Post-Operative Caregiver (Private Home)

Here you help people wash, eat, move and heal, at a home-based care agency in Kariega. Expect to be trusted with real work from your first week.

The work is in Kariega, Eastern Cape, so you'll need a reliable way to get there every day. The first two weeks are spent shadowing someone experienced.

• Spot confusion, falls risk or changes in mood and tell the nurse in charge
• Help patients walk, transfer from bed to chair and do their exercises
• Take and chart temperature, pulse, blood pressure and blood glucose
• Keep the fluid and food intake charts accurate for every patient
• Follow infection control rules, including hand hygiene and safe sharps disposal
• Make beds, change linen and keep the rooms clean and uncluttered
• Hand out oral medication under the supervision of a registered nurse

• Accredited home-based care or ancillary health care certificate for caregiver posts
• Patient and gentle with elderly, frail or confused people
• First aid Level 1 or BLS certificate
• Able to work shifts, including nights and weekends
• Physically strong enough to lift and move patients safely
• Matric or NQF Level 4 equivalent

• Code B or Code 8 driver's licence for home visits
• Dementia care or palliative care short course

• Transport home after late shifts at some facilities
• Uniform supplied
• Overtime paid at time and a half

• Name the type of patients you've cared for, such as stroke patients or dementia residents, in your first CV line.
• If you're a caregiver, attach the certificate from the training provider, not just a letter saying you attended.