Home-Based Caregiver (Live-In)

You'll give hands-on nursing care at a home-based care agency in Tzaneen, working alongside registered nurses. It's a practical job: you'll see what you got done before you go home.

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

• Turn bed-bound patients on schedule and check pressure areas for early sores
• Do simple wound dressings and report anything that looks infected
• Hand out oral medication under the supervision of a registered nurse
• Follow infection control rules, including hand hygiene and safe sharps disposal
• Take and chart temperature, pulse, blood pressure and blood glucose
• Spot confusion, falls risk or changes in mood and tell the nurse in charge

• Able to work shifts, including nights and weekends
• Accredited home-based care or ancillary health care certificate for caregiver posts
• First aid Level 1 or BLS certificate
• At least 1 year of hands-on patient care

• 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

• Overtime paid at time and a half
• Transport home after late shifts at some facilities
• Uniform supplied
• 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.