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</TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- headline one : end --></TD></TR><TR><TD>Positions like doctors, nurses and occupational therapists at 2 new hospitals must be filled by March </TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- Author --></TD></TR><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Jamie Ee Wen Wei
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The sector is tapping 'mid-career switchers' like nurse Emily Lau, who worked in a finance firm previously. -- ST PHOTO: SAMUEL HE
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->The health-care sector is going on a year-end recruitment drive to fill 1,500 positions at two new hospitals by March next year.
Wanted: Doctors, nurses, occupational therapists and other health professionals.
Some 600 of the jobs are available at the 550-bed Khoo Teck Puat Hospital which opens in Yishun next March.
The core team for the new hospital will come from Alexandra Hospital (AH).
Ms Fatimah Moideen Kutty, AH's deputy director of human resource, said part of its recruitment strategy has been to target residents in the north.
In the last two years, it managed to hire about 300 people in Yishun.
The other 900 jobs will be at the Jurong General Hospital (JGH), which will be ready by 2014. The staff need to be hired by March to take over at Alexandra Hospital, which will be the temporary premises for JGH.
Mr Foo Hee Jug, chief executive officer of JGH, said: 'We are looking for people with the passion to serve. We are very open to 'mid-career switchers' because their level of maturity would be higher, and in health care, a certain level of resilience is needed.'
He noted that nurses and allied health professionals such as physiotherapists will be in greater demand as the shortage of doctors worldwide increases.
'Not everyone will need specialist care, so some duties will be passed down to nurses and allied health professionals,' he said.
To meet the demand for health-care workers, the two hospitals are also looking overseas to recruit staff.
JGH has ventured to India and the Philippines to recruit nurses.
Recently, the Ministry of Health collaborated with the Workforce Development Agency to launch a campaign to tap those considering a mid-career switch to nursing and allied health careers.
A series of career previews was organised to promote the Professional Conversion Programme (PCP) for these jobs.
This year, about 50 people enrolled for the diploma in nursing course under the PCP. This is almost double the number who enrolled in 2007.
One graduate, Ms Emily Lau, 37, has been working as a staff nurse at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) since May this year.
A relationship manager at a finance company for almost 10 years, she took up the two-year diploma course at Nanyang Polytechnic in 2006 after learning about it in an advertisement.
That year, her mother suffered a stroke and needed help to move around. 'I felt that I could acquire a lifelong skill and use it at home to care for my mother,' said the commerce graduate.
She is unfazed by the 50 per cent pay cut and physically demanding work.
In fact, she finds working with cancer patients both fulfilling and challenging.
'Sometimes, when the patients are in pain, they may yell at us. But we need to understand why they do that. It's because of what they are going through.'
She added: 'My biggest satisfaction comes from seeing that my patients are comfortable and happy.'
[email protected]
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</TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- headline one : end --></TD></TR><TR><TD>Positions like doctors, nurses and occupational therapists at 2 new hospitals must be filled by March </TD></TR><TR><TD><!-- Author --></TD></TR><TR><TD class="padlrt8 georgia11 darkgrey bold" colSpan=2>By Jamie Ee Wen Wei
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The sector is tapping 'mid-career switchers' like nurse Emily Lau, who worked in a finance firm previously. -- ST PHOTO: SAMUEL HE
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->The health-care sector is going on a year-end recruitment drive to fill 1,500 positions at two new hospitals by March next year.
Wanted: Doctors, nurses, occupational therapists and other health professionals.
Some 600 of the jobs are available at the 550-bed Khoo Teck Puat Hospital which opens in Yishun next March.
The core team for the new hospital will come from Alexandra Hospital (AH).
Ms Fatimah Moideen Kutty, AH's deputy director of human resource, said part of its recruitment strategy has been to target residents in the north.
In the last two years, it managed to hire about 300 people in Yishun.
The other 900 jobs will be at the Jurong General Hospital (JGH), which will be ready by 2014. The staff need to be hired by March to take over at Alexandra Hospital, which will be the temporary premises for JGH.
Mr Foo Hee Jug, chief executive officer of JGH, said: 'We are looking for people with the passion to serve. We are very open to 'mid-career switchers' because their level of maturity would be higher, and in health care, a certain level of resilience is needed.'
He noted that nurses and allied health professionals such as physiotherapists will be in greater demand as the shortage of doctors worldwide increases.
'Not everyone will need specialist care, so some duties will be passed down to nurses and allied health professionals,' he said.
To meet the demand for health-care workers, the two hospitals are also looking overseas to recruit staff.
JGH has ventured to India and the Philippines to recruit nurses.
Recently, the Ministry of Health collaborated with the Workforce Development Agency to launch a campaign to tap those considering a mid-career switch to nursing and allied health careers.
A series of career previews was organised to promote the Professional Conversion Programme (PCP) for these jobs.
This year, about 50 people enrolled for the diploma in nursing course under the PCP. This is almost double the number who enrolled in 2007.
One graduate, Ms Emily Lau, 37, has been working as a staff nurse at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) since May this year.
A relationship manager at a finance company for almost 10 years, she took up the two-year diploma course at Nanyang Polytechnic in 2006 after learning about it in an advertisement.
That year, her mother suffered a stroke and needed help to move around. 'I felt that I could acquire a lifelong skill and use it at home to care for my mother,' said the commerce graduate.
She is unfazed by the 50 per cent pay cut and physically demanding work.
In fact, she finds working with cancer patients both fulfilling and challenging.
'Sometimes, when the patients are in pain, they may yell at us. But we need to understand why they do that. It's because of what they are going through.'
She added: 'My biggest satisfaction comes from seeing that my patients are comfortable and happy.'
[email protected]
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