Seniors Care Associate (Night Home Care)

About the role

TOUCH Community Services is hiring a full-time Seniors Care Associate to deliver Enhanced Home Personal Care (EHPC) services to frail elderly clients, supporting safe ageing-in-place in the community. The role covers responsive, short-duration personal care and emergency support during night hours (8:00 PM to 8:00 AM), including scheduled night interventions, urgent unscheduled care requests with a one-hour response time and community emergency activations. The post holder must work independently, exercise sound judgment in urgent situations and escalate and report issues promptly.

Key responsibilities

• Respond to unscheduled care requests within one hour and conduct on-site assessments
• Provide personal care, hygiene care such as assisted shower or bed sponging, change clothes or diapers and assist with toileting
• Maintain a safe, clean and hazard-free home; clean up bodily fluids and change soiled linen or bedsheets at night
• Lift, transfer and reposition clients safely
• Attend scheduled care interventions covering housekeeping and personal care
• Assist and remind clients with medication, monitor compliance and vital signs (temperature, blood pressure, pulse)
• Perform higher care tasks such as simple wound dressing, stoma care, PEG tube care, nebuliser care and cold compresses as instructed
• Document all services and report significant changes in client condition
• Provide administrative support, keep care outposts clean and carry out ad-hoc duties assigned by the supervisor

Required profile

• Local applicants: minimum GCE N Level or equivalent, plus training in a Workforce Skills Qualification Higher Certificate, Advanced Certificate in Healthcare Support (Nursing Care), or ITE Healthcare (Home Care) programme
• Foreign applicants: completed more than 6 months of nursing aide course in their home country; caregiving or healthcare experience preferred
• Able to cycle, as this is the main mode of transport between visits
• Physically fit for hands-on caregiving

To apply, download the application form and submit it with an updated resume to the employer's careers team.