ANNUAL REPORT 2010 / 2011 - MINDS

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ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS (AHP) SERVICES Chairman Chief Executive Officer Director, Allied Health Professionals Services Director, Human Resources & Admin Mr Augustin Lee Mr Keh Eng Song Ms Koh Gee May Mrs Jeannie Ho The AHP Hub’s vision is to be a Centre of Competence in Intellectual Disability with the ability to influence and lead national policy changes on issues pertaining to intellectual disabilities and advise how the disability sector can integrate with other sectors such as healthcare and education to advance the holistic development of persons with intellectual disabilities. AHPs employed within the sectors: Social Workers Psychologists Occupational Physio-therapists Speech Therapists Therapists Schools 8 8 4 4 5 EDCs 6 6 3 - - Residential & TDCs 5 3 2 2 - Total: 56 19 17 9 6 5 MILESTONES AND ACHIEVEMENTS Monthly Multidisciplinary Hub Meetings In order to cultivate and sustain a workplace that will attract and retain AHPs, MINDS set up a virtual hub for these professionals in 2008 to sustain team morale, support career development and actively build individual professional capabilities. From its inception, monthly multidisciplinary hub meetings were held for AHPs from all MINDS sectors. These half-day sessions served as a platform for discussions about professional concerns, consensus seeking for enhancing ways of working, identification of gaps in service provision and ideas generation for programme development. Meanwhile, intra-disciplinary meetings (by profession) facilitated by voluntary co-ordinators for each discipline group continued to meet regularly. Both the hub and intra-disciplinary meetings have strengthened teamwork, professional sharing and peer affirmation. Training, Research and Clinical Supervision All AHPs received at least 40 hours of training per year and many also attended overseas training and presented papers at international conferences. Several papers were selected for presentation at the AFID conference in Jeju, Korea in August 2011. A research paper by 2 Speech Therapists – “Sharing of a journey towards developing and implementing a common signing approach within an organisation for persons with intellectual disabilities in Singapore” – was accepted for oral presentation at the 2011 Speech Pathology Australia National Conference held in Darwin, Australia in June 2011. The AHPs also worked closely with academics and related professionals in research projects pertaining to ageing, communication, and sexuality issues in persons with intellectual disabilities. In order to grow AHP capabilities, several external consultancy services were used to provide clinical supervision and case consultation for the psychologists and social workers. Dr Hoili Lim (Senior Consultant Psychologist, Adam Road Medical Centre) provided clinical supervision for all the psychologists. The Students Care Service’s principal social workers, Mrs Chuah Yin May and Mrs Wong Cher Meng, provided individual and group case consultation sessions for all social workers. Participating AHPs found these consultations beneficial. Nonetheless, one of the hub’s priorities is also to consciously expand and strengthen in-house capacity for case consultation and clinical supervision where these services can be provided by the more senior and experienced AHPs within MINDS. Career Structure and Professional Development There is growing recognition that it is no longer enough that the AHPs’ role be confined to providing clinical interventions and support just within the schools and centres. The AHPs’ specialist knowledge and skills are important components for the formulation of strategic directions for MINDS’ future services and the AHPs must play an active role, not merely a supporting one. In driving services 26 MINDS ANNUAL REPORT 2010 / 2011
planning or representing clients’ interest when coordinating with other service providers, the quality of professional support from our AHPs will be needed. Developing such deep competencies requires an environment with the right structures and incentives where the AHPs could flourish. The timely introduction of the AHP Bill also serves as an impetus to upgrade MINDS’ professional standards, put in place a peer review system and case range exposure so as to meet the requirements of an Approved Centre. Career Pathway and Professional Leadership Appointments A career development pathway was implemented so that young AHPs can look forward to a progression within MINDS. To ensure sufficient focus on the AHPs’ development, two professional leadership appointments (PLAs) were created from the senior level AHPs who had demonstrated professional leadership potential. They are the Head of Discipline and Team Leaders. Together with Chairman and Director of AHP Services, these appointment holders are entrusted to think strategically; and to anticipate, embrace, and lead changes. These positions may also have operational or resource management responsibility of small discipline teams. As of 1 January 2011, 6 PLA holders across the 5 AHP disciplines were appointed. The PLA holder’s responsibilities also include disciplinewide strategic planning which seize opportunities and trends in the industry or profession to develop new strategies, policies, processes, and solutions that will create value for the organisation and clients. They will develop and monitor workplans aligned to MINDS strategic direction; conduct intra- and inter-disciplinary research and projects to identify service gaps, and recommend relevant policy and service development changes. Job Rotation/Posting Job rotation and posting will enrich the AHPs’ professional experience and expose them to greater opportunity to apply different intervention skills and techniques with different clientele groups. For disciplines covered by the new AHP Bill, such rotation is also a requirement. This will introduce variation to their work repertoire, increase job satisfaction, and decrease feeling of burnout, fatigue, boredom and apathy. Rotation and posting to different MINDS schools and adult centres will also provide case range exposure across age groups such as paediatrics, adults, and geriatrics. This can be a motivating factor for those AHPs who want to work with greater breadth of cases and enhance professional satisfaction, retention, and leadership development. The duration of each posting would generally increase with seniority, but will be subject to exigencies of service. Where feasible, the guiding principle in the rotation would be to ensure that all AHPs have the opportunity to be exposed to all MINDS’ sectors. FY 2011/12 WORKPLAN • To provide and organize the necessary networks internally and externally which can enhance the professional standards of the AHPs through clinical supervision, case consultation, career coaching, mentoring and team building. • To develop professional development plans and training roadmaps for the various AHP disciplines and the SOP for job posting/rotation. • To contribute AHP expertise for programmes and service development through the AHP study teams on various subject matters related to intellectual disability. • To grow the practitioner research culture in MINDS through the development of multidisciplinary proposals for conference papers and scientific journal publications. • To develop public education materials and give public talks to raise awareness on intellectual disability, educate caregivers, public, and stakeholders etc. MINDS ANNUAL REPORT 2010 / 2011 27
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