Frail Care Assistant (Retirement Village)

A hospice in-patient unit in Boksburg needs someone kind and reliable to look after patients who can't manage alone. If you learn fast and don't mind being shown things twice, you'll settle in within a few weeks.

This post is in Boksburg (Gauteng). Please only apply if you can travel there daily.

• Keep families updated on routine matters and pass clinical questions to the sister
• Do simple wound dressings and report anything that looks infected
• Take and chart temperature, pulse, blood pressure and blood glucose
• Spot confusion, falls risk or changes in mood and tell the nurse in charge
• Follow infection control rules, including hand hygiene and safe sharps disposal
• Turn bed-bound patients on schedule and check pressure areas for early sores

• Patient and gentle with elderly, frail or confused people
• Physically strong enough to lift and move patients safely
• Accredited home-based care or ancillary health care certificate for caregiver posts
• SANC enrolment as an Enrolled Nurse or Enrolled Nursing Auxiliary for nursing posts
• Matric or NQF Level 4 equivalent

• Code B or Code 8 driver's licence for home visits
• Experience in a frail care or hospice setting
• Dementia care or palliative care short course

• Transport home after late shifts at some facilities
• Overtime paid at time and a half
• Paid training in dementia and end-of-life care
• Meals provided on shift at many frail care centres

• If you're a caregiver, attach the certificate from the training provider, not just a letter saying you attended.
• Recruiters phone references for care jobs, so warn your references and check their numbers still work.