Care Provider (Frail Care / Healthcare) – Somerset West, Western Cape 43 views

Requirements:

 

• Basic Care Providing Training with Certificate
• Understand resident hygiene and health and safety requirements
• Excellent personal hygiene
• Good reading, writing and speaking of English
• Course in dementia care
• Matriculation qualification
• Third language an advantage
• Must have experience with dementia patients

 

Skills & Characteristics:

• Excellent interpersonal relations
• Empathy to the elderly
• People Skills
• Good communication Skills
• Physically and emotionally able to
• Patience
• Maturity
• Reliable, responsible and trustworthy
• Assertive yet compassionate
• Positive attitude

 

The main purpose of this position:

 

Providing care and safety to residents within a home-like environment

 

Duties & Responsibilities:

 

Provide general, daily care for residents:

 

Personal hygiene:

• Oral hygiene
• Hair is clean
• Wash (bath/shower) regularly
• Wearing clean clothes
• Shave beard
• Groom nose and ear hair

 

• 2 to 3 hourly pressure care when needed
• Assist with toilet and/or incontinence wear
• Nails and toenails short and neat (report any abnormalities)
• Monitoring residents as instructed on care plan

 

Assisting the residents during meal times:

• Assist with feeding and serving of meals (only feeding on request of shift leader)
• Prevention of choking by handling food
• Protect residents’ clothes in a polite way (napkins)
• Assisting the kitchen staff in serving meals and drinks, as well as cleaning dining room areas afterwards
• Report any abnormalities (e.g. not eating well)

 

Ensure the safety of the residents at all times:

 

Comply with safety measures and regulations to prevent injuries to residents and themselves:

• Fall risks
• Fire risks
• Reporting elderly abuse (emotional, physical, financial)

 

• Residents should be within the premises at all times and closely monitored when on an outing
• Regular monitoring (at least every half an hour) of all allocated residents to ensure their safety, comfort and well-being

 

Creating and maintaining a clean, tidy environment for residents:

• Make residents’ beds and ensure that the linen is clean
• Soiled linen should be sluiced in the sluice room
• Keep resident’s room neat and tidy
• Report operational issues
• Complete daily housekeeping checklist
• Clean and tidy cupboards
• Take out laundry and fill in the laundry booklet (checking out and in of laundry)
• Dispose incontinence wear properly
• Ensure that the clothes in the cupboard are those of the resident and are indicated on the kit list

 

Record keeping and administration:

• Record all care and assistance rendered

 

Complete daily care documents up to date:

• In-and output documents
• Report bruises or physical changes
• Complete ABC chart in case of behaviour changes
• Report any cognitive, emotional or awareness changes
• Holistic resident care chart

 

• Abnormalities to be reported to the shift leader immediately

 

Assisting residents in activities of daily living to promote their well-being:

• Assist companions and therapists in exercises and activities
• Continue with activities when there is no companion or therapist available.
• Ensuring that residents are not bored
• Using electronic devices like radios and televisions to keep residents occupied, but using applicable channels

 

Ensuring that infection control is maintained on the floor:

• Carers must comply with the Infection Control measures as per the Infection Control Policies and Procedures of the company
• Adhere to good personal hygiene of themselves
• Incontinence wear should be removed to allocated areas as soon as possible
• Washing of hands should be done before and after resident care
• Self-motivation, training and developing yourself
• In-service training is compulsory and usually presented on an off-day
• Training could also be requested on the floor from the Training Manager or Shift Leader
• Care providers need a positive attitude towards residents, staff, families and the company to contribute to a good working environment
• Care providers must always look neat and professional and act accordingly
• Always treat families, residents and staff with respect, empathy and dignity