Requirements:

• Min. Diploma qualification
• Proficiency in MS Office applications (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Attentive to details
• Willing to work on some weekends and weekday evenings

Responsibilities:

• Support the Manager, Volunteer Programme in the coordination of volunteer programme activities.
• Maintain up-to-date bio-data and training records of volunteers.
• Assist with new volunteers’ recruitment.
• Manage, nurture, sustain and motivate volunteers.
• Coordinate the work of volunteers with the work of the Hospice’s clinical and admin departments.
• Provide support for DPH events or volunteer-initiated events by coordinating the activation of volunteers.
• Coordinate training for new and existing volunteers, and conduct selected training and briefing sessions for them.
• Coordinate Corporate Social Responsibility and Values in Action programmes.

Requirements:

• Master’s degree in counselling
• Postgraduate certification to conduct pastoral counselling
• At least 1 year experience in pastoral counselling
• Able to work with a multi-disciplinary team.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills

Responsibilities:

• Implement spiritual assessment as part of hospice standard care.
• Identify patients in need and provide direct psychological therapy, spiritual/pastoral/ bereavement support and counselling to patients and families.
• Provide spiritual guidance and support to patients regardless of race and religion.
• Acknowledge and respect patients/families’ beliefs, culture and values related to life’s meaning.
• Provide basic training in spiritual assessment and management to direct care staff, eg. medical social workers, senior nursing and medical staff.
• Set up a register with references for patients in need of religion to support them.

Requirements:

• Degree in Occupational Therapy
• Registered with Allied Health Professions Council
• Min. 3 years of relevant experience as an Occupational Therapist
• Independent worker and able to work in a team
• Preferably with work experience in a healthcare or voluntary welfare organisation setting

Responsibilities:

• Provide OT assessment for assigned inpatient, daycare and homecare patients.
• Develop goal-oriented, individualised care plans for referred patients to promote coping, symptom management, self-care, etc.
• Source for and recommend adaptive and home equipment, and educate patients and their family members on its use.
• Offer interventions to enhance patients’ physical, psychosocial and spiritual well-being.
• Support caregiver training, and work with Volunteer Programme department to identify and develop programmes for volunteer training.
• Participate in inter-disciplinary patient care by working closely with the rest of the clinical team and volunteers.
• Present cases at team meetings and participate in case consultations.
• Participate in assigned education, research and activities that are aligned with the objectives and mission of DPH.

You will be required to work with the multi-disciplinary team to provide palliative care to patients with terminal illness and end-stage organ failure. The palliative management will include pain and symptoms management, psychological, emotional and spiritual care support to patients and their family members.

You will also ensure and maintain the standards of professional nursing practice and work effectively as a team.

Requirements:

• Degree in Nursing from a recognised institution
• Minimum 5 years  of nursing experience in an acute care or home care setting
• Palliative Care / ICU nursing training or background preferred
• Able to work 3 rotating shifts (for in-patient wards)
• Must be registered with the Singapore Nursing Board

To work with the multi-disciplinary team to provide symptom management, clinical care, psychological, emotional and spiritual care to patients and their families.

Requirements:

• Basic medical degree recognized by Singapore Medical Council
• Minimum 3 years post-graduation medical school
• Experience working in palliative care settings is desirable but not essential as training will be provided

Responsibilities:

• Leads the team of nurses to provide medical consults to patients with advanced and progressive disease
• Formulates and review care plans with multi-disciplinary team to maintain standards of care and ensures safety of patients.
• Assessment of new cases and performs on-call duties