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Kerry Sadler
Melbourne,VIC
Work Preference
Summary
Dedicated Personal Care Assistant with Bolton Clarke, skilled in compassionate caregiving and medication administration. Enhanced client well-being through emotional support and personalized care, fostering independence and dignity. Recognized for building strong relationships and adapting to diverse needs, ensuring a safe and nurturing environment for all clients.
Work History
Personal Care Assistant
Bolton Clarke
- Assisted clients with daily living activities, promoting independence and dignity.
- Supported personal hygiene routines, ensuring comfort and well-being for clients.
- Maintained a clean and safe environment to enhance client health and safety.
- Documented client progress and care notes accurately for effective communication.
- Adapted to diverse client needs, demonstrating flexibility in care approaches.
- Assisted clients with daily living needs to maintain self-esteem and general wellness.
- Provided companionship and emotional support, enhancing overall quality of life for clients.
- Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
- Assisted with transferring and positioning clients, ensuring proper body mechanics to reduce the risk of injury for both parties.
- Built strong relationships with clients to deliver emotional support and companionship.
- Improved client comfort by providing exceptional personal care and maintaining a clean, safe environment.
- Turned and positioned bedbound patients to prevent bedsores and maintain comfort levels.
- Engaged patients in meaningful conversation, socialization, and activity while providing personal care assistance.
- Assisted with dressing guidance, grooming, meal preparation, and medication reminders.
- Adapted quickly to new client situations, building rapport through active listening skills and an empathetic approach towards individual needs.
- Enhanced client well-being by assisting with daily activities such as bathing, dressing, and grooming.
- Recognized and reported abnormalities or changes in patients' health status to case manager.
- Maintained current knowledge of best practices in personal care through ongoing professional development opportunities.
- Supported clients'' mental health by actively listening to concerns and offering compassionate companionship during challenging times.
- Ensured timely medication administration, managing accurate records of dosages and schedules for multiple clients.
- Remained alert to problems or health issues of clients and competently responded.
- Assisted patients with self-administered medications.
- Prevented injuries through diligent observation of the environment and prompt intervention when needed during mobility assistance tasks.
- Monitored vital signs regularly, promptly reporting any abnormal findings to medical professionals for further evaluation.
- Collaborated with healthcare professionals to develop individualized care plans addressing each client''s specific needs.
- Recorded temperature, blood pressure, pulse, or respiration rate as directed by medical or nursing staff.
- Conferred with supervisor to discuss patient condition and medical care.
- Monitored client vital signs, administered medications, and tracked behaviors to keep healthcare supervisor well-informed.
- Supported daily hygiene needs of patients by assisting with bathing, dressing, dental care and personal grooming.
- Assisted patients with bathing, grooming, dressing, and oral hygiene care both in private residences and facilities.
- Provided compassionate and patient-focused care to cultivate well-being.
- Guided patients to restroom to support bladder and bowel relief requirements.
Education
High School Diploma -
Flemington High School
Melbourne, VICSkills
- Emotional support
- Personal hygiene assistance
- Housekeeping tasks
- Compassionate caregiving
- Dressing assistance
- Compassionate patient care
- Behavior management
- Behavior redirection
- Light housekeeping
- Compassionate care
- Direct patient care
- Medication administration
- Patient management
- Feeding support
- Fall prevention
- Activities of daily living support
- Toileting assistance
- Companionship
- Patient awareness
- Personal hygiene
- Adaptive equipment use
- Adaptable under pressure
- Observational skills
- Patient lifting techniques
- Dementia care
- Time management
- Elderly care
- Verbal and written communication skills
- Daily living assistance
- Problem-solving
- Multitasking and organization
- Mobility assistance
- Dependable and responsible
- Compassionate communication
- Patient care
- Incident reporting
- PPE usage
- Relationship building
- Team collaboration
- Respectful and compassionate
- ADL assistance
- COVID-19 safety policies
- Documentation
- Strong ethics
- End-of-life care
- Client documentation
- Special needs care
- Basic housekeeping
- Progress documentation
- Patient companionship
Timeline
Personal Care Assistant
Bolton Clarke
High School Diploma -
Flemington High School