Samantha Mapuranga
Bexhill on sea,East sussex
Summary
Compassionate care professional with focus on night-time support in residential settings. Committed to enhancing residents' quality of life through attentive and empathetic care, ensuring comfort and safety during overnight hours. Skilled in managing varied needs and emergencies with calm and decisive actions.
Overview
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Certification
Work history
Night Care Assistant/Day shift care assistant
Mountside care home
Hastings, East sussex
01 2024 - Current
- Met needs of clients with learning difficulties and handled challenging behaviours.
- Assisted in all aspects of personal care while encouraging independence and activity appropriate to individual ability.
- Updated first aid training to protect client welfare.
- Assisted in all aspects of personal hygiene, prioritising patient dignity, privacy and independence.
- Monitored physical and emotional wellbeing of individuals, reporting changes to care managers.
- Safely lifted, transferred and repositioned service users using hoists and wheelchairs.
- Offered palliative care to patients with serious and terminal illnesses.
- Listened to clients' current struggles to signpost relevant support.
- Assessed clients and documented information for records and analysis.
Community care practitioner
Westminster homecare
London, South west London
05 2023 - 01 2024
- Picked up client shopping and prescriptions.
- Assisted in daily personal care routines for improved patient wellbeing.
- Closely monitored patient conditions, minimising need for additional medical attention.
- Guaranteed user safety by monitoring wellbeing and promptly reporting concerns.
- Hoovered and tidied rooms with keen eye for detail.
- Assisted clients with daily household tasks including cleaning, laundry and food preparation.
- Used manual handling techniques and lifting aids to position clients in safe, comfortable postures.
- Fed clients with severe limitations and assisted more mobile clients with self-feeding.
- Kept detailed records of care activities, condition changes and treatment responses.
- Partnered with supervisors and social services team to help coordinate quality care.
- Managed and updated client records, ensuring accuracy for dependable health and wellbeing monitoring.
Support Worker
Mbuya dorcas hospital
Harare, Zimbabwe
12 2022 - 04 2023
- Planned, prepared and served meals for clients, strictly following prescribed dietary orders.
- Submitted reports to manager regarding status of client.
- Monitored client health conditions and reported immediate issues to manager.
- Aided midwives with patients during pregnancy and birth.
- Massaged patient tissue and delivered other non-pharmacological pain relief.
- Assisted with medicine and stock counting, ordering and replenishing.
- Kept patient environments clean and neat following optimum hygiene standards.
- Recorded clinical observations in electronic health record and reported observed changes to senior clinical staff.
- Delivered personal care focused on individual needs, preserving patient dignity and self-esteem.
- Assembled and dismantled equipment required by healthcare professionals.
- Maintained hygiene standards, cleaning and clearing patient rooms according to ward protocol.
- Completed documentation of care, hospital actions and patient activities for up-to-date client records.
- Prepared healthy meals with additional mealtime planning, feeding and support.
Education
High School Education
Cherutombo high school
Skills
- Personal care
- Dementia care
- Meal preparation
- Person-centred care
- Compassion and empathy
- Activities of Daily Living
- Nursing care
- Medication administration
- Safeguarding knowledge
- Stoma care
- Catheterisation
- Patient handling and positioning
- Patient observations
- Clinical waste disposal
- Housekeeping
- Elderly care
- Care management
- Challenging behaviour management
- Vulnerable resident safeguarding
- Respite care
- Medication assistance
- Accident prevention strategies
- Bathing and grooming assistance
- Light housework
- First aid training
- Client record management
- CPR certified
- Health promotion and maintenance
Additional Information
- References upon request
Languages
English
Fluent
Certification
- Level 1 elfy trainings
- alison care certificate
- first aid training and cpr training
- care skills academy full care trainings
Timeline
Night Care Assistant/Day shift care assistant
Mountside care home
01 2024 - Current
Community care practitioner
Westminster homecare
05 2023 - 01 2024
Support Worker
Mbuya dorcas hospital
12 2022 - 04 2023
High School Education
Cherutombo high school