Frail Care Assistant (Retirement Village)

Your care keeps residents at a home-based care agency in Alberton safe, clean and comfortable through the day. You don't need to be the loudest person in the room, just the one others can count on.

Home base is a home-based care agency on the Alberton side of Gauteng.

• Keep families updated on routine matters and pass clinical questions to the sister
• Help patients walk, transfer from bed to chair and do their exercises
• Follow infection control rules, including hand hygiene and safe sharps disposal
• Help patients bath, dress, eat and use the toilet with dignity
• Do simple wound dressings and report anything that looks infected
• Make beds, change linen and keep the rooms clean and uncluttered

• Accredited home-based care or ancillary health care certificate for caregiver posts
• First aid Level 1 or BLS certificate
• SANC enrolment as an Enrolled Nurse or Enrolled Nursing Auxiliary for nursing posts
• Able to work shifts, including nights and weekends
• Matric or NQF Level 4 equivalent
• Physically strong enough to lift and move patients safely

• Meals provided on shift at many frail care centres
• Transport home after late shifts at some facilities
• Overtime paid at time and a half

• Name the type of patients you've cared for, such as stroke patients or dementia residents, in your first CV line.
• If you're a caregiver, attach the certificate from the training provider, not just a letter saying you attended.