Post-Operative Caregiver (Private Home)

Here you help people wash, eat, move and heal, at a physical rehabilitation hospital in Bethlehem. It's the kind of job where doing the basics well every day gets you noticed.

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

• Keep the fluid and food intake charts accurate for every patient
• Turn bed-bound patients on schedule and check pressure areas for early sores
• Help patients walk, transfer from bed to chair and do their exercises
• Spot confusion, falls risk or changes in mood and tell the nurse in charge
• Keep families updated on routine matters and pass clinical questions to the sister
• Hand out oral medication under the supervision of a registered nurse
• Do simple wound dressings and report anything that looks infected

• Patient and gentle with elderly, frail or confused people
• Able to work shifts, including nights and weekends
• SANC enrolment as an Enrolled Nurse or Enrolled Nursing Auxiliary for nursing posts
• Accredited home-based care or ancillary health care certificate for caregiver posts
• At least 1 year of hands-on patient care
• Physically strong enough to lift and move patients safely

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

• Meals provided on shift at many frail care centres
• Uniform supplied
• Overtime paid at time and a half
• Transport home after late shifts at some facilities

• 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.