Assistant Carer Supervisors

**Responsibilities**:

- Supervise and coordinate the carer team by ensuring they are within their allocated areas
- Ensure the care team is consistently following patient care plans and completing daily charting accurately.
- Monitor that the carers are following policies, procedures and reporting non-compliance to the Carer Supervisor.
- Ensure that the carers respond promptly to call/panic buttons, and oversee that the accurate procedure is followed
- Assist carers with care tasks, activities, and exercises when necessary
- Addressing staff queries and providing guidance and ensure resolution
- Monitor residents' condition changes that may affect care plans and communicate concerns to the Shift Leader.
- Identify and escalate where carer training intervention might be required to the Carer Supervisor
- Submit daily handover reports and ensure carer equipment is distributed to staff and neatly stored in designated areas at the end of each shift
- Promptly report and document incidents.
- Ensure patient inventory e.g nappies and toiletries are sufficiently stocked
- Perform weekly spot checks on resident rooms, equipment, and physical health.
- Follow infection control procedures and conduct quality checks.
- Ensure grooming photos, including hair, nails, and overall appearance, are taken and uploaded as required
- Ensure ongoing communication with the team to address any concerns regarding staff scheduled for the next day, and promptly escalate issues to the Carer Supervisor or Healthcare Administrator if necessary

**REQUIREMENTS**:
**Education and Qualifications**:

- Grade 10 - 12
- Acknowledged carer qualification (advantageous)

**Experience and Knowledge**:

- Proven experience within a management/supervisory capacity
- Experience working as a carer would be an advantage
- Possess strong and accurate computer and administrative skills to manage documentation and records efficiently
- Understand key principles in caring for the elderly, including:

- Core carer competency skills
- Dementia care
- Palliative care
- Rehabilitative care
- Manual Handling knowledge & skills
- Fall prevention knowledge & skills

**Skills and Attributes**:

- Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to motivate and inspire team members
- Have the ability to make good decisions and think objectively
- Ability to work collaboratively with the supervisor and team members
- Demonstrate the ability to multi-task effectively while contributing positively as a team player
- Ability to provide support to staff members
- Ability to work effectively with the elderly, providing care with empathy and compassion
- Be accepting of change within the role of caring, as the need arises.
- Be able to work within a team and independently.
- Posses good attention to detail
- Willingness to take on additional responsibilities
- Be flexible, hard working, honest and reliable
- Ability to follow instructions and protocols accurately

**Specific requirements**
- Clear health record
- Clear criminal record
- Clear credit record
- Contactable references

**Working Hours**: Normal working days are Mondays to Sundays, according to the duty roster. You will be required to work 16.25 shifts per month. Day shifts are from 07h00 until 19h00.

**Benefits**:

- Basic Salary from **R 12,000** Cost to Company per month (Your total salary could increase per month due to Sundays work, Public holidays, Quarterly bonuses and additional shifts worked)

Pay: Up to R12 000,00 per month