Health and Social Care
Social & Personal ServicesImproving the quality of life for clients by working closely with the medical profession to provide care, recuperation, and rehabilitation while promoting physical and psychosocial wellbeing.
Health and Social Care could be for you if you like:
- Complex problems
- Helping people
About Health and Social Care
A health and social care practitioner delivers health support from initial care to rehabilitation. Through building a close relationship with medical practitioners they are able to support patients and their families to ensure their holistic care needs are met. Health and social care practitioners will have strong social skills as they work extensively with patients. They will also need a well developed emotional intelligence to handle some of the more challenging patients and the distress of bereavement.
The Challenge
Competitors must be able to demonstrate competencies in the following areas:
- Support health, growth, and development in client-based activities through assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
- Provide health, social and rehabilitative care to clients across the lifespan in various healthcare settings, including nutrition, medication administration, and the use of functional and assistive devices.
- Demonstrate evidence-based knowledge, management, and competence of requisite skills to promote health, support growth and development, caring and rehabilitation
- Apply principles of law and ethics, ergonomics, equality, safety, sustainability, and environmental-friendly practices
- Evaluate own working processes and receive feedback from the Experts/Coaches at the end of the Competition
Our Experts
Chief Expert
Ms Ng Ling Hui JocelynAssistant Director, Nursing Services
Ang Mo Kio - Thye Hua Kwan Hospital
Deputy Chief Expert
Ms Lim Su Yee MicheleNurse Educator
Changi General Hospital
Deputy Chief Expert
Ms Wan Mei Ting MarilynSenior Nurse Educator
Tan Tock Seng Hospital
Deputy Chief Expert
Ms Tay Jia MingSenior Nurse Manager
Sengkang General Hospital
Secretary
Dr Teoh Chun Ming
Manager and Lecturer
School of Life Sciences & Chemical Technology
Ngee Ann Polytechnic
Ex-Officio
Dr Kenneth M K LeeDeputy Director
School of Life Sciences & Chemical Technology
Ngee Ann Polytechnic
