CARE PRO (Locum)

Join our home care team as a locum care pro to provide joy and care to our home care patients. You will be required to commit at least 20 hours per week.

If you have what it takes, we love to hear from you!

Kindly ensure that your NRIC no. is not stated in the resume. 

 

Job Description:

  • Complies with approved standards of nursing practice.
  • Participates in activities to improve quality of care.
  • Attending to the needs of clients. Ensures safety, comfort and well-being of clients and reports client’s needs to the primary nurse.
  • Checks, monitors, and records clients’ vital signs such as temperature, pulse, respirations and blood pressure.
  • Ensures the comfort and good personal hygiene of the client, e.g. bed bath/ shower bath, changing of clothes and bed sheets, keeping them clean and dry.
  • Able to support transfer and assist clients.
  • Assists in conducting exercises for clients, medication administration, and feeding clients via oral, nasogastric tube (NGT) and percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG).
  • Maintains documentation of care given.
  • Assist in nursing care, e.g. caring for patients with urinary catheter, draining and changing of urine bag.
  • Accompanies clients to hospital/ polyclinic for follow-up appointments.
  • Alerts primary nurses to emergency situations.
  • Maintains a safe and clean home environment for client if client and/ or client’s caregiver is unable to do so.
  • Willing to work weekends, afternoon or night shifts.
  • Any other duties as assigned by reporting officer.

 

Job Requirements:

  • GCE N Level or equivalent
  • WSQ Higher Certificate / Advanced Certificate in Healthcare Support (Nursing Care)
  • ITE Approved Training Centre Healthcare (Home Care) program.
  • At least 1-year of experience in providing Home Personal Care.

 

Salary per hour: $20 – $24 per hour

Commitment per week: Minimum 20 hours per week

 

To apply, email your resume to recruit@hnf.org.sg