Health Attendant

Duties and Responsibilities

Clinical Care

• Make frequent rounds and attend to residents’ needs. Ensure the safety, comfort and well-being of the residents and report residents’ needs to the nurse
• Assist in ensuring the comfort and good personal hygiene of the residents under his/ her care, and keeping them clean, e.g. oral toilet, showering and grooming, trimming of nails, changing of diapers, changing of clothes and bed sheets
• Assist in serving meals and oral feeding of resident without swallowing disorders
• Assist nursing care staff in the transfer and positioning of non-ambulant residents
• Assist and participate in residents’ recreational, occupational, social and therapy programmes
• Assist nurses to ensure residents take their medicines
• Accompany residents to specialist outpatient clinic for follow-up appointments and outing trips
• Assist in last offices

Quality

• Maintain a safe and clean environment, e.g. cleaning and mopping of spillage or discharges, cleaning of residents’ bed and bedside locker, making of beds
• Participate in staff development programmes
• Is responsible to be familiar with the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and all emergency protocols

Administration

• Maintain accurate documentation of care rendered and confidentiality of residents’ information

Job Requirements:

• Primary/ Secondary education