Care Home Personal Caregiver

CURRICULUM VITAE

Names - Jennifer Arum

Date of Birth: - 01 February 1973

Nationality - Ugandan

Address : - Seeta – Kampala - Uganda

Contact - +256**********

Email - ************@*****.***

Skills and Key Core Competencies

Proven experience as a caregiver

Experience working with the elderly, the elderly with dementia, people with learning disabilities and with people with mental health

Respectful and compassionate with ability to treat clients professionally

Knowledge of housekeeping activities and cooking with attention to dietary constraints

Good time management skills

Excellent interpersonal, team building and organisational skills

Excellent writing and communication skills to work effectively with residents, peers, managers and others

Excellent multitasking skills. Ability to work in a team oriented environment

Willingness to adhere to health and safety standards

Demostrated strong commitment, dependable, responsible, trustworthy, self motivated, self directed and confidence to take personal initiative

Good organisational and co-ordination abilities to produce results with minimum supervision and ability to deliver high quality work on schedule

Educational and Professional Qualifications

Diploma in Accountancy - Nkonkonjeru Institute of Management and Tecgnology

Advanced Certificate of Education - Caltec Academy Makerere - Uganda

Ordinary Certificate of Edeucation - St. Kalemba S.S.S Kayunga - Uganda

Training in Care

Everycare Nursing Agency, 11 Church Street Reading, Berkshire, RG1 2SB, UK- in-house training without Certificates - Between 6th and 20th of March 2008

Introduction to basic care

Healthy and Safety Policy

Moving and Handling of People

Infection Control Awareness

Fire Safety Awareness

Principles of First Aid

Basic Life Support

Caring for the Elderly and the Sick

Food Hygiene

Refresher Course in Moving and Postioning - 27th September 2012

Training attented in Primetime Recruitment, 7-11 Station Road, Reading, RG1 1LG, UK - with Certificates (Refresher Courses). - August 2010 and May 2012

Emergency First Aid ( Basic Life Support -BLS)

Moving and Handling of People

Healthy and Safety ( Including Fire Safety)

Infection Control

Safety of Vulnerable Adults (SOVA)

Food and Hygiene

Concept Care Practise, 14a Cross St. Reading, RG1 1SN, UK

14th, 24th ans 27th July 2012

Fire Drills and Evacuation in Care Home

Food hygiene in the Care Home

Health and Safety in the Care Home

Greenslade Support Solutions, Windsor Square, Silver St., Reading, RG1 2TH, UK

Foundation Food Safety - In house e-learning course with certificate - A score of 100% was achieved in the test of the following modules:-

6/07/2011 to 8/7/2011

Food Hygiene

Bacteria

Food poisoining and food borne disease

The prevention of food poisoining

Contamination hazzards

Purchase to service

Food spoilage

Personal Hygiene

Construction and design of food premises

Equipment of handling food

Pest recognition and control

HACCP (Hazzard Analysis Critical Control Point)

The Law relating to food and safety

Greenslade Support Solutions, Windsor Square, Silver St., Reading, RG1 2TH, UK

Foundation Health and Safety - completed an e-learning course. A score of 100% was achieved in the test at the end of the folllowing modules:-

10/7/2011 to 13/7/2011

Risk assessment

Accident and ill health

Hazardous substances

Workplace health, safety and welfare

Fire prevention

First Aid

Ocuppational health

Electricity

Ergonomics

Manualh handling

Health and safety Law

Equipment safety

Training attented in ABC Medical Service - Reading, University of Reading Building L30, London Road, Reading, RG1 5AQ, UK - with Certificates - Between 2nd and 5th June 2008

First Aid for Appointed Persons

Infection Control

Moving and Handling of People

Protectin of Vulnerale Adults (POVA)

Health and Safety in the Workplace

Experience / Duties in Care

Primetime Recruitment Ltd – Agency 7-11 Station Rd, Reading, RG1 1LG

Period March 2008 to October 2009, June 2010 to June 2013

Position: Support Worker

Responsibilities / Duties

Assisting in providing all aspects of basic care for service users in the care homes to fulfill basic activities of daily living

Assisting clients with personal care and hygiene:- bathing, grooming, dressing, toileting and bed making. Assisting in the use of commodes, bed pans and urinals. Emptying catheters and attaching night bags

Assisting in mobility using the zimmer frames, wheel chairs, rotundas, hoists and slide sheets

Engaging with the residents in a manner that promotes their independence and maintain their dignity and contributing to a positive living environment

Assist clients take prescribed medication at a given time

Meal preparations with assistance from the clients (when they are able)

Participating with the service users in activities thus being pleasant and supportive giving companionship and emotional support

Going out with the clients to day centres for activities and for shopping

Perform light house keeping duties that clients can’t complete on their own like – cleaning the house, doing laundry and ironing

Report any unusual incidents and concerns about residents to immediate supervisor

Recording in the service user’s care plans at the end of each shift about the wellbeing of the service user and provide relavant observations made during the shift

Concept Care Practice - Agency – March 2011 to June 2013

Greenslade Support Solutions - Agency - April 2011 to May 2013

Position : Support Worker

Responsibilities / Duties

Assisting in providing all aspects of basic care for service users in the care homes to fulfill basic activities of daily living

Assisting clients with personal care and hygiene:- bathing, grooming, dressing, toileting and bed making. Assisting in the use of commodes, bed pans and urinals. Emptying catheters and attaching night bags

Assisting in mobility using the zimmer frames, wheel chairs, rotundas, hoists and slide sheets

Engaging with the residents in a manner that promotes their independence and maintain their dignity and contributing to a positive living environment

Assist clients take prescribed medication at a given time

Meal preparations with assistance from the clients (when they are able)

Participating with the service users in activities thus being pleasant and supportive giving companionship and emotional support

Going out with the clients to day centres for activities and for shopping

Perform light house keeping duties that clients can’t complete on their own like – cleaning the house, doing laundry and ironing

Report any unusual incidents and concerns about residents to immediate supervisor

Recording in the service user’s care plans at the end of each shift about the wellbeing of the service user and provide relavant observations made during the shift

Gained a lot of experience working with people with learning disabilities and who also had challenging behaviours and as a patient person with compassion it taught me to be more patient, tolerant and empathetic

Gained experience to care for service users with challenging behaviours who could do self-injury or harm to themselves like head-banging, scratching, pulling, eye poking, grinding teeth and who had eating disorders and eating of non-foodstuffs

Gained also experience to handle service users with aggressive behaviours rowards others like biting, hitting, pinching, grabbing, hair pulling, throwing objects, verbal abuse, screaming and spitting.

I did also gain experience working with service users who have stereotyped behaviour like repetitive movements, rocking, repetitive speech and repetitive manipulation of objects

I learnt how to nanamge service users who have non-person directed behaviours like damage to property, inapproppriate sexualised behaviour, destruction of clothing, incontinence, temper tantrums and lack of awareness of danger

Everycare Nursing Agency, Reading, UK

Period March 2008 to October 2009 and February 2011 to May 2013

Position : Health care Assistant

Responsibilities / Duties

Assisting in providing all aspects of basic care to patients and residents to help fullfil all basic activities of daily living

Caring for the elderly in residential homes and patients in hospitals with and without dementia and Alzheimer

Assisting clients with personal care and hygiene:- bathing, grooming, dressing, toileting and bed making. Assisting in the use of commodes, bed pans and urinals. Emptying catheters and attaching night bags

Assisting in mobility using the zimmer frames, wheel chairs, rotundas, hoists and slide sheets

Engaging with the residents in a manner that promotes their independence and maintain their dignity and contributing to a positive living environment

Bed cleaning and disinfecting of beds especially in hospitals

Recording of observations and sugar levels (Bms) of patiens especially in the hospitals as requested and checking blood pressure of patients and making records

Meal preparations in some residential homes

Perform light house keeping duties like – cleaning the house, doing laundry and ironing especially in residential homes

Recording in the resitents’s care plans at the end of each shift about the wellbeing of the resident and provide relavant observations made during the shift

Working on the bus as a bus assistant picking clients with learning disabilities and the elderly people from their homes and taking them to the day centres and collecting them from the day centres after the day’s activities and taking them back to their homes

Homes I worked as a Support Worker

Ravenswood Crowthorne, Berkishire, UK

Heffeman House, Mencap home in Newbury, Berkshire, UK

Dimensions homes in Thatcham and Burghfield Common, Berkshire, UK

Hospitals I worked as a Healthcare Assistant in Reading, Berkshire, UK

Royal Berkshire Hospital

Prospect Park Hospital

The Berkshire Independent Hospital

West Berkshire Community Hospital-Thatcham, Newbury

Wokingham Community Hospital

Duchess of Kent

Dnedin Hospital

Residential / Nursing Homes I worked as a Healthcare Assistant in Reading, Berkshire, UK

Edward Hughes

Charles Clore Court

Tanfield Centre

Arthur Clark

The Old Vicarage – Mousfold

Tree Lodge

Micro Enterprise Development Network (MED-NET) An Affiliate of World Vision- Uganda

Period: October 2006 to December 2007

Position: Credit Officer

Responsibilities / Duties

Marketing the financial services of the organisation

Mobilizing and training clients about the loans we offers

Appaise the clients by visiting their businesses and assess them through a balance sheet and acash flow

When the file was approved then a disbursement of the loan was made

After the grace period I would carry out monitoring by checking on the cliient’s businesses and also send reminders about the payment

Micro Enterprise Development Network (MED-NET) An Affiliate of World Vision- Uganda

Period: January 2004 to September 2006

Position: Data Entry Operator

Responsibilities / Duties

Capture/input operational and financial data in the organisational loan tracking system ( Financial Solutions)

Maintain both manual and automated operational records thus ensure proper filing and proper record keeping of information

Data capture in Banking registers using the Excel Worksheets

Updating credit officer’s individual reports for daily monitoring

Transfer of customer savings in case of default to clear outstanding loans after authorization

Prepare deposit vouchers for data capture in SUN System Accounting Package

Prepare of Branch statistical report, group status and operational updates

Micro Enterprise Development Network (MED-NET) An Affiliate of World Vision- Uganda

Period: January 1998 to December 2003

Position: Accounts Assistant / Cashier

Responsibilities / Duties

Making all petty cash and cheque payments

Making money transfers and preparing bank drafts

Writing and posting vouchers in the SUN System Accounting Package

Make monthly bank reconciliation statements

Preparing travel advances for stuff and checking accountabilities of stuff expenses before approval

Preparing staff transport and lunch refunds at every end of month

Workshops / Training Attended – Uganda

Marketing Customer Care and Credit Management

Finance Solutions ( Loan Tracking System)

SUN Systems Accounting Package

Marketing Training and Custome Care

World Vision Financial Accounting System

Likes / Hobbies

Making Friends

Listening to gospel music

Singing

Home Making / decorating

Watching movies and going to cinema

Outing

Exercsing and talkin long walks

Playing board games like scrabble and checkers

References

Patrick Murphy

Everycare Nursing Agency

11 Church Street

Reading, Berkshire

RG1 2SB

Telephone : 011********

Fax : 011********

Email Address : *******@*********.**.**

Sonia Cook

Primetime Recruitment Ltd

7-11 Station Road, Reading

RG1 1LG

Telephone : 011********

Fax : 011********

Email Address : ****@*********.**.**

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