Sarah Jane Ching

As an energetic talented health professional, I am seeking a career applying my multilevel skills in the healthcare industry in Canada.

Admin IV Support – Physician Clinics Endocrinology and Metabolism Program - Alberta Health Services – Richmond Diagnostic Centre - Calgary, Alberta

(2025-06)

• Obtaining and recording vital signs
• Checking In, booking patients, pre-registration, scanning research documents in connectcare
• Preparing clients, equipment and supplies for physician visit
• Assisting with client movement within the clinic
• Recording findings and generally contributing to efficient processes that optimize the client/professional clinic visit experience
• Responsible for initiating and completing the 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure procedure

Community Health Ambassador - Calgary Catholic Immigration Society - Calgary, Alberta

(2024-10 - 2025-10)

• Work collaboratively with members of the Project team to develop an effective outreach plan to engage newcomers in HPV self-sampling
• Support and lead community outreach activities, educational sessions, and other health promotion activities related to HPV self-sampling
• Support in the implementation of the new HPV self-sampling in reaching underserved population such Indigenous groups, refugees and newcomers to Canada
• Collaborate with CCIS Staff to coordinate presentations to relevant programs (eg. ESL and LINC classes) about HPV self-sampling
• Co-facilitate Women's Health Events alongside the Project Team
• Distribute and collect HPV self-sampling kits directly in the community
• Provide practical education on navigating the healthcare system in Alberta such as how to register for MyHealth Alberta
• Provide interpretation services during community engagement activities
• Ultimately acting as a cultural broker to facilitate understanding and promote accurate information exchange
• Facilitate effective communication between the Project Team and regularly reports service delivery
• Participate in the collection of project evaluation activities (tracking key outcomes, survey dissemination, recruit for interviews)
• Maintain accurate and confidential records of client interactions
• Any other relevant tasks needed by the Manager and the Project Team

Medical Office Assistant (practicum) - Medicare Clinic Royal Oak - Calgary, Alberta

(2024-01 - 2024-03)

• Manage external and internal phone lines, and transfer calls to appropriate personnel
• Schedule and confirm patient appointments, tests and follow-ups, and manage physician schedules
• Greet and direct patients to appropriate medical resources and/or services
• Update and maintain electronic medical record system
• Measure and document vital signs on each patient
• Share information collected from patients with the appropriate medical team members
• Handle confidential correspondence, including phone, email, fax and mail
• Provide administrative support and perform clerical duties
• Prepare examination rooms with the necessary medical supplies and equipment
• Helping to monitor inventory of medical supplies and materials, and order as required

Medical Interpreter (Tagalog Medical interpreter) - Voyce global - Florida, United States

(2023-05 - 2023-07)

Provide accurate interpretation of critical medical information in direct service to physicians who are seeing patients who cannot speak English when specifically required by the provider.

Tagalog Medical interpreter - Can Talk Canada - Winnipeg, Manitoba

(2023-09)

Provide accurate interpretation of critical information in direct services to providers in the field of Medicine, Law, Business, 911/Emergency, Insurance who are seeing clients who cannot speak English when specifically required by the provider.

Tagalog Medical Interpreter - Sandal Translation Services - Calgary, Alberta

(2023-12)

Provide accurate interpretation of critical information in direct services to providers in the field of Medicine, Law, Business, 911/Emergency, Insurance who are seeing clients who cannot speak English when specifically required by the provider.

Tagalog Interpreter - Calgary Catholic Immigration Society - Calgary, Alberta

(2024-04)

Provide accurate interpretation of critical information in direct services to providers in the field of Medicine, Law, Business, 911/Emergency, Insurance who are seeing clients who cannot speak English when specifically required by the provider.

Licensed Health Care Aide - Alberta Health Services – Foothills Emergency Department - Calgary, Alberta

(2021-11)

Unit 46 (Internal Medicine) - Focus of Patient Care

• Working with Float RN and Primary RNs in the assigned area
• Performing CPR as requested (responsible for LUCAS placement, operation, and cleaning maintenance)
• Documentation of patient condition using Connect Care

Licensed Health Care Aide - Alberta Health Services – Alberta Children's Hospital Emergency Department - Calgary, Alberta

(2024-07)

Focus of Patient Care

• Working with Float RN and Primary RNs in the assigned area
• Documentation of patient condition using Connect Care

Licensed Health Care Aide - Bethany Care Society – Harvest Hills

(2015-05 - 2020-05)

• Provide nursing care for patients with late stages of dementia
• Accurate documentation of each patient daily condition using point of care

Emergency Physician - Nazarenus College Foundation Hospital - Bulacan, Philippines

(2002-01 - 2019-12)

• Perform History and Physical Examination
• Management of Emergency department patients

International Medical Graduate Vaccine Health Navigator - Alberta Internal Medical Graduate Association – Calgary, Alberta / Action Dignity / City of Calgary - Calgary, Alberta

(2021-05 - 2021-12)

Multilingual Emergency response Team IMG

• Provide the latest official updates from AHS, the Government of Alberta, the City of Calgary on Alberta's vaccine roll out to ethnocultural communities
• Make calls and provides support for people who have concerns about Covid 19 vaccination
• Provide vaccination information, vaccination bookings and address hesitancy on vaccination over the phone from community callers
• Charting of the interview/data collection on excel spreadsheet for daily reporting and monitoring
• Participate on in person community outreach to help those people with vaccine hesitancy to understand the benefits and drawback of the COVID 19 vaccines
• Provide interpretation of frequently asked questions regarding Covid 19 vaccines in native language (Tagalog)
• Participate in construction Frequently asked Question on Vaccination
• Reports to Health and Wellness IMG Coordinator the statistics of successful and unsuccessful calls
• Attends community town hall meetings
• Education about Covid 19 Vaccines through live presentation in the community
• Providing assistance to clients about vaccine-related information
• Collaborates with community health organizations to set up vaccine clinics for high-risk newcomer immigrants in Canada
• Facilitating clinic access of locations for Covid 19 vaccination
• Incorporating accurate, local vaccine information into language training classes
• Offering support services such as childminding, transportation, translation, interpretation and supports for newcomers with disabilities, to support vaccination efforts for vulnerable population
• Creating podcasts, conducting webinars and live tv presentations in the communities about Covid 19 Vaccines
• Liase with Community Cultural Brokers, Community Leaders, social media about the importance of Covid 19 vaccines that will help impact in stopping the spread of Covid 19 in the community

Administrative Support V – Contact Tracing Support Specialist - Alberta Health Services (CDC – Centre for Disease Control) - Calgary, Alberta

(2020-12 - 2021-08)

• Contacting patients with covid 19 by phone and accurate investigation of cases in communicable disease outbreak management program submitted at CDC in a timely manner
• Providing education of appropriate measures in order to prevent spread of virus for patients diagnosed with Covid 19
• Provide written referrals to MOH, SHE and Outbreak team via email as directed by team lead using Microsoft office suites, SharePoint
• Contact notification by phone of close contacts of patients affected with covid 19 and provides education and support related to quarantine requirements according to the protocol by CDC
• Sending notification letters to parents of students in school

Certificate - Medical Office Assistant - MCG Career College (2024-01 - 2024-12)

Certificate of Attendance - Advance Care Planning - Alberta Health Services (2023-01 - 2023-12)

Certificate - Enriched Academy - MCG Career College (2023-01 - 2023-12)

Certificate - FOIP - MCG Career College (2023-01 - 2023-12)

Certificate - PIPEDA & PHIPA - Voyce global (2023-01 - 2023-12)

Certificate of Completion - Health Care Aide Directory - Dementia Care, Mental Health, and Addictions, Palliative and End of Life Care, HCA Professional Development - Alberta Health Services (2021-01 - 2021-12)

Certificate - Health Care Aide - ABM College (2010-01 - 2010-12)

Postgraduate Medical Graduate Training - Medicine - Veterans Memorial Medical Center (2001-01 - 2001-12)

Doctor of Medicine - Medicine - De La Salle University Health Sciences Campus (2000-01 - 2000-12)

Bachelor of Science - Physics - De La Salle University (1994-01 - 1994-12)