Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
industry experience
Skills and competence
languages
volunteering
references
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ANA CHAVES

Richmond,Victoria

Summary

Dedicated Personal Care Assistant skilled over two years experience in supervising and assisting clients with daily activities living to promote independence. Caring and compassionate with proven history of positive client feedback.

My mission is to ensure those under my care experience a journey of happiness and dignity.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Personal Care Worker

Regis - Aged Care
12.2021 - Current
  • Maintain residents activities of daily living in following areas:
  • Improved client's overall well-being by assisting with personal hygiene tasks, such as bathing and grooming.
  • Continence management
  • Recorded temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration rate as directed by Registered Nurse
  • Turned and positioned bedbound patients to prevent bedsores and maintain comfort levels
  • Communicates with all residents effectively including maintenance and fitting of hearing aids and glasses as required
  • Assisting those residents/clients with challenging behaviors, by participation in development and implementation of individually designed management plan
  • Supported clients mental health by actively listening to concerns and offering compassionate companionship during challenging times
  • Residents mobility, by assisting with walking, use of wheelchairs and other aids and transfers
  • Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives
  • Maximizes residents physical function by assisting with rehabilitative treatment such as physiotherapy exercises
  • Assists nursing staff by observing and reporting promptly any changes in condition or well being of residents
  • Ensure residents privacy, dignity and respect are maintained at all times
  • Ensure that no residents experiences isolation and loneliness unless determined by choice
  • Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives
  • Assists individual residents to attend recreational preferences

Documentation:

  • Reporting in progress notes and providing relevant information to assist RN to carry out holistic assessment and care planning
  • Complete tick sheets, fill out continence assessment flow charts, record behavior activity and resident participation in activity programs
  • Complete incident reports that witness to
  • Diet sheets, attendance records
  • Review resident care plans with sign off by Registered Nurse

Housekeeping - Commercial

QuayClean Cleaning Partners
01.2019 - 11.2021

Since 2019 I have also been working in housekeeping area with commercial and domestic cleaning performing the following activities:

  • Ensuring health and Safety guidelines followed at all times
  • Using chemicals and other cleaning equipment in proper, safe and responsible manner.
  • Assisted with day-to-day operations, working efficiently and productively with all team members.
  • Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in team environment.
  • Adaptable and proficient in learning new concepts quickly and efficiently.

Personal Care Assistant

Howthorn's Victoria Gardens -DSS Organisation
03.2021 - 06.2021

I have been working as support worker under Home Care Package service providers and under self-managed packages performing following duties:

  • Using appropriate communication strategies
  • Providing activities for maintenance of dignity, skills and health
  • Performed following hazardous manual handling
  • Improved client comfort by providing exceptional personal care and maintaining clean and safe environment
  • Identify sources of risk to personal safety, assess level of risk and follow risk minimization procedures.

Education

CHC43015 Certificate IV in Ageing Support -

Australian Learning Group
Melbourne, VIC
01.2021

CHC33015 Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing) -

Australian Learning Group
Melbourne, VIC
01.2020

Bachelor in Psychology -

UNIP
Brazil
01.2014

Skills

  • Emotional Support
  • Supportive Personality
  • Verbal and written communication skills
  • CPR Certified
  • End of life care
  • PPE Usage
  • Medication Management

industry experience

  • Carer Seniors
  • Carer Children
  • Clinical
  • Housekeeping
  • Finance


Skills and competence

  • Mature, kind, and compassionate
  • Ability to use initiative and work under pressure
  • Ability to work co-operatively as part of the care team
  • Reliable and punctual
  • Positive, respectful and proactive approach to working collaboratively within a team
  • Excellent customer service skills
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Ability to keep privacy and confidentiality of those I care for
  • Driver's license
  • Police Criminal History Check
  • COVID-19 trained
  • COVID 19 - Infection Control Training
  • COVID 19 - Aged Care - Laundry
  • COVID 19 - Aged Care - Personal Safety
  • COVID 19 - Aged Care - Outbreak Management Procedures
  • First Aid Certificate
  • Digital Skills

languages

  • Portuguese-Native
  • English
  • Spanish

volunteering

  • MiCare Café Bazaar (Australia), Volunteering, 2019
  • ABRISA - Brazilian Association, Volunteering, Senior Support (My Age)

references

Upon Request

Timeline

Personal Care Worker

Regis - Aged Care
12.2021 - Current

Personal Care Assistant

Howthorn's Victoria Gardens -DSS Organisation
03.2021 - 06.2021

Housekeeping - Commercial

QuayClean Cleaning Partners
01.2019 - 11.2021

CHC43015 Certificate IV in Ageing Support -

Australian Learning Group

CHC33015 Certificate III in Individual Support (Ageing) -

Australian Learning Group

Bachelor in Psychology -

UNIP
ANA CHAVES