Home-Based Caregiver (Live-In)

Your care keeps residents at a home-based care agency in Epping safe, clean and comfortable through the day. It's the kind of job where doing the basics well every day gets you noticed.

This post is in Epping (Western Cape). Please only apply if you can travel there daily. The first two weeks are spent shadowing someone experienced.

• Follow infection control rules, including hand hygiene and safe sharps disposal
• Make beds, change linen and keep the rooms clean and uncluttered
• Spot confusion, falls risk or changes in mood and tell the nurse in charge
• Keep the fluid and food intake charts accurate for every patient
• Take and chart temperature, pulse, blood pressure and blood glucose
• Keep families updated on routine matters and pass clinical questions to the sister

• At least 1 year of hands-on patient care
• First aid Level 1 or BLS certificate
• Patient and gentle with elderly, frail or confused people
• SANC enrolment as an Enrolled Nurse or Enrolled Nursing Auxiliary for nursing posts
• Physically strong enough to lift and move patients safely
• 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

• Uniform supplied
• Overtime paid at time and a half
• Meals provided on shift at many frail care centres

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