Exercise Associate

COMPANY DESCRIPTION
**NTUC Health Co-operative Limited (NTUC Health)** is an NTUC social enterprise that provides a comprehensive and integrated suite of quality and affordable health and eldercare services to meet the growing needs of families and their dependents. Building on more than five decades of experience and expertise, NTUC Health is among the largest senior day care, nursing home, and home personal care providers in Singapore. We also offer other services for seniors such as active aging centers, community support for vulnerable seniors, and a sheltered senior group home. In addition, we run a chain of dental clinics, and a family medicine clinic.

DESIGNATION : Exercise Associate (Home Care)

RESPONSIBILITIES
As an Exercise Associate, you will provide home-based personal care services to assist clients with their home exercise program and daily activities of living. We want to enable clients to continue living in the comfort and security of their homes.
- **Simple Exercises**
- Improve joints and muscles of lower and upper limbs by conducting range of motion and flexibility exercises (from head to toe)
- Strengthen muscles of lower and upper limbs by conducting strengthening exercises (from head to toe)
- Conduct sitting and standing balance exercises
- Conduct walking exercises, if appropriate
- Conduct any exercises as prescribed by the therapist
- **Transferring and Positioning**
- Assist clients with mobility, positioning, and transferring between beds and/or chairs
- **Companionship & Recreational Activities**
- Provide a listening ear to clients who may be living with dementia
- Engage clients with mind-stimulating games, simple card or board games
- Understand clients' interests and carry out recreational activities e.g. reading newspapers, playing musical instruments, singing, etc.
- **Communication and Documentation**
- Clear and timely documentation for the exercises and activities conducted applied during the home visit
- To inform, alert, and provide inputs to the team lead regarding the client's concerns encountered during the home visit
- **Client & Caregiver Education**
- Provide basic education to clients and families by demonstrating proper techniques for home exercises and
- **ADLs**
- Work closely with the care team and families to fulfill client care needs

**Other responsibilities**
- Ensure clients' safety at all times
- Report and escalate risks, issues, near misses, and complaints to the reporting officer
- Follow service standards and clinical protocols
- Adhere to infection control measures
- Orientate and teach new care staff as required
- Take responsibility for their professional development and participate in the department's training program and external courses.

QUALIFICATIONS
- Locally Trained in Singapore:

- WHS Higher Certificate in Healthcare Support (Therapy Support)
- At least 2 years of relevant experience
- Ability to communicate with clients in English
- Possesses computer skills in data entry and documentation
- Foreign Trained:

- Degree in Physiotherapy in home country

OTHER INFORMATION
This is in partnership with the Employment and Employability Institute Pte Ltd ("e2i"). e2i is the empowering network for workers and employers seeking employment and employability solutions. e2i serves as a bridge between workers and employers, connecting with workers to offer job security through job-matching, career guidance and skills upgrading services, and partnering employers to address their manpower needs through recruitment, training, and job redesign solutions. e2i is a tripartite initiative of the National Trades Union Congress set up to support nation-wide manpower and skills upgrading initiatives.