Care Worker

 

Recruiter:

Corporate Solutions

Job Ref:

CW503

Date posted:

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary:

200000


SUMMARY:
Care Worker

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Take a report from the previous shift
  • Assist patients in preparation for meals, drinks, and snacks when necessary.
  • Feed patients if needed.
  • Record and report all relevant information to the Registered Nurse on duty.
  • Assist patients with fluids
  • Assist patients in the dining room.
  • Put bibs on for those who need it. 
  • Help dish up and cut food for patients who are too weak.
  • Do rounds by your patients
  • Assist residents with their daily tasks that they cannot manage and provide general support as part of a caring team.
  • Assist and encourage dietary & fluid intake
  • Monitoring health-related conditions such as dietary & fluid intake.
  • To help residents with mobility difficulties, and/or other physical disabilities, including incontinence.
  • Safely using aids and personal equipment in a manner that respects the dignity of clients.
  • Record and report all relevant residents’ information.
  • Ensure individuality and personal dignity by promoting high standards of care and encouraging independence where appropriate.
  • Ensure that different cultural needs are catered for sensitively.
  • Respect the confidential nature of the work.
  • Provide direct care to residents as circumstances require.
  • Attend meetings, case conferences and training courses as required.
  • Contribute to an effective system of communication within the team, by discussion and regular team meetings.
  • To undertake such duties and responsibilities of an equivalent nature, as may be determined by the sister in charge from time to time in consultation with the post holder.
  • Ensure that the Health and Safety policies are implemented at all times.
  • Undertake any other duties specified by Management
  • Assist patients with getting up in the mornings/going to bed in the evenings.
  • Ensure that patients have been bathed and washed before and after getting up.
  •  Ensure that the men have been shaven, and the woman’s hair has been washed.
  • Take the report from the day/night staff.
  • Do rounds at patients.
  • Assist co-workers where necessary.
  • Do hourly rounds and advise co-workers where needed.
  • Assist with fluid intake during teatime with residents.
  • Ensure that the tee-trolley is fetched at mealtimes. This is both the care-worker and the enrolled nurse’s duty.
  • Check nappies for the night and record nappy rounds.

 

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