Care Associate; Home Care Job Singapore,Healthcare

Position: Care Associate (Home Care)(Full-time)

Job Description

The Care Associate provides home-based personal care services that aims to assist clients with their daily activities of living, to enable them to continue to live in the comfort and security of their own home.

Duties include but not limited to companionship, personal hygiene, medical escort, grocery shopping, meal preparation, feeding and light housekeeping.

1. Companionship & Recreational Activities

Have positive conversation, chit chat and provide a listening ear to client and client with dementia
Conduct mind stimulating games, simple card or board games with client.
Engage in recreational activities according to client's interest e.g. reading newspaper, playing musical instruments, singing, etc.

2. Personal Hygiene / Showering / Grooming

Change diapers, clean and dry body parts
Full body bed sponging (wash hair on bed, if required), including cleaning of face, eye, mouth, teeth and ear.
Assist to toilet for showering and assist with showering
Apply moisturizer and topical cream, if required.

3. Simple Exercises

Strengthen joints and muscles of lower and upper limbs by conducting range of motion and joint movement exercises (from head to toe)

4. Transferring and Positioning

To transfer client from bed to commode or wheelchair or chair and back

5. Errands and Grocery Shopping

To run errands or do grocery shopping with / without client to markets / shops within approximately 5-10 minutes' walk from the client's home.

6. Meal Preparations

To cook simple home-cooked food that does not take more than 45 mins to prepare or buy healthy food from outside for client only

7. Light Housekeeping

To identify and rectify basic home hazards to prevent falls / slips e.g. wet floor, untidy walkways that prevent easy maneuver
To ensure client's living space (bedroom, living room, toilet, hallways) is dry and clean by sweeping, mopping and tidying
To ensure that kitchen stove and table is clean after cooking
To wash the plates and pots after meals / use
If washing machine is available, to wash the client's clothes and hang dry

8. Medical Escort

To assist with walking and boarding the transport vehicle
To guide client around the clinic / hospital premises
To collect medications / receipts and explain to client / caregiver
To accompany and assist the client in the examination room
To securely carry the client's documents

Qualifications

Preferably GCE O-Level
Good interpersonal skills
Passion in community services and service-oriented

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