Care Associate, Home Care
Singapore
Listed on 2026-02-27
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Healthcare
Healthcare Nursing, Home Health Aide
COMPANY DESCRIPTION
NTUC Health Co-operative Limited (NTUC Health) is an NTUC enterprise that provides a comprehensive and integrated suite of quality and affordable health and eldercare services to meet the growing needs of families and their dependents. Building on more than four decades of experience and expertise, NTUC Health is among the largest senior day care, nursing home and home personal care providers in Singapore.
It also offers other services for seniors such as an active ageing hub, senior activity centres, community support for vulnerable seniors, and a sheltered / senior group home. In addition, it runs a chain of dental clinics, and a family medicine clinic.
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.
You will need to:
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.
- 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.
- Strengthen joints and muscles of lower and upper limbs by conducting range of motion and joint movement exercises (from head to toe)
- To transfer client from bed to commode or wheelchair or chair and back
- To run errands or do grocery shopping with/without client to markets/shops within approximately 5-10 minutes' walk from the client's home.
- 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
- 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
- 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
You should:
- Have certification in Healthcare related courses.
- Have good interpersonal skills
- Have passion in community services and service-oriented
It would be great if you:
- Are able to speak one or more dialects, as you will be required to communicate with dialect-speaking clients.
Please note that your application will be sent to and reviewed by the direct employer - NTUC Health.
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