Job Description

Primary Objectives of Position * Organize & conduct community outreach events and activities to raise awareness of mental health, including dementia

• Engage the beneficiaries through individual or group-based preventive activities and programmes, through home visits or at community site(s), targeting their holistic health and well-being to promote mental wellness and social connectivity
• Support & monitor clients' & caregivers' condition and progress

Job Responsibilities

• Coordinate & support outreach events and provide logistical & operational support to ensure the smooth organisation of these events
• Promote, coordinate and conduct a variety of meaningful health & social activities to consistently engage the community
• Organize & conduct structured preventive activities and/or programmes for the community, those at risk of mental health conditions and caregivers
• Provide basic mental health information to seniors & caregivers
• Monitor clients' conditions and progress by conducting home visits or follow-up calls, engage clients in meaningful activities based on client's interest, and escalate cases for support as necessary
• Facilitate communications between the programme and client/family/caregivers and/or the partners
• Document clients' progress & track client's participation in outreach & activities and assist in collation of statistics for submission to stakeholders
• Perform administrative duties for programme / department, ensure client's data is updated on a monthly basis, maintain centre's expenditure and coordinating the team training schedule etc
• Upkeep & maintain accurate client records, statistics, programme data and documents, in accordance to programme requirement, stakeholders reporting and prevailing personal data protection security guidelines
• Extend support by contributing in different projects and committees from time to time, as and when required

Technical Competencies:

- Minimum GCE 'O' levels, up to Diploma graduates
- IT literate

Preferred characteristics:

- Proactive, energetic & passionate to serve the community
- Team player, yet independent to carry out most functions

- Ability to speak dialects will be advantageous