Home-Based Caregiver (Live-In)

A home-based care agency in Worcester needs someone kind and reliable to look after patients who can't manage alone. You don't need to be the loudest person in the room, just the one others can count on.

Home base is a home-based care agency on the Worcester side of Western Cape. Start is planned for the beginning of next month.

• Follow infection control rules, including hand hygiene and safe sharps disposal
• Make beds, change linen and keep the rooms clean and uncluttered
• Take and chart temperature, pulse, blood pressure and blood glucose
• Keep the fluid and food intake charts accurate for every patient
• Help patients walk, transfer from bed to chair and do their exercises

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

• Dementia care or palliative care short course
• Experience in a frail care or hospice setting

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

• 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.