Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Affiliations
Languages
Current
Personal Information
References
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Takela Qaranivalu

Takela Qaranivalu

Geelong,VIC

Summary

Hardworking Disability Support Worker dedicated to comprehensive, holistic, compassionate, and individualized patient care. Manages personal care, daily client appointments, and medication and maintains tidy environments. Also manage catheter care, bowel care with stoma, PEG feeding and care, and manual handling.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

Disability Support Worker

Care choice
2021.04 - Current

This position is responsible for personal care, medication administration, manual handling, catheter care, bowel care, emergency epilepsy care, diet restrictions of clients, and community access with clients. Clients range from nonverbal to verbal with multiple sclerosis(1) Huntington's disease (1), Spina bifida (1), Rett's syndrome (1), epilepsy (1), autism, dementia, and paraplegia secondary to spinal cord injury.

  • Provided assistance in daily living activities by dressing, grooming, bathing, and toileting patients.

Domestic Worker

Family
2019.12 - 2021.04

My teenage boys and I migrated from Fiji to join my husband, who had been living in Australia since 2013. We came to Geelong in December 2019, and COVID-19 started in March 2020. Therefore i had a hard time looking for work for about 2 years.

Health Care Assistant

Epworth Clinic
2016.08 - 2019.12

I worked as a full-time health care worker at a clinic in Suva, Fiji.

Student

University Of New South Wales
2015.01 - 2016.07

Masters International Public Health and Health Management.

Health Care Assistant

Epworth Clinic
2012.05 - 2015.01

Health Care Assistant

Republic Of Nauru Hospital
2010.01 - 2012.04

Health Care Assistant

Ministry Of Health Fiji
2002.01 - 2010.12

Education

High School Diploma -

Gordon Institute of TAFE
Geelong, VIC
07.2025

Master of Science - Public Health

University of New South Wales
Sydney, NSW
07.2016

GED -

Fiji National University
Suva Fiji
12.2009

GED -

WHO Jakarta
Jakarta Indonesia
08.2006

Bachelor of Science - Medicine (Pre-Medicine)

Fiji National University
Suva Fiji
12.2001

Bachelor of Science - Medicine

Ministry of Health
Suva Fiji
12.2002

Skills

  • Disability Support Worker
  • Healthcare worker - Fiji
  • Public Health officer
  • Academic

Affiliations

  • Fiji Medical and Dental Council - Part 1 - 2002
  • Fiji Medical and Dental Council - Part 2 - 2003
  • Fiji Medical Association (FMA) - affiliated member since 2003
  • Fiji College of General Practitioners (FCGP)

Languages

Fluent in the English and Fijian languages
All studies carried out in English

Current

Victoria, Victoria, done Fiji, done Australia, Australia

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 03/19/77
  • Gender: Female
  • Marital Status: Married

References

  • Dr. Odille Chang - Fiji National university
  • Dr. Lusiana Tuilada - Fiji National University

Timeline

Disability Support Worker

Care choice
2021.04 - Current

Domestic Worker

Family
2019.12 - 2021.04

Health Care Assistant

Epworth Clinic
2016.08 - 2019.12

Student

University Of New South Wales
2015.01 - 2016.07

Health Care Assistant

Epworth Clinic
2012.05 - 2015.01

Health Care Assistant

Republic Of Nauru Hospital
2010.01 - 2012.04

Health Care Assistant

Ministry Of Health Fiji
2002.01 - 2010.12

High School Diploma -

Gordon Institute of TAFE

Master of Science - Public Health

University of New South Wales

GED -

Fiji National University

GED -

WHO Jakarta

Bachelor of Science - Medicine (Pre-Medicine)

Fiji National University

Bachelor of Science - Medicine

Ministry of Health
Takela Qaranivalu