Post-Operative Caregiver (Private Home) – Fixed-Term

Your care keeps residents at a physical rehabilitation hospital in Germiston safe, clean and comfortable through the day. It's the kind of job where doing the basics well every day gets you noticed.

This post is Germiston-based, with most of your time spent at a physical rehabilitation hospital. Most weeks are 45 hours, in line with the BCEA.

• Keep the fluid and food intake charts accurate for every patient
• Turn bed-bound patients on schedule and check pressure areas for early sores
• Take and chart temperature, pulse, blood pressure and blood glucose
• Follow infection control rules, including hand hygiene and safe sharps disposal
• 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

• Patient and gentle with elderly, frail or confused people
• Matric or NQF Level 4 equivalent
• At least 1 year of hands-on patient care
• Accredited home-based care or ancillary health care certificate for caregiver posts
• First aid Level 1 or BLS certificate
• Physically strong enough to lift and move patients safely

• Dementia care or palliative care short course
• A second South African language spoken by the patients you'll serve

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

• 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.