Hi, I’m
Clive G Chikafa
Care Assistant
Loughborough,Leicestershire
Summary
Throughout my life, I've been profoundly moved by the challenges individuals and families face when dealing with health issues. These experiences have instilled in me a deep sense of empathy and a profound understanding of the significance of offering comprehensive care and support. I am steadfast in my belief that every individual, irrespective of their circumstances, deserves to be treated with utmost respect, dignity, and compassion. My educational journey in healthcare has provided me with a strong foundation of knowledge and skills crucial for excelling as a health support worker. I've completed courses that have equipped me with a thorough understanding of the human body and prevalent medical conditions. Moreover, my training in communication and interpersonal skills has honed my ability to effectively connect with individuals from various backgrounds, fostering trust and facilitating open dialogue. Diligent health care team member with skills and training to safely support patients and assist clinical team member. Always ready to help with hygiene, mobility and cleaning needs. Works fast to stay ahead of continuous patient workload.
Overview
19
years of professional experience
Work history
Absolute Care Agency
Care Assistant (Domiciliary)
02.2024 - Current
Job overview
- Providing personal care and support to clients
- Assisting with daily living tasks such as bathing, dressing, and meal preparation
- Building and maintaining positive relationships with clients and their families
- Supporting clients with social activities and outings
- Completing daily care logs and updating client records
- Communicating effectively with other members of the care team and healthcare professionals
- Attending regular training sessions and supervisions
- Maintaining confidentiality and respecting clients' privacy and dignity.
Highbury Hospital NHS
Mental Health Care Assistant (BANK)
11.2023 - Current
Job overview
- Collaborating with other healthcare professionals to develop treatment plans for people with mental health conditions
- Implementing treatment plans and administering medication or therapeutic care to their patients
- Observing patients for behavioral changes
- Supervising and monitoring patients within the facility to ensure their safety
- Performing comprehensive risk assessments on patients
- Educating patients’ families about the patients’ mental health issues and educating them on how they can aid their treatment
- Documenting and maintaining patient health records
- Recommending patients that need more personalized treatment to Psychiatrists and Clinicians.
Prestige Staffing
Bank Support Worker
06.2023 - 11.2024
Job overview
- Assisting services users in different settings from nursing homes to rehabilitation centres
- Incident recording and reporting
- One on one observation to monitor changes and manage falls and reduce risks to patients with deteriorating health
- Enforcing health and safety measures to mitigate risks associated with cross contamination
- Promoting hygiene and general cleanliness
- Support service users with personal hygiene and oral health
- Providing services to all users with a person centred-approach
- General counselling
- Support in medication and prompting the individuals to take their medication on the right time, right dose and for the right patient
- Escorting individuals for doctors appointments and rehabilitation centres and supporting them with wellness and recovery training.
The Willows Care Home
Care Assistant
08.2023 - 03.2024
Job overview
- Companionship and socialising
- Supporting individuals with challenging behaviours
- Mobility using Hoist, Rotunda and Stand Aids
- Escorting individuals for leisure and hospital appointments
- Supporting individuals with physical fitness and exercising
- Managing the medication and administration
- Creative drawing and writing skills
- Preparing meals and supporting eating
- Washing, bathing, dressing and undressing
- Managing continence
- Light household cleaning
- Repositioning using slide sheets
- Going on outings and assisting with community-based activities
- Safe disposal of medical waste.
Rushcliffe Care Group
Healthcare Support Worker
05.2023 - 08.2023
Job overview
- To promote the dignity of Individuals we support at all times, taking into account their individual abilities, disabilities, sexual orientation, personality and characteristics, race, religion and social background
- To maintain the safety, comfort and privacy of Individuals we support as far as possible
- To give Individuals freedom of choice wherever possible including daily routines, bath times, clothes etc
- Promoting the independence of Individuals as far as possible, but to give assistance as required / necessary or identified
- Assisting with bowel and bladder recording
- Assisting with the care and support of Individual’s personal clothing and tidiness
- Participation in social activities with people we support with outings, parties, entertainment, games and hobbies and assist social activities leaders as directed
- Helping Individuals with nutrition and
- To provide psychological and emotional support to people we support by listening, talking and encouraging expression of emotion including 1 to 1 activity
- Incontinence management
- Food and fluid intake management including recording and reporting.
St John Ambulance, South Africa
Healthcare Worker- Volunteer
02.2022 - 03.2023
Job overview
- Monitored patient nutrition and fluid intake, ensuring required food and water provisions were supplied
- Provided practical support to service users on external trips, taking them shopping, to medical appointments and social events
- Helped patients with personal hygiene, offering support with showering and bed bathing those with limited physical strength
- Helped patients with various day-to-day activities, including support with meal preparation, cleaning, bathing and dressing
- Worked with compassion and kindness, building positive relationships with patients to enhance care experiences
- Helped with various household tasks including cleaning, laundry, ironing, shopping and meal preparation
- Assessed patient health, recording improvements and escalating concerns to senior healthcare staff as required.
College of Transfiguration South Africa
General Builder and Carpenter
01.2018 - 01.2022
Job overview
- Kept site areas clean and tidy, reducing risk and maintaining safety standards
- Effectively and efficiently carried out day-to-day construction duties across extensions and conversions
- Adhered to site health and safety standards, protecting self and colleagues from unnecessary risk
- Used strong communication and teamwork skills to drive project completion to deadlines
- Used extensive experience in bricklaying and brickwork to consistently produce accurate, quality results
- Ensured structural repairs were carried out with strict attention to quality and safety standards for faultless results
- Assembled scaffolding safely and efficiently, aiding secure, swift completion of required construction tasks
- Transported building materials safely and securely, promptly delivering to required locations
- Comfortably worked at height across various tasks, including roofing and scaffolding projects
- Collaborated effectively with construction teams to enhance operational efficiency
- Performed repair and maintenance tasks across domestic, commercial and industrial projects
- Restoration of wooden floors and wooden furniture.
Anesu Builders Pty
Builder and Painter
04.2008 - 12.2018
Job overview
- Accurately measured surface areas and organised required materials for wallpapering
- Used tools and equipment within safety guidelines
- Monitored workmanship of hired contractors, upholding high-quality painting and decorating results
- High pressure-washed, scraped and sanded surfaces, resulting in clean and smooth application of wall finishes
- Ensured work completed within budget by tracking expenses and material costs
- Expertly prepared, varnished and stained walls according to client desired results
- Utilised knowledge in hazardous materials to ensure correct and complaint handling, use and disposal
- Consistently received outstanding customer feedback by surpassing clients' painting and decorating expectations
- Maintained clean equipment, mixing area and work area in line with company best practices
- Prepared optimal decorating surface by filling cracks, holes and joints with cement
- Liaised with clients to determine and cater to desired aesthetics
- Inspected painted surfaces and rectified any flaws for high quality finishes.
Forest CreationsCape Town
Wood Cutting and Mobile Crane operation
01.2006 - 01.2008
Job overview
- Safely operated cranes and kept watch of the surrounding at all times, ensuring safety of on-site personnel
- Checked soil load-bearing capacities to understand limits on machinery and cargo weights
- Manned stationary and mobile cranes by raising and lowering jibs and booms to move containers, equipment or materials
- Achieved high productivity rates by maximising efficiency of crane operations in moving heavy items
- Drove low-boy and other tractor-trailer rigs to transport heavy construction equipment and materials to and from worksites
- Prepared reports to document activities
- Controlled placement of equipment and determined optimum approach to minimise destruction of property
- Helped with preparation of trucks and other equipment for different seasonal jobs
- Waterproofed and repaired concrete in existing structures to increase durability
- Prioritised tasks for each job after reading all project blueprints and documents to make most productive use of work hours.
Education
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
CSTF NVQ Level 2 & 3 (SOVC) Safeguarding Of Vulnerable Children
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
NVQ level 3 (POVA) Protection of Vulnerable Adults
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
NVQ Level 2 & 3 (SOVA) Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
COSHH
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
Conflict Resolution
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
Information Governance and Data Security
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
Equality, Diversity and Human Rights
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
Adult Resuscitation
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
Safeguarding Adults
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
Safeguarding Children
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
Adult Resuscitation
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
Manual Handling
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
Infection Control
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
Fire Safety
Crisis Prevention Institute
MAPA (RRN Certified)
Crisis Prevention Institute
Safety Intervention Modules
Crisis Prevention Institute
The CPI Crisis Development
Crisis Prevention Institute
Integrated Experience
Crisis Prevention Institute
Communication Skills
Crisis Prevention Institute
Responding to Defensive Behaviours
Crisis Prevention Institute
Safety Interventions
Crisis Prevention Institute
Disengagement Skills
Crisis Prevention Institute
Introduction to Restrictive Interventions
Crisis Prevention Institute
Decision Making
Crisis Prevention Institute
Holding Skills
NVQ Level 2 United Kingdom
Career progression training
Careskills
Safeguarding Children and Young People, Diabetes Awareness, Dysphagia, End of Life, Equality Diversity and Inclusion, Falls Awareness, information Governance, Mental Capacity Act and DOLS, Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training, Professional Boundaries, Risk Assessment, RIDDOR, Self Harm, Anxiety, Basic Life Support, Sepsis, Dignity in care, Communication, Health and Safety, Wellbeing in the workplace, Recording information
Grey Matter Learning
Covid -19, Duty of Candour, Fire warden, First Aid Skills, Handling information and Data Protection, Lone Working, Medication Part 1&2, Needlesticks and Sharps, Oral Health Care, Team Building Skills, Whistleblowing and Confidence, ADHD Awareness, Asbestos Awareness Conflict Management, Motor Neurone Disease, End of Life
NVQ in Social Care
Home Based Care level 2
NVQ in Social Care
First Aid level 1
NVQ in Social Care
Care Certificate NVQ level 2 and Level 3
College of Transfiguration, Grahamstown, South Africa
Diploma in Theology
National certificate in Commerce East London, South Africa
Economics, Statistics, Accounting, Business communication, Business management
Skills
- Time management
- Hygiene and health and safety
- Confidentiality
- Communication
- Administrative assistance
- Plumbing and drainage (gutters)
- Clear view fencing and Masonry walls
- Brick laying
- Electrical repairs and maintenance
- Heavy truck driver
- Painting
- Concrete floors and Carpet installation
- Wooden decking and Dry walls and fitting doors and Locks
- Floor epoxy preparation and application
- Carpentry and Joinery
- Experience with power tools
- High pressure Cleaning
- Health and Safety
- Patient observations
- Person-centred care plans
- First Aid
- Patient handling and positioning
- Personal care assistance
- Calm under pressure
- Basic life support
- Documentation development
- Pressure area care
- Clinical waste disposal
- Mobility support
- Personal care
- Infection prevention and control
- Dementia awareness
- Cultural awareness
- Patient relationship building
- Medication Administration
- Activities of Daily Living
- Patient transport
- Meal preparation
- End Of Life Care
- Medicine administration
- Disability Care
- Infection prevention
- Care plan management
- Community engagement
- Pain management
- Claims processing
- Organisational standards
- Healthcare operations
- Process Improvement
- Cannulation
- Interdepartmental collaboration
- Activities of Daily Living (ADL) assistance
- Stoma care
- Phlebotomy
- Specimen collection
- Social care
- Diagnostics
- Pain level assessment
- Care programme oversight
Custom
Available on request
Affiliations
- Gardening
- Playing Piano and Guitar
Timeline
Care Assistant (Domiciliary)
Absolute Care Agency
02.2024 - Current
Mental Health Care Assistant (BANK)
Highbury Hospital NHS
11.2023 - Current
Care Assistant
The Willows Care Home
08.2023 - 03.2024
Bank Support Worker
Prestige Staffing
06.2023 - 11.2024
Healthcare Support Worker
Rushcliffe Care Group
05.2023 - 08.2023
Healthcare Worker- Volunteer
St John Ambulance, South Africa
02.2022 - 03.2023
General Builder and Carpenter
College of Transfiguration South Africa
01.2018 - 01.2022
Builder and Painter
Anesu Builders Pty
04.2008 - 12.2018
Wood Cutting and Mobile Crane operation
Forest Creations
01.2006 - 01.2008
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
CSTF NVQ Level 2 & 3 (SOVC) Safeguarding Of Vulnerable Children
05.2023
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
NVQ level 3 (POVA) Protection of Vulnerable Adults
05.2023
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
NVQ Level 2 & 3 (SOVA) Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults
05.2023
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
COSHH
05.2023
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
Conflict Resolution
05.2023
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
Information Governance and Data Security
05.2023
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
Equality, Diversity and Human Rights
05.2023
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
Adult Resuscitation
05.2023
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
Safeguarding Adults
05.2023
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
Safeguarding Children
05.2023
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
Adult Resuscitation
05.2023
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
Manual Handling
05.2023
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
Infection Control
05.2023
Healthier Business UK Training Ltd
Fire Safety
05.2023
Crisis Prevention Institute
MAPA (RRN Certified)
05.2023
Crisis Prevention Institute
Safety Intervention Modules
05.2023
Crisis Prevention Institute
The CPI Crisis Development
05.2023
Crisis Prevention Institute
Integrated Experience
05.2023
Crisis Prevention Institute
Communication Skills
05.2023
Crisis Prevention Institute
Responding to Defensive Behaviours
05.2023
Crisis Prevention Institute
Safety Interventions
05.2023
Crisis Prevention Institute
Disengagement Skills
05.2023
Crisis Prevention Institute
Introduction to Restrictive Interventions
05.2023
Crisis Prevention Institute
Decision Making
05.2023
Crisis Prevention Institute
Holding Skills
05.2023
NVQ Level 2 United Kingdom
Career progression training
Careskills
Safeguarding Children and Young People, Diabetes Awareness, Dysphagia, End of Life, Equality Diversity and Inclusion, Falls Awareness, information Governance, Mental Capacity Act and DOLS, Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training, Professional Boundaries, Risk Assessment, RIDDOR, Self Harm, Anxiety, Basic Life Support, Sepsis, Dignity in care, Communication, Health and Safety, Wellbeing in the workplace, Recording information
05.2023
Grey Matter Learning
Covid -19, Duty of Candour, Fire warden, First Aid Skills, Handling information and Data Protection, Lone Working, Medication Part 1&2, Needlesticks and Sharps, Oral Health Care, Team Building Skills, Whistleblowing and Confidence, ADHD Awareness, Asbestos Awareness Conflict Management, Motor Neurone Disease, End of Life
NVQ in Social Care
Home Based Care level 2
05.2022
NVQ in Social Care
First Aid level 1
05.2023
NVQ in Social Care
Care Certificate NVQ level 2 and Level 3
05.2023
College of Transfiguration, Grahamstown, South Africa
Diploma in Theology
National certificate in Commerce East London, South Africa
Economics, Statistics, Accounting, Business communication, Business management
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