Post-Operative Caregiver (Private Home)

Your care keeps residents at a home-based care agency in Roodepoort safe, clean and comfortable through the day. This is a good step for someone who wants proper routine and a manager who notices good work.

Location: Roodepoort, Gauteng. Applicants who already live in the area get looked at first. The first two weeks are spent shadowing someone experienced.

• Spot confusion, falls risk or changes in mood and tell the nurse in charge
• Turn bed-bound patients on schedule and check pressure areas for early sores
• Hand out oral medication under the supervision of a registered nurse
• Keep families updated on routine matters and pass clinical questions to the sister
• Do simple wound dressings and report anything that looks infected
• Keep the fluid and food intake charts accurate for every patient
• Make beds, change linen and keep the rooms clean and uncluttered

• Accredited home-based care or ancillary health care certificate for caregiver posts
• SANC enrolment as an Enrolled Nurse or Enrolled Nursing Auxiliary for nursing posts
• First aid Level 1 or BLS certificate
• Matric or NQF Level 4 equivalent

• Dementia care or palliative care short course
• Code B or Code 8 driver's licence for home visits
• A second South African language spoken by the patients you'll serve

• Meals provided on shift at many frail care centres
• Paid training in dementia and end-of-life care
• Transport home after late shifts at some facilities

• 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.