Home-Based Caregiver (Live-In)

Your care keeps residents at a home-based care agency in Boksburg 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 Boksburg side of Gauteng.

• Follow infection control rules, including hand hygiene and safe sharps disposal
• Help patients walk, transfer from bed to chair and do their exercises
• Hand out oral medication under the supervision of a registered nurse
• Spot confusion, falls risk or changes in mood and tell the nurse in charge
• Take and chart temperature, pulse, blood pressure and blood glucose
• Keep the fluid and food intake charts accurate for every patient
• Make beds, change linen and keep the rooms clean and uncluttered

• Matric or NQF Level 4 equivalent
• Patient and gentle with elderly, frail or confused people
• 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

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

• Paid training in dementia and end-of-life care
• Transport home after late shifts at some facilities
• Uniform supplied
• 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.