Jackline Kalema

• Assisting residents with daily needs, including bathing, washing, shaving, oral hygiene and dressing.
• Assisting with moving and handling, using equipment like hoists when necessary and reducing risks.
• Preparing, serving and assessing with meals and drinks to ensure proper nutrition.
• Providing emotional support to combat loneliness, encouraging social activities, and accomplishing residents on appointments or shopping trips.

• Helping residents with getting ready for day which is giving them shower or wash, getting dressed and other personal care needed.
• Keeping rooms clean which is changing bedding, cleaning toilet, mopping and hoovering.
• Spending time with residents, doing activities they enjoy, and keeping them company.
• Monitoring residents’ wellbeing and working with nursing team on any issues.
• Working with team to arrange social outings for residents.

.Performing light housekeeping chores such as cleaning, laundry and tidying up to ensure are safe environment.

. Recording daily notes for care plans, observing health and safety and monitoring confidentiality.

. Helping patients with activities.

.preparing meals and nutrition for them

• I did work placement in Enfield age UK as Care assistant. My role was to help elderly who had Dementia to go through what they just learned and help staff in play ground activities, and trips. I also helped elderly in their quizzes, chess, drawing, colouring , reading them story books and video games. This experience required me to be calm and patient with clients.

• I worked at nursery matter community hall with young children from 0 to 5 years old my position was nursery assistant. My experience of being nursery assistant involved having extensive knowledge of children, it requires knowing what makes them happy, keeping them entertained and being able to teach them in way that they can readily understand.
• As nursery assistant I would: change diapers, help with activities, serve food, get cots ready for nap, wash cups from lunch and prepare snack, fill out paper works, help get kids to sleep, clean up from lunch, read to children, stock diapers and wipes.. While children were taking nap, clean rooms and sanitising toys.