Pearl T. Khumalo
Stratford,Newham
Summary
I am a keen, conscientious, hardworking and reliable person with an excellent timekeeping record. I get on well with people and can work as part of a team or on my own initiative with a great sense of humour. I have the ability to adopt and I am highly patient person. I love singing, walks, meeting new people at social events.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work history
Creative corner care
london, Southwark
01.2022 - Current
- Administered medication to patients, ensuring proper health management.
- Delivered excellent customer service by addressing concerns of patients' families.
- Assisted in daily living activities for enhanced patient comfort.
- Documented reports on daily observations accurately, helping in keeping track of every resident's progress over time.
- Adhered strictly to professional standards, regulations and policies at all times while executing duties.
- Respected privacy and dignity of each resident during provision of care services.
- Responded promptly to emergency situations, ensuring safety of all residents.
- Helped with personal care tasks, promoting hygiene and cleanliness amongst patients.
- Aid in mobility exercises which resulted in improved physical strength among elderly residents.
- Provided emotional support to patients, improving their mental wellbeing.
- Fed clients with severe limitations and assisted more mobile clients with self-feeding.
- Provided tailored support to family members through particularly difficult periods.
Live in
Divine home care And Lilly Health care
01.2021 - 02.2026
- My role involves assisting client with personal hygiene, wash and dress assisted client to transfer to the chair for breakfast. Feeding breakfast, lunch and dinner as required and assist with medication as recommended by medical team, feed peg experience make bed or change bed linen if needed, spend time with client watch tv with her, assisted client to change into night dress, assisted with oral care and assisted to transfer back to bed, do day to day household task e.g, laundry and ironing cleaning the house, negotiate breaks with client family.
Private client with bipolar
01.2020 - 01.2021
- My role involved providing with higher standard of care, take care of all the client needs responsibilities in regards to personal care including shower, shaving applying cream as required, preparing breakfast and served, administering medication, ensuring client dietary needs are meet and ensuring that his well hydrated all the time, take care of his daily activities are done, Doctors appointment and all other appointment are done, all household tasks are done e.g changing bed linen, laundry, ironing, cooking, cleaning the flat and shopping, assisting client to fulfill activities of daily living e.g walks and doing gardens as required, make sure client house secured lock on my exit.
Palliative care
CRW
01.2019 - 01.2020
- My duties was included changing pad, emptying the catheter leg bag and check that the catheter is draining well and not bypassing, changing leg bag as required, connect night bag. Managing client diet ensuring that client is taking enough fluids, and regular refreshing drinks and mouth swabs, ensure the client is comfortable all the time, check the client every hourly acknowledge pain and distress and take action, recording any changes in conditions and privacy and dignity was maintained all the time respect wishes of the client, and communicated in a sensitive and compassionate way to the dying client and those close to the client and offered more support to the relatives of the client all the time when was needed, hand over was always done to the day staff before I live the client home.
Live in Carer
Mrs Mason with Quality care and Mr Mason as private Carer
01.2016 - 01.2019
- My role was to take care of all Mrs Mason needs responsibilities in regards to Personal hygiene and managing diet and medication and day to day household tasks doing shopping as they required, as well as assisting client to fulfill activities of daily living e.g walks and a little bit of gardening, assist with menu planning, preparing, serving and storing of foods. negotiate breaks with client till Mrs Mason pass away, family asked me to looking after Mr Mason.
Live in Carer
Embrace Healthcare
01.2010 - 01.2016
- My role involves assisting client with personal hygiene and day to day household tasks e.g changing beds, laundry, ironing and shopping, as well as assisting client to fulfill activities of daily living, assist with menu planning, preparing, serving and storing of food. Assist with medication as recommended by the medical team. Negotiate breaks with clients which is mutually appropriate, while monitoring working hours. contact families if there’s a need.
Night Carer
Whitely Village Nursing home
01.2005 - 01.2010
- My role was involves personal hygiene, change client into their night cloths, changed pads put them into bed, use hoist where it’s needed, make them comfortable in bed, 2 hourly checks and changes pad if needed, assist them to use bedpan and turn them if needed, morning give them shower or bath if needed and hoist them to their chair or back to bed depending to client, make beds and tidying up their room and put all their needs near they reach before live their rooms, give hand over to the day staff.
Private home care
01.2003 - 01.2005
- My role involved providing the client with higher standards of care, My role was to take care of all their needs from Personal care, administering medication, take the client to their appointment, take them for walk if it’s required, prepare their meals, breakfast, lunch and dinner, feed them if it’s needed, washing up, tidying up their homes, assist them to use commode or assisted to walk to the toilet if they are mobile, clean hoist, wheelchair and make sure that they slings and sliding sheets are clean, hoist batteries are charged and the client is comfortable and live all their needs near their rich before I live their home, lock their doors on my exit.
Skills
- Personal care
- Feeding
- Giving medication
- Help with toileting
- Catheter management
- Peg feeding
- Preparing meals
- Reading care plans and implementing the strictly
- Writing reports efficiently
- Liasing with other allied health workers
- Palliative care experience
- Bathing and dressing assistance
- Experience with specialised equipment
- Patient safety training
- Hoist operation mastery
- End-Of-Life care competency
- Dementia care expertise
- Emergency response readiness
- Elderly support expertise
- Housekeeping
- Infection prevention and control
- Dementia awareness
- Food preparation
- Medication Administration
- Hoist operation
References
christopher@christopher-mason.com, Antony.wills@nhs.net, Fortunate@embracehealthcare.co.uk
Timeline
Creative corner care
01.2022 - Current
Live in
Divine home care And Lilly Health care
01.2021 - 02.2026
Private client with bipolar
01.2020 - 01.2021
Palliative care
CRW
01.2019 - 01.2020
Live in Carer
Mrs Mason with Quality care and Mr Mason as private Carer
01.2016 - 01.2019
Live in Carer
Embrace Healthcare
01.2010 - 01.2016
Night Carer
Whitely Village Nursing home
01.2005 - 01.2010
Private home care
01.2003 - 01.2005