Healthcare Assistant

Purpose of the Job

Responsible for caring for clients with various medical conditions in the Senior Care Centre. To perform direct care duties including nursing care, elimination management, attend to clients' hygiene & grooming, monitor vital signs, ensuring clients' safety during care, perform simple nursing procedures under supervision, diet management including assistance with feeding, handles medical emergencies, conduct activities and support clinical administrative duties.

Key responsibility areas

• Perform vital signs monitoring and application of care for abnormal readings
• Perform baseline checks like taking height and weight for clients on ad-hoc on monthly basis
• Ensure safe transfer and ambulation of clients
• Attentive and reports clients' abnormal skin integrity
• Ensure safe restraints of clients on wheelchair under doctor's instruction
• Assist in both group and individual activities for clients
• Assist clients with all activities of daily living and report progress to Centre Manager and therapists
• Elimination management such as toileting and changing diapers
• Assist in safe preparation of food (example cutting, blending, reheating, thickener)
• Feeding of clients and ensure proper supervision of clients during meal times
• Attentive to persons with dementia and other mental disabilities
• Activate clinicians and assist them in emergencies
• Safe disinfection of rooms, furniture, equipment, used items and others
• Washing of utensils used by clients
• Handle blood or other body fluid spillages and safe disposal of waste
• Escorting clients on transport to & from centre/clinics/medical institutions
• Ensure safety of clients in transport and complying to safety measures.
• Maintain PDPA and centre operational matters in confidentiality
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Centre Manager/Management

Required qualifications and experience:

• GCE levels / WSQ Certificate in Healthcare Support (Nursing Care). Minimum Diploma in healthcare or equivalent for overseas qualifications.
• Minimum 1 year or above working experience in a Senior Care Centre, Nursing home or with similar settings.
• Trained in BCLS or CPR or first aid.

Required Competencies:

• Must be able to assist in lifting or transferring of clients,
• Able to converse in simple local languages and dialects.
• Able to handle medical emergencies and take lead in absence of clinicians.
• Reliable team member, possess positive work and good interpersonal skills.