Home-Based Caregiver (Live-In)

Here you help people wash, eat, move and heal, at a home-based care agency in Benoni. People who do well here are steady, honest and not scared to ask when something is unclear.

The site is in Benoni; early starts mean public transport timing matters, so check your route before applying.

• Hand out oral medication under the supervision of a registered nurse
• Make beds, change linen and keep the rooms clean and uncluttered
• Do simple wound dressings and report anything that looks infected
• Help patients walk, transfer from bed to chair and do their exercises
• Help patients bath, dress, eat and use the toilet with dignity

• SANC enrolment as an Enrolled Nurse or Enrolled Nursing Auxiliary for nursing posts
• Able to work shifts, including nights and weekends
• At least 1 year of hands-on patient care
• Matric or NQF Level 4 equivalent
• Patient and gentle with elderly, frail or confused people
• Accredited home-based care or ancillary health care certificate for caregiver posts

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

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

• Recruiters phone references for care jobs, so warn your references and check their numbers still work.
• Name the type of patients you've cared for, such as stroke patients or dementia residents, in your first CV line.