Care Provided: Day Night
Languages: English Krio
Age: 50+
Years Experience: 11
Description
Personal Assistant and Care practitioner with over 10years hands-on experience, where I have gained experience and contribute my acquired skills to improve the set objective and achieve goals and targets. I am a people’s person who listen attentively to provide the required service of my clients with good communications skills. I can defuse potential conflict situation by understanding the situation and finding a prompt resolution where necessary before it gets worse. I have integrity and good strength of character.
A team player who works with people from different background, respect diversity and confidentiality. Ability to learn and integrate quickly. I take feedback very seriously to continuously improve.
- Assisting service users with their activities of daily living, e.g., getting up in the morning, going to bed at nights, dressing, undressing, washing, bathing, and help using the toilet.
- Assisting service users overcome any mobility problems and other physical disabilities, by using aid or personal equipment.
- Help them to live physically and comfortably, tidying of rooms, light cleaning, changing beds laundry, emptying commodes.
- Assist service users with food preparations, snacks, drinks, to help them with their eating and drinking.
- Assisted with feeding when they find it difficult to be done by themselves.
- Contributed to specialised care plans, e.g., for people with dementia and continence difficulties.
- Assisted service users with their prescribed medication (as specified on their care plans)
- Helped service users who were temporary sick with minor dressings, bed nursing and help with feeding.
- Assist if needed, with a person’s end-of-life care.
- Sitting and talking with them to promote users’ mental health, encourage them to do things for themselves. Taking them shopping, prompting, reading, writing.
Skills - I have been trained with the following skills
Supporting Children Supporting Young Adults Bathing Toileting Assistance with Dressing Catheter Care Nebulizer Companionship Cooking Laundry Cleaning Administrative Tasks Hoist Assistance Moving and Handling Medication Reminders Eating and Drinking Assistance
Experience - I have worked with these issues in the past
Mild Cognitive Impairment Bedbound Parkinson's Disease Anxiety Depression Type 1 Diabetes (Insulin Dependent) Type 2 Diabetes (Non Insulin Dependent) Osteoporosis Rheumatoid Arthritis Heart Disease Stroke Post Operative HIV / AIDS Orthopaedic Injuries / Broken Bones Cancer Respiratory Illness (COPD, Asthma, etc.) Urinary Disorder (UTI, Incontinence, etc.) Poor or Declining Mobility Dementia (Alzheimer, Vascular, etc.) Deafness Visual Impairment Physical Disability End Of Life Care ME/CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome)
I get to work by: Public transport
Can I Drive Patients? No, I cannot drive
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