Joseph Emedem-chukwuji
Dartmouth,Canada
Summary
Empathetic Care Worker with sensitive and compassionate approach to cultivating trusting, stimulating and varied lifestyle for residents. Offers enhanced care with flexible learning approach for patients. Experience in hospital and in-home settings providing guidance and encouragement to patients through physical and emotional support.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Care/Support Worker
Cygnet Healthcare Hospital
Maidstone, Kent. Uk
11.2022 - 10.2023
- Provide person centred, high-quality care to service users within hospital
- Identify needs and preferences for each individual and ensure these are maintained
- Supporting service users with their chopping and monitoring individuals’ conditions, and money management
- Booking and accompanying service user to appointments
- Supporting and monitoring their healthcare needs, including temperature checks
- Ensure all service users receive care in dignified and respectful manner
- Working with other professionals, such as doctors and therapists, to ensure consistency of support
- Ensure patient OBS are done and update in News sheet
- Read each user’s care plan, including checking for updates, and ensuring full understanding of service required for everyone
- Accurate report, record and maintain care records
- Run group activities including arts and crafts, sport, and music
- Liaise with other healthcare professionals in wider multi-disciplinary team, including psychiatrists, doctors, and social workers
- Always display positive, acting as a positive role model to service users within the hospital
- Encourage positive relationships with other service users and staff within the hospital
- Report any issues immediately to senior staff
- Always maintain professional boundaries with service users.
- Engaged patients in meaningful conversation, socialization, and activity while providing personal care assistance.
- Built strong relationships with clients to deliver emotional support and companionship.
- Supported clients with mental support and physical activities to accomplish quality of life and sustain needs.
- Maintained clean personal areas and prepared healthy meals to support client nutritional needs.
- Assisted clients with daily living needs to maintain self-esteem and general wellness.
- Recognized and reported abnormalities or changes in patients' health status to case manager.
- Monitored client vital signs, administered medications, and tracked behaviors to keep healthcare supervisor well-informed.
- Provided compassionate and patient-focused care to cultivate well-being.
- Monitored clients' overall health and well-being and noted significant changes.
- Built and maintained rapport with clients and family members to facilitate trusting caregiver relationship.
- Transported clients to and from medical appointments with safety and efficiency.
- Completed regular check-ins and progress report for each client.
- Recorded patients' pulse, blood pressure and respirations (TPRs) to assess and document important health information.
Care /Support Worker
Hafod Care
Cardiff, Wales. UK
04.2021 - 07.2022
- Ensure reasonable care of my health safety and that of any other person at work environment
- Assisting with personal care such as showering and dressing
- Supporting service users with their chopping and monitoring individual’s conditions, and money management
- Booking and accompanying service users to their appointments
- Working with other professionals, such as doctors and therapists, to ensure consistency of support
- To ensure that all support and care is provided that protects adults from abuse, and exploitation, maintain their dignity and support positive risk taking
- Always maintain professional boundaries with service users’
- Accurate report, record and maintain care records
- Ensure safeguarding regulations are always upheld.
- Managed six resident in the resident home
- Built strong relationships with clients to deliver emotional support and companionship
- Engaged patients in meaningful conversation, socialization, and activity while providing personal care assistance
- Assisted with dressing guidance, grooming, meal preparation, and medication reminders
- Cleaned house, ran errands, managed laundry, and completed weekly grocery shopping
- Supported clients with mental support and physical activities to accomplish quality of life and sustain needs
- Maintained clean personal areas and prepared healthy meals to support client nutritional needs
- Assisted clients with daily living needs to maintain self-esteem and general wellness
- Recognized and reported abnormalities or changes in patients' health status to case manager
- Transported individuals to events and activities, medical appointments, and shopping trips
- Assisted with daily living activities, running errands, and household chores
- Provided compassionate and patient-focused care to cultivate well-being
- Monitored clients' overall health and well-being and noted significant changes
- Laundered items, changed sheets and made bed to keep patients' bedroom clean
- Built and maintained rapport with clients and family members to facilitate trusting caregiver relationship
- Transported clients to and from medical appointments with safety and efficiency
- Completed regular check-ins and progress report for each client
- Entrusted to handle confidential and sensitive situations in professional matter
- Handled incoming mail, bills and invoices and completed appropriate actions
- Scheduled daily and weekly care hours for client caseload
- Implemented physical therapy to support patient improvement in muscle tone, range of motion and injury recovery
Healthcare Support Worker
Procare Nursing Agency
Cardiff, Wales. United Kingdom
03.2021 - 05.2022
- Answer call signals; supply and empty bed pans; bathe, dress and groom patients; serve meal trays, feed or assist in feeding of patients and assist patients with menu selection; weigh, lift, turn, and position patients; shave patients prior to operations; supervise patients’ exercise routines, set up and provide leisure activities for patients, accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
- Take patients’ blood pressure, temperature, and pulse; report or record fluid intake and output; observe or monitor patients’ status and document patient care on charts; collect specimens such as urine, faeces or sputum; administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas and perform other procedures as directed by nursing and hospital staff
- Administer, in emergency situations, first aid to injured or ill individuals within scope of competencies
- Transport patients by wheelchair or stretcher for treatment or surgery Carry messages, reports, requisitions, and specimens between departments
- Make beds and maintain patients’ rooms
- Maintain inventory of supplies May perform maintenance tasks such as assisting with set-up and maintenance of traction equipment, cleaning or sterilizing equipment, maintaining, and repairing equipment, and assembling, setting-up and operating job-related equipment
- May transport patients between care facilities.
- Maintained safety with tidy, clean, and hazard-free home environments.
- Developed rapport to create safe and trusting environment for care.
- Assisted clients with daily living needs to maintain self-esteem and general wellness.
- Updated patient files with current vitals, behaviors, and other data relevant to treatment planning.
- Supervised daily activities and provided assistance to staff.
- Monitored progress and documented patient health status changes to keep care team updated.
- Assisted with crisis intervention to de-escalate challenging behavior and maintain peaceful encounters.
- Led patient or group recreational activities for enhanced patient outcomes.
- Monitored clients to assess and report physical and behavioral changes to supervisors.
- Encouraged and supported clients to participate in recreational and leisure activities to promote social interactions and reduce loneliness.
- Educated clients and family members on relevant topics to support independent living.
- Supported daily hygiene needs of patients by assisting with bathing, dressing, dental care and personal grooming.
- Provided compassionate and patient-focused care to cultivate well-being.
- Monitored clients' overall health and well-being and noted significant changes.
- Laundered items, changed sheets and made bed to keep patients' bedroom clean.
- Guided patients to restroom to support bladder and bowel relief requirements.
- Completed regular check-ins and progress report for each client.
- Recorded patients' pulse, blood pressure and respirations (TPRs) to assess and document important health information.
Healthcare Support Worker
Safehands Recruitment Agency
Cardiff, Wales. United Kingdom
04.2021 - 11.2021
- Answer call signals; supply and empty bed pans; bathe, dress and groom patients; serve meal trays, feed or assist in feeding of patients and assist patients with menu selection; weigh, lift, turn, and position patients; shave patients prior to operations; supervise patients’ exercise routines, set up and provide leisure activities for patients, accompany patients on outside recreational activities and perform other duties related to patient care and comfort
- Take patients’ blood pressure, temperature, and pulse; report or record fluid intake and output; observe or monitor patients’ status and document patient care on charts; collect specimens such as urine, faeces, or sputum; administer suppositories, colonic irrigations and enemas and perform other procedures as directed by nursing and hospital staff
- Administer, in emergency situations, first aid to injured or ill individuals within scope of competencies
- Transport patients by wheelchair or stretcher for treatment or surgery Carry messages, reports, requisitions, and specimens between departments
- Make beds and maintain patients’ rooms
- Maintain inventory of supplies May perform maintenance tasks such as assisting with set-up and maintenance of traction equipment, cleaning or sterilizing equipment, maintaining, and repairing equipment, and assembling, setting-up and operating job-related equipment
- May transport patients between care facilities.
- Kept accurate records for client files and handled related paperwork.
- Maintained safety with tidy, clean, and hazard-free home environments.
- Developed rapport to create safe and trusting environment for care.
- Maintained clean, safe, and well-organized patient environment.
- Assisted clients with daily living needs to maintain self-esteem and general wellness.
- Assisted disabled clients to support independence and well-being.
- Supervised daily activities and provided assistance to staff.
- Monitored progress and documented patient health status changes to keep care team updated.
- Assisted with crisis intervention to de-escalate challenging behavior and maintain peaceful encounters.
- Led patient or group recreational activities for enhanced patient outcomes.
- Monitored clients to assess and report physical and behavioral changes to supervisors.
- Encouraged and supported clients to participate in recreational and leisure activities to promote social interactions and reduce loneliness.
- Supported daily hygiene needs of patients by assisting with bathing, dressing, dental care and personal grooming.
- Assisted with daily living activities, running errands, and household chores.
- Provided compassionate and patient-focused care to cultivate well-being.
- Monitored clients' overall health and well-being and noted significant changes.
- Laundered items, changed sheets and made bed to keep patients' bedroom clean.
- Recorded status and duties completed in logbooks for management.
- Completed regular check-ins and progress report for each client.
- Entrusted to handle confidential and sensitive situations in professional matter.
- Recorded patients' pulse, blood pressure and respirations (TPRs) to assess and document important health information.
Education
Continuing Care Assistant -
CBBC Career College
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia11.2023
Occupational Safety, Health, and Wellbeing -
Cardiff Metropolitan University
Cardiff, Wales07.2022
Accountancy/Education -
Abia State University
Uturu, Abia state07.2002
Business Education -
Federal college of education (Technical)
Asaba, Delta State08.1999
West African Examination Council -
Ekuku Agbor Grammar School
Ekuku Agbor, Nigeria06.1993
Skills
- Ability to direct work of others as necessary
- Ability to Establish and maintain effective working relationship with other employees
- Good communication skill
- Possesses Excellent planning and management skill
- Goal oriented and ability to accomplish tasks within deadline
- Safety oriented
- Crisis prevention
- Manual handling
- Valid DBS check
- Safeguarding
- Administering medication
Professional Credentials
- Duty of Care CSTF
- Equality and Diversity CSTF
- Health and Safety CSTF
- Manual Handling & Moving of Fluid Balance and Vital Signs
- Food Hygiene and Safety
- Infection Prevention and Control Level 1&2 Includes COVID
- Manual Handling & Moving of People and inanimate objects (On-Line) Level 1 & 2
- PSTS/Conflict Management & PMVA Theory (Online Training
- Nutrition and Fluids
- RIDDOR
Hobbies and Interests
Reading and football.
References
Reference on request.
Languages
English
Full Professional
Reading, football and playing tennis
I love reading literature and christain books, I love watching football and i support arsenal. I love playing table tennis.
Timeline
Care/Support Worker
Cygnet Healthcare Hospital
11.2022 - 10.2023
Care /Support Worker
Hafod Care
04.2021 - 07.2022
Healthcare Support Worker
Safehands Recruitment Agency
04.2021 - 11.2021
Healthcare Support Worker
Procare Nursing Agency
03.2021 - 05.2022
Continuing Care Assistant -
CBBC Career College
Occupational Safety, Health, and Wellbeing -
Cardiff Metropolitan University
Accountancy/Education -
Abia State University
Business Education -
Federal college of education (Technical)
West African Examination Council -
Ekuku Agbor Grammar School