Gideon Langat
Brown Plains,Australia
Summary
Dedicated support worker with exceptional communication skills and a strong passion for delivering personalized care. Demonstrates a multiskilled approach to enhancing client dignity, comfort, and independence while maintaining a compassionate demeanor. Proven ability to assess individual needs, develop tailored intervention plans, and effectively connect clients with community resources to improve overall well-being. Committed to advocating for clients
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Support Worker
All care
Sydney, NSW
10.2024 - 01.2025
- Encouraged and motivated clients to develop new coping mechanisms and techniques to drive behavior modification.
- Participated in professional development and training sessions to enhance care quality and support provided.
- Practiced cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational enhancement and structural family therapy in individual and group settings.
- Provided emotional support and companionship to enhance clients' well-being.
- Acted as role model for clients by exhibiting positive behaviors.
- Implemented behavior management plans for clients with challenging behaviors.
- Managed challenging behaviour from clients in a calm manner by utilising de-escalation techniques.
- Accompanied clients to medical appointments and assisted them with their daily needs.
- Evaluated and addressed individual client needs and concerns.
- Monitored client wellbeing and reported any changes or concerns to relevant staff members.
- Reported any incidents or accidents in accordance with company policy and procedure.
Support Worker
07.2023 - 09.2024
- Providing personal hygiene care (oral care, shower and wash)
- Assisting with residents mobility and safe manual handling
- Assisting residents to dress
- Assisting residents with meals and drinks
- Encouraging oral intake when necessary
- Assisting residents with daily activities
- Bed making, providing assist to keep residents' room tidy
- Assisting residents with toileting and pad changes
- Charting and documentation
- Providing emotional support, reassurance and redirection to the residents
- Following RNs instructions to promote residents' care and wellbeing
- Following infection control procedures and policies
- Identifying and responding to the symptoms of COVID- 19
- Mandatory reporting and incident report procedures
Support Worker
Brian Kings Garden
06.2023 - 06.2024
- Assisting care recipient with meals, hygiene needs including bathing, dental hygiene, dressing, grooming and personal care
- Household support, ensuring the clients' residential areas are clean and well maintained
- Monitoring the client's physical and mental health by doing routine checks, such as administering prescriptions, measuring blood pressure, and assisting with personal cleanliness
- Assisting people in carrying out essential daily tasks such as dressing, bathing, grooming, toothbrushing, medicine administration, restroom use, etc
- Providing a diverse range of social activities such as arts & crafts, games, and outings for clients who can't go outside
- Giving emotional and social support
- Personal hygiene, grooming, manicuring, and oral hygiene
- Continence management
- Communicating with all residents effectively including the maintenance and the fitting of hearing aids and glasses as required
- Assisting residents'/clients with challenging behaviors, by participation in the development and implementation of an individually designed management plan
- Assisting residence with walking, use of wheelchairs and other aids and transfers
- Supporting and assists residents with food and fluids as required
- Ensuring the residents privacy, dignity and respect are always maintained
- Perform other duties within scope of preparation and as directed
- Assists the nursing staff with treatments as specified
Education
Certificate 3 - Ageing / disability
Certificate 3 in Individual Support
02-2024
Skills
- Highly competent and enthusiastic support worker
- Outgoing personality
- Great communication skills
- Passion for caring for others
- Multiskilled and self-motivated
- Strong commitment to providing quality care
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Understanding of professional boundaries, privacy, and confidentiality issues
- Empathy with service users
- Respectful towards clients
- Good people skills
- Understanding of behavioral concerns for service users
- Ability to prioritize work
- Time management skills
- Embracing change as a way of working
- High care needs
- Daily living support
- Housekeeping and laundry
- Disability care
- Mobility support
- Critical thinking
- Risk management
- Emotional support
- Housekeeping tasks
- Health and safety awareness
- Treatment plans
- Meal preparation
- Attention to detail
- Documentation
- Transportation assistance
- Behavioral support
- Cleaning and sanitizing
- Meal planning and preparation
- First aid and CPR
- Skill building
- Daily living assistance
- Medication administration
- Documentation and reporting
Certification
- Current first aid and CPR certificate
- Current police clearance
- Infection control
- Hand hygiene
- COVID infection control
- NDIS worker modules
- Certificate 3 in individual support (Ageing / disability)
- Australian Drivers license
References
- Rodgers Korir, korirrodgers1@gmail.com, 0416578035, Supervisor
- Derrick Kipchumba, derekkipchumba5@gmail.com, 0439268051, Team Leader
Languages
English
Professional
Timeline
Support Worker
All care
10.2024 - 01.2025
Support Worker
07.2023 - 09.2024
Support Worker
Brian Kings Garden
06.2023 - 06.2024
Certificate 3 - Ageing / disability
Certificate 3 in Individual Support