Home-Based Caregiver (Live-In)

Here you help people wash, eat, move and heal, at a hospice in-patient unit in Pretoria West. Bring a calm head on busy days and you'll be fine.

The work is in Pretoria West, Gauteng, so you'll need a reliable way to get there every day.

• Help patients walk, transfer from bed to chair and do their exercises
• Do simple wound dressings and report anything that looks infected
• Take and chart temperature, pulse, blood pressure and blood glucose
• Follow infection control rules, including hand hygiene and safe sharps disposal
• 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
• Keep the fluid and food intake charts accurate for every patient

• At least 1 year of hands-on patient care
• Able to work shifts, including nights and weekends
• Matric or NQF Level 4 equivalent
• SANC enrolment as an Enrolled Nurse or Enrolled Nursing Auxiliary for nursing posts

• 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

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

• If you're a caregiver, attach the certificate from the training provider, not just a letter saying you attended.
• Name the type of patients you've cared for, such as stroke patients or dementia residents, in your first CV line.