Houseparent @Napiri

MINDS has been caring for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities (PWIDs) and their families since 1962.

Grounded in the belief that all PWIDs have innate abilities and talents, MINDS is committed to empowering them and enhancing their quality of life, while advocating for greater inclusivity for PWIDs as a nation.

MINDS is today one of the largest charities in Singapore employing more than 850 staff. With the key focus to expand community-based services, improving the employability of PWIDS, strengthening education, and engendering inclusive community living, MINDS offers a holistic range of services and programmes across the PWIDs' lifespan.

These include schools, employment and training development centres, home-based care services and community-based services to cater to the physical, psychological, environmental and social needs of PWIDs. For more information, please visit www.minds.org.sg.

The Training Officer is to provide high quality of daily care to the Children Wing residents. She ensures house rules are followed by residents and recommends measures to mitigate risk to the residents. She conducts activities for clients to promote independence, health, wellness, and quality of life and provides guidance to residents on personal and social skills, academics or work skills.

Care of Residents:

• Provide personal care assistance to residents in their daily living such as toileting, bathing, dressing and grooming and ensure the residents good personal hygiene at all times.
• Provide supervise or assistance to residents during meal times
• Perform daily activities residents management according to care plans (ICP and CLS)
• Prepare residents for their various activities, meal times and bed times
• Ensure the proper records of residents as instructed. (e.g. School pocket money distribution, behaviour records, daily logs, home leave records, etc).
• Ensure that residents diet restrictions are adhered to.
• Monitor and record bowel movement, menstruation, blood pressure, weight and height of residents on a regular interval.
• Conduct body checks on residents on a daily basis.
• Support the intervention during medical emergency of residents
• Maintain up-to-date documentation of clients' conditions and care treatments
• Provide inputs during case review and liaise with healthcare professionals for the development and review of care plans
• Verify accuracy of documentation of client's condition, progress and care treatments

Training of Residents :

• Implement social, recreational and educational activities to promote independence, health, wellness, and quality of life
• Provide input for the design of social, recreational and educational activities to promote independence, health, wellness, and quality of life
• Guide clients in the development of basic personal and social skills, simple academics or work skills
• Monitor progress of residents in area of independent living skills
• Identify areas of improvements in programmes, activities and trainings in consultation with other staff.

Maintain order, safety and cleanliness of the care environment:

• Ensure client behaviours are in compliance to house rules
• Respond to unusual or challenging behaviours of clients
• Recommend measures to mitigate risk to clients
• Support the intervention implementation for managing the challenging behaviours.
• Perform housekeeping duties
• Ensure that residents keep their living environment and laundry clean and tidy with support from attendants/general workers
• Ensure equipment is maintained in a clean and working condition

• Diploma / Degree in Nursing with a social service background or equivalent
• Proficient in Computer literacy skills MS Words, Excel and PowerPoint
• Experience in working with persons with intellectual disability will be an advantaged.