Personal Care Assistant PCA

A Care Assistant, or Professional Carer, is responsible for upkeeping their clients’ hygiene, ensuring their safety and facilitating social-emotional support. Their duties include administering medications, cleaning a client’s living area and managing activity or care schedules.

Assistant duties and responsibilities:

Care Assistants are often required to react to a patient’s needs, but typical duties might include:

• Assisting clients with care such as grooming, washing and maintaining personal hygiene standards
• Preparing and serving healthy, nutritious meals, taking into account any special dietary needs and personal preferences
• Identifying activities that would appeal to the patients and ensuring that they are suitably stimulated
• Preparing food and drinks for patients
• Contributing to a clean, well-organized and pleasant environment for all patients
• Performing light housekeeping duties
• Lifting, moving, positioning and transporting clients
• Providing social companionship
• Ensuring clients take their prescribed medication on time
• Assisting with physical therapy exercises
• Escorting clients to and from appointments
• Taking clients’ temperatures, pulse and weight
• Following care plans created by medical staff
• Running errands for clients or accompanying them on errands
• Reporting any changes in health or behavior