Homebase Personal Health Care Worker: L3

Home Based Careers provide supervised care and support to patients and their immediate families/household members in the home and appropriate community based settings in order to promote, restore and maintain a person’s maximum level of comfort, function and health including care towards a dignified death. This qualification will equip learners with the necessary skills and competence to operate as Home-Based Careers

Admission requirements

English competency both written and spoken

Curriculum

Knowledge Modules:

• Fundamentals of Home Based Care
• Community Health Care and Social Support
• Rehabilitative Care within a home based environment
• Therapeutic Care within the home based environment
• Supportive and Palliative Care

Practical Modules:

• Assess and identify the needs of patients and family/household members, and develop/update a standardized care plan in collaboration with a professional supervisor
• Implement delegated components of the care plan (Household and patient)
• Identify and report on possible needs of patients and family/household members on an ongoing basis
• Educate patients and family/household members regarding the specific health/social conditions, implications and principles of care (to enable patients to make informed decisions)
• Capacitate patients/family/household members in basic practical care skills
• Record and submit required information as per the schedule