Health Coach Trainee

To promote holistic well-being to meet service users’ physical, social, and mental health needs, young professionals and paraprofessionals will be equipped with relevant industry-specific knowledge, and will bring new energy to the delivery and management of quality healthcare services to the community.

Purposes

• Optimising and strengthening training to support treatment therapy
• Arranging physical exercises with use of geron-technological equipment

Potential Employers

• Using technological products to improve the health and quality of life for service users
• Providing including Community Services, District Health Centres, Multidisciplinary Outreaching Support Teams for the Elderly (MOSTE) and Residential Care Homes (both elderly services and rehabilitation services)
• Targeting various service groups including the elderly, persons with disabilities, physically handicapped persons, and public

Job Duties

• Assist the residential and community service users to actively exercise to maintain physical and mental health
• Assist professional therapists to perform physical function assessment and training, including coordination of limbs, cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, self-care functions, and fall prevention exercises
• Assist professional therapists to design personal activity training, including device-assisted therapy, physical training, vocational training plans, and gaming activities
• Use new technological products to assist in the specialist therapy training/daytime recreational activities
• Perform other related support works assigned by the supervisor, from sourcing new technological training products to inviting suppliers for demonstration and support other administrative work.

Career Prospects

After completion of the one-year traineeship programme, a Health Coach Trainee will be able to develop skills and working experience that allow them to pursue other career opportunities, such as the job roles listed below:

• Health Coach
• Community Health Officer

VASK

VASK for this role:

Values

• Concern for others
• Personal development
• Relationship with colleagues
• Variety of work

Attitudes

• Cheerful
• Conscientious
• Flexible
• Patient

Skills

• Adaptability skills
• Active listening skills
• Coordinating skills
• Innovating skills

Knowledge

• Knowledge related to Biology
• Knowledge related to Communications and Media
• Knowledge related to Education and Training
• Knowledge related to Psychology

Language Requirement

• Ability to communicate in Cantonese and English
• Ability to read/write in Chinese and English

The selected candidates are required to pass the "Sexual Conviction Record Check" obtained from the Hong Kong Police before on board.

Hiring Organisations

• Aberdeen Kai-fong Welfare Association Social Service
• Caritas Hong Kong
• Christian Family Service Centre
• Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Evangelical Lutheran Church Social Service-Hong Kong
• Fanling Assembly of God Church Primary School
• Forward Living
• Fu Hong Society
• Health In Action
• Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Welfare Council Limited
• Hong Kong Young Women's Christian Association
• New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association
• Po Leung Kuk
• Pok Oi Hospital
• Richmond Fellowship of Hong Kong
• St. James' Settlement
• The Boys' & Girls' Clubs Association of Hong Kong
• The Hong Kong Society for the Aged
• The Mental Health Association of Hong Kong
• The Society of Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention, Hong Kong
• Tung Wah Group of Hospitals
• Yan Oi Tong
• Yang Memorial Methodist Social Service