Care Associate (Home Care)(Full-time)

NTUC Health; Singapore; On-site; SGD 20,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in Singapore is seeking a Care Associate to deliver home-based personal care services. Responsibilities include providing companionship, assisting with personal hygiene, running errands, and cooking simple meals. The ideal candidate should have good interpersonal skills and a passion for community service, preferably with GCE O-Level qualifications. This role is crucial for enabling clients to live comfortably and securely in their own homes.

Qualifications

• Preferably GCE O-Level.
• Good interpersonal skills required.
• Passion for community services and service-oriented attitude.

Responsibilities

• Provide companionship and recreational activities to clients.
• Assist clients with personal hygiene and grooming.
• Conduct simple exercises to strengthen joints and muscles.
• Transfer clients between bed, commode, or wheelchair.
• Run errands and do grocery shopping for clients.
• Prepare healthy meals for clients.
• Identify and rectify basic home hazards.
• Assist clients during medical appointments.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Companionship

Personal care assistance

Education

GCE O-Level

Job description

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