Home-Based Caregiver (Live-In)

Your care keeps residents at a private medical ward in Vereeniging safe, clean and comfortable through the day. This is a good step for someone who wants proper routine and a manager who notices good work.

Location: Vereeniging, Gauteng. Applicants who already live in the area get looked at first. Start date: as soon as possible for the right person.

• 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
• 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
• Hand out oral medication under the supervision of a registered nurse
• Do simple wound dressings and report anything that looks infected
• Take and chart temperature, pulse, blood pressure and blood glucose

• Accredited home-based care or ancillary health care certificate for caregiver posts
• Patient and gentle with elderly, frail or confused people
• First aid Level 1 or BLS certificate
• At least 1 year of hands-on patient care
• SANC enrolment as an Enrolled Nurse or Enrolled Nursing Auxiliary for nursing posts

• A second South African language spoken by the patients you'll serve
• 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

• Name the type of patients you've cared for, such as stroke patients or dementia residents, in your first CV line.
• Recruiters phone references for care jobs, so warn your references and check their numbers still work.