Purpose of the Role:
Reporting to the Senior Manager of Psychosocial Services, you will provide psychosocial care and counselling under the purview of Psychosocial Services, which includes providing psychosocial services to patients and families under our SCS cancer rehabilitation service. Cases may also come from external referrals (such as hospitals, community partners, etc) or other internal referrals (e.g. Welfare Team, emails, SCS hotline, etc).
You will be involved in key programmes that supports cancer survivorship.
You are also expected to provide support in major organization-wide events like fundraising and public forums, and in other projects as assigned by the Manager.
Key Liaison
You are part of the Cancer Survivorship Team, working closely with relevant internal and external stakeholders:
- Clients and their families
- Cancer Rehabilitation team and internal team within psychosocial services
- Government agencies and hospitals
- Other social service agencies or community partners
Key Responsibilities:
Psychosocial Support includes:
- Psychosocial Care & Counselling
- Able to develop professional and engaged relationships with clients and other key service stakeholders.
- Provide and facilitate psychosocial assessments to assess cancer patient’s impact of illness and progression.
- Conduct on-going individual and, or family counselling through face-to-face sessions and home visitations to help navigate the bio-psycho-social-spiritual impact of illness.
- Conduct risk assessment for complex cases by considering integration of a range of information independently.
- Work closely with multi-disciplinary teams and, or agencies to deliver care or case plans.
- Lead case conferences as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Prepare social reports and ensure documentation is in place.
2. Cancer Survivorship Programme
- To support planning and execution of AYA (Adolescent & Young Adult) Survivorship Programme in partnership with NCCS.
- To support planning and execution of SCS Help the Children and Youth Programme. This includes planning and management of SCS Tuition Programme, annual Award Ceremony, Family Engagement Event and development of non-academic aspects of the programme for our children and youth.
- To work with skilled volunteers and or other stakeholders to support research-related initiatives on survivorship programmes.
3. Other Roles
- Involved in team project that supports community building and development within department and or cross department.
- May be requested to lead, organize and evaluate community development programmes.
- To be involved in review of SCS financial assistance schemes, updating SCS Cancer Care Kit, and or policy changes and future trends impacting areas of work. Be prepared to redesign and adapt programmes to remain relevant in leading the fight against cancer
- Any other ad hoc duties.
Key Requirements:
- Candidates with prior experience in healthcare or eldercare are highly preferred.
- SASW accredited Social Worker with at least 2 years of experience. Assistant Senior Social Worker position would require at least 4 years of experience.
- Exposure in direct practice counselling and casework management.
- Possess high EQ and people skills; able to navigate diverse personalities and characters.
- Strong MS Office Skills
- Bilingual and or possesses the ability to communicate in local dialect
- Committed and has passion for cancer cause
