Heather Thelma Mazivisa
Southampton
Summary
Patient and compassionate individual, with years of solid caregiving experience, gathered within the UK and in Africa. Highly skilled in determining service users' specific personalities and correlating special needs care. Exposed to varied home environments and can offer support to patients with diverse conditions. Offers superior skills in patient needs assessment and healthcare team collaboration. Passionate multi-tasker dedicated to supporting team objectives to facilitate top-quality care. Well-versed in monitoring and noting vital signs, cleaning and sanitizing patient areas, and assisting with personal hygiene tasks such as toileting and grooming. Skilled at monitoring ongoing conditions with knowledge of documentation practices. Compassionate nature provides families with peace of mind while offering ambulation and personal assistance to meet diverse service users' needs.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Care Assistant Moving and Handling Trainer
Tru Caring
02.2024 - Current
- Maintained clean and organized living spaces for patients, ensuring a comfortable and sanitary environment conducive to healing.
- Enhanced patient recovery by assisting with daily activities such as bathing, dressing, and grooming.
- Assisted patients with mobility, transferring them safely between beds, chairs, and wheelchairs as needed.
- Improved patient comfort by providing compassionate and attentive care, addressing individual needs and preferences.
- Contributed to a positive patient experience by engaging in conversation and recreational activities, fostering a sense of companionship.
Care Assistant
Bridge-It Options
06.2023 - 01.2024
- Providing practical support for individuals and their families, such as helping with household tasks, personal care and paperwork
- Supporting and monitoring their healthcare needs, including administering medication and temperature checks
- Supporting them to pursue hobbies and interests
- Providing support to individuals to ensure they can reach their optimum independence and provide support in their everyday lives
- Understanding their communication needs and adapting your communication to each individual, e.g
- Sounds, tones, body language
- Monitoring individual emotional and general wellbeing daily and ensure their protection from abuse, reporting any concerns to senior managers
Health Care Assistant
Chitungwiza Central Hospital
01.2022 - 05.2023
- Supporting service users with activities of daily living within the hospital setting, to ensure that they are provided with a higher quality of life
- Assisting the service users with their day-to-day activities e.g., playing games, going for walks
- Adhering to care plans and record completed tasks after every shift to ensure their needs were met a high standard and to allow any incidents to be reported
- Disinfecting patient surroundings and clinic premises
- Handling and disposing of PPE materials used by patients
- Assisting patient family members in following isolation protocols
- Completing accurately all relevant documentation e.g
- Food and fluid charts, turning charts, property forms, life stories etc
- Helping service users with mobility problems and other physical disabilities
- Attend to service users who are confined to bed and help lift and turn these service users using the equipment outlined in their care plan as necessary for their care and comfort
Care Support Worker (Parttime work)
Home Care
01.2019 - 01.2022
- Deliver support for clients with mobility issues
- Guarantee user safety by monitoring wellbeing and promptly reporting concerns
- Prevent accidents and falls by ensuring cleanliness and tidiness of service user homes
- Feed clients with severe limitations and assisted more mobile clients with self-feeding
- Use manual handling techniques and lifting aids to position clients in safe, comfortable postures
- Administer medication and keep comprehensive records
- Involve clients in decision-making to promote independence
- Toileting and all aspects of personal hygiene
- Continence management
- Hoisting Service Users according to what is needed at that time eg hoisting from bed to commode/chair or vice versa
- Ensure all information regarding service users is kept in strictest confidence and documented accurately on daily report sheets
Education
No Degree - Moving And Handling
Hampshire County Council
Winchester01-2024
Skills
- Mental health Support
- Incident and accident reporting
- Learning disability support
- Meal planning and preparation
- First Aid and Safety
- Safe patient handling techniques
- Administering Medication
- Care Plan Management and assessment
- Direct Patient Care
- Dementia & Alzheimer's support
- Clinical waste disposal
- Stroke recovery support
- Complex Behavior
- Observing responses
- Personal hygiene maintenance
- Companionship and emotional support
- Flexible and adaptable to change
- Problem solving
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Effective Communicator
- Attention to detail
- Ability to operate care-related equipment
- Ability to pay close attention to detail
- Sensitivity to the needs of others
- Trustworthiness
- Integrity
- Extended ability to provide quality outpatient care
- Sound knowledge of regulations and standards of public health, safety, and sanitation
- Ability to follow care plans
- Ability to recognize anomalies in general conditions
- Feeding assistance
- Mobility assistance
- Basic housekeeping
- Respectful and compassionate
- Verbal and written communication skills
- Special needs
- Client confidentiality
Certification
- Redcross - Advanced First Aid, 2022
- Redcross - Community Based Healthcare, 2022
- GCE A Levels Certificate, 2020
- healthcare courses
- Moving and handling train the trainer
Additionalinformation
Seeking Visa Sponsorship Within the UK, Fully Vaccinated, Proven English Proficiency, No Criminal Record - Clean DBS, Full UK Drivers licence
Timeline
Care Assistant Moving and Handling Trainer
Tru Caring
02.2024 - Current
Care Assistant
Bridge-It Options
06.2023 - 01.2024
Health Care Assistant
Chitungwiza Central Hospital
01.2022 - 05.2023
Care Support Worker (Parttime work)
Home Care
01.2019 - 01.2022
No Degree - Moving And Handling
Hampshire County Council
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