencies
Must Have Competencies:
- Care assistance - Level 1
- Intervention Implementation - Level 1
- Social Service Programme Implementation - Level 1
- Group Work Intervention - Level 2
Good to Have Competencies:
- Client Supervision - Level 1
- Conflict Management - Level 2
- Social Service Programme Evaluation - Level 1
- Support Service to Seniors - Level 2
- Stakeholder Management - Level 1
Critical Core Skills:
- Communication - Intermediate
- Collaboration - Basic
- Customer Orientation - Intermediate
- Problem Solving - Basic
.Please refer to Technical Skills and Competency (TSCs) and Critical Core Skills (CCSs) in Skills Framework for Social Service Industry via this link
Please send your resume and expected salary to
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interview.
