PERSONAL CARE ASSISTANT

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Reporting To: Staff Nurse/ Nurse Manager

Position Summary:

• Provide basic nursing care/ services under the guidance of their Supervisors.
  

Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Serve all patients with care and compassion with respect to their spiritual and cultural beliefs.
2. Answer call bells and assist accordingly.
3. Assist walking patients to toilet, bath and shower, assist them with use of bedpans and on to wheelchairs and trolleys.
4. Send/ collect patients to and from wards/ clinics/ departments.
5. Assist patients with meals.
6. Prepare bed for admission of patients.
7. Send and collect sets to and from Central Sterile Supply Unit.
8. Ensure soiled linen is bagged and sent to the soiled storage room. Check and store away clean linen in the linen room / closed cupboard.
9. Collect and Store consumable items appropriately.
10. Maintain tidiness of wards/ patients room and cleanliness of assigned area or unit.
11. Assist Staff Nurse in basic nursing care of ambulant/ non-ambulant patients e.g.: pressure area care.
12. Ensure all chargeable items used for patients are duly recorded for accurate billing purposes.
13. Record intake and output chart correctly.
14. Male PCAs to assist in shaving and assisting in bed and toilet bath of male patients.
15. Assist Staff Nurse in disinfecting of equipments and items on discharge of patients.
16. Carry out work as assigned or requested.

Education and Requirements:

• SPM
• At least 2 years experience in hospital/ clinic work.
• Be conversant in English and Bahasa Malaysia, both written and oral.
  

Special Demands:

• Able to communicate well.
• Be polite to patients /relatives.
• Give service with a smile.

Your application will include the following questions:

• Which of the following statements best describes your right to work in Malaysia?
• What's your expected monthly basic salary?
• Which of the following types of qualifications do you have?
• How many years' experience do you have as a personal care assistant?

Columbia Asia Group of hospitals, established in Malaysia in 1996, is an international healthcare company operating medical facilities in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Columbia Asia hospitals are now part of Asia One Healthcare, which is majority-owned by Hong Leong Group and the global alternative asset management firm, TPG. Since its inception, Columbia Asia has dedicated and provided top-notch healthcare services across Southeast Asia for more than two decades. With 14 advanced medical facilities in Malaysia strategically located in densely populated areas, it aims to provide the best care possible closer to home with its tagline "Right Here For You".