Home-Based Caregiver (Live-In)

You'll give hands-on nursing care at a home-based care agency in Epping, working alongside registered nurses. Expect to be trusted with real work from your first week.

Home base is a home-based care agency on the Epping side of Western Cape. The first two weeks are spent shadowing someone experienced.

• Spot confusion, falls risk or changes in mood and tell the nurse in charge
• Help patients walk, transfer from bed to chair and do their exercises
• Hand out oral medication under the supervision of a registered nurse
• Take and chart temperature, pulse, blood pressure and blood glucose
• Keep the fluid and food intake charts accurate for every patient

• Able to work shifts, including nights and weekends
• Physically strong enough to lift and move patients safely
• SANC enrolment as an Enrolled Nurse or Enrolled Nursing Auxiliary for nursing posts
• First aid Level 1 or BLS certificate

• Uniform supplied
• Meals provided on shift at many frail care centres
• Paid training in dementia and end-of-life care
• 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.