The posting
- Job Purpose
- To co-ordinate care for patients and families in a community-based preventive paediatrics health program between community sites (preschools), social workers and the Child Development Unit
- To manage patients on a health preventive program with screening and health education. To implement the program effectively with a multidisciplinary team, ensuring data collection and clinical visits are followed through.
- To assist in management of clinical data collection, including database management using RedCAP, or provide surveys through designing platforms for data collection with team.
- To participate in clinical data collection, maintaining database, and consent procedures.
2. Duties and Responsibilities
2.1.1 Case Management
- Provide administration of child health, developmental and family needs questionnaire and surveys in a community-based setting including home visits and school visits
- Provide screening and assessment of children’s development and health with nurses in preschools.
- Assess and identify children and families' medical, psychological, social, environmental, and financial needs through simple screening questionnaires.
- Direct patients and families into hospital or partner programs in the clinical protocol.
- Collaboration with clinicians, other health care members, and patient/family to implement, monitor and evaluate care plans and follow-up on outcomes
- Implement, monitor and evaluate the patient’s adherence to care plans and revising it as needed.
- To integrate and coordinate the activities of multiple discipline services or resources needed by patients/families.
- Ensure patients' treatments, and consultations take place promptly and in proper sequence.
- Provide patient education if required.
- Act as the point of contact and a liaison between the patient, family and the hospital.
- Establish a framework for data collection and on care delivery process and clinical
- Make visits to patients’ homes/ partner organisation within communities if care coordination requires so.
2.1.2 Data collection and maintenance of database
- Assist in ensuring ethics submission, as well as ensuring proper documentation and data collection of children within the program service.
- Maintaining database in RedCAP/ excel
- Consent procedures for participation in the program research projects
- Perform clinical measurements and behavioural observations in accordance with the highest of clinical standards, under supervision by health team members
2.2.1 Secondary Responsibilities and Duties
- Participate in the workgroup meetings pertaining to research or clinical program management
- Participate in meetings and teachings within the program
- Participate with doctors or professionals with preschool teachers and community social workers in case discussions and protocol management
- Provide statistical reports and program reports when required by doctors, departments and the hospital
3. Job Specification/Requirements
3.1.1 Qualification and skills
- A Bachelor’s degree in relevant disciplines (e.g. Nursing, Psychology, Behavioural Science, Social work, Health Sciences, Education)
- Keen interest in the area of early child development and/or behaviour
- Excellent command of spoken and written English, with a second language
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- A team player with an ability to work independently
3.1.2 Experience
- Experience of 1-2 years in research, hospital work or social service sector work
- Experience working with preschool-age children and/or families is an asset for this position
3.1.3 Skills
- Excellence in interpersonal skills
- Procession of statistical analysis skills is an advantage
- Equipped with basic computer skills in Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint
- Knowledge of SPSS is a bonus
