Home-Based Caregiver (Live-In)

Your care keeps residents at a retirement village frail care centre in Secunda safe, clean and comfortable through the day. People who do well here are steady, honest and not scared to ask when something is unclear.

This post is in Secunda (Mpumalanga). Please only apply if you can travel there daily.

• Help patients bath, dress, eat and use the toilet with dignity
• Keep the fluid and food intake charts accurate for every patient
• Follow infection control rules, including hand hygiene and safe sharps disposal
• Help patients walk, transfer from bed to chair and do their exercises
• Turn bed-bound patients on schedule and check pressure areas for early sores

• Able to work shifts, including nights and weekends
• SANC enrolment as an Enrolled Nurse or Enrolled Nursing Auxiliary for nursing posts
• Matric or NQF Level 4 equivalent
• At least 1 year of hands-on patient care
• Physically strong enough to lift and move patients safely
• Accredited home-based care or ancillary health care certificate for caregiver posts

• Uniform supplied
• Overtime paid at time and a half
• Paid training in dementia and end-of-life care

• 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.