Post-Operative Caregiver (Private Home) – Permanent

Your care keeps residents at a hospice in-patient unit in Centurion safe, clean and comfortable through the day. If you learn fast and don't mind being shown things twice, you'll settle in within a few weeks.

You'll be based at a hospice in-patient unit in Centurion. Living nearby, or on a taxi route to it, really helps. Shifts rotate, so you'll need to be flexible about days and nights.

• Keep the fluid and food intake charts accurate for every patient
• Hand out oral medication under the supervision of a registered nurse
• Turn bed-bound patients on schedule and check pressure areas for early sores
• Take and chart temperature, pulse, blood pressure and blood glucose
• Keep families updated on routine matters and pass clinical questions to the sister
• Help patients bath, dress, eat and use the toilet with dignity
• Help patients walk, transfer from bed to chair and do their exercises

• At least 1 year of hands-on patient care
• SANC enrolment as an Enrolled Nurse or Enrolled Nursing Auxiliary for nursing posts
• First aid Level 1 or BLS certificate
• Accredited home-based care or ancillary health care certificate for caregiver posts
• Physically strong enough to lift and move patients safely

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

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

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