Post-Operative Caregiver (Private Home)

Here you help people wash, eat, move and heal, at a hospice in-patient unit in Fourways. Expect to be trusted with real work from your first week.

Location: Fourways, Gauteng. Applicants who already live in the area get looked at first. Weekend work is on a roster, so you won't be on every weekend.

• Do simple wound dressings and report anything that looks infected
• 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
• 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
• Make beds, change linen and keep the rooms clean and uncluttered

• At least 1 year of hands-on patient care
• Physically strong enough to lift and move patients safely
• Able to work shifts, including nights and weekends
• First aid Level 1 or BLS certificate

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

• Meals provided on shift at many frail care centres
• Transport home after late shifts at some facilities
• 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.