HCA Hospice Care (HCA) is a registered charity in Singapore providing comfort and support to patients with life-limiting illnesses, regardless of age, religion, ethnicity, nationality and financial status.
Our focus lies in home hospice care, where dedicated multidisciplinary teams, comprising doctors, nurses, social workers, counselors and trained volunteers, visit patients and their families in their own homes. This service is provided free of charge.
More than 60,000 patients have benefited from HCA Hospice Care’s services since its establishment in 1989. We are the largest home hospice provider in Singapore, and our specialized teams are on call round-the-clock, making about 34,000 home visits a year and serving an average of 3,500 patients annually. We have about 800 patients under our care at any point of time.
HCA Hospice Care has been recognised as a ‘Centre of Specialisation’ by the National Council of Social Services (NCSS).
Job Description / Job Responsibilities
Responsibilities
You will be responsible for providing palliative care to patients assigned to you. Such care includes patient assessment, patient care planning, implementing and monitoring of symptom management.
You will be involved in training and orientation for other medical professionals who may be attached to HCA from time to time.
You will also represent HCA in dealing with other institutions/agencies, and participate in community programmes to create awareness of HCA’s work to the community and institutions/agencies.
You are encouraged to initiate and participate in continual learning and development programmes that may also include research or quality improvement projects. Training opportunities are also widely available, either at diploma or specialist levels.
You will be required to undertake on-call responsibilities outside normal working hours.
Requirements
- MBBS Degree registrable with the Singapore Medical Council
- At least two years of clinical experience as a doctor
- Post-grad qualifications or prior experience in other related disciplines e.g. Family Medicine, Oncology, Internal Medicine, Paediatrics or Geriatrics will be useful.
Benefits
- Annual Wage Supplement (AWS)
- Performance-based variable bonus
- 24 to 28 days annual leave