Home-Based Caregiver (Live-In)

You'll give hands-on nursing care at a physical rehabilitation hospital in Somerset West, working alongside registered nurses. It suits someone who likes knowing exactly what a good day's work looks like.

The site is in Somerset West; early starts mean public transport timing matters, so check your route before applying.

• Follow infection control rules, including hand hygiene and safe sharps disposal
• Keep families updated on routine matters and pass clinical questions to the sister
• Take and chart temperature, pulse, blood pressure and blood glucose
• 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
• Do simple wound dressings and report anything that looks infected

• Able to work shifts, including nights and weekends
• Matric or NQF Level 4 equivalent
• Patient and gentle with elderly, frail or confused people
• Accredited home-based care or ancillary health care certificate for caregiver posts
• Physically strong enough to lift and move patients safely

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

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

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