Job Summary:
Care Coordinator is responsible to work in collaboration with multi-disciplinary health care teams/ community service providers to provide coordination and continuity of patient care across the healthcare continuum; to support patients and their family members to transit care from hospital to home and in the community.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Participate in discharge planning and identify patient requiring post discharge care transition support.
- Plan and carry out post discharge support and follow up via phone call and/or home visit to ensure patients and caregivers ability to cope at home and discharge care plan is implemented.
- Assist patient and their families to streamline and coordinate the range of community service available.
- Implement timely and appropriate care coordination and evaluate the outcome accordingly.
- Act as liaison person, collaborating with patients, families and the multidisciplinary teams to achieve best outcome for the patients.
- Monitor patients general medical condition during home visit and report to clinician if necessary.
- Promote positive changes in patients lifestyle in the community.
- Help patients and their families to plan for and improve end of life care.
- Participate in hospital activities that contribute towards improving the quality of patient care such as research, quality or innovative projects that enhance patient care.
- Support data collection and preparation of reports and statistics for outcome tracking.
Job Requirements:
- Possess diploma/degree or equivalent professional qualifications in Nursing.
- At least 3-5 years of experience in nursing or related field in acute and/or community settings in Singapore.
- Understanding of Singapore healthcare system, community services and resources of patient post discharge.
- Experience in care coordination or case management is highly valued.
- A critical thinker, self-motivated, able to work collaboratively with multi-disciplined team.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Able to speak local languages and dialects will be an advantage.
- Familiar with MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
Interested applicants please send your updated resume to noga.lim@peopleprofilers.com.
Noga Lim Wei Loong
Registration Number: R1329872
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Contact Number: 6950 9728
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