Home Based Personal Care Assistant

COURSE BACKGROUND

COURSE BREAKDOWN (HPO)

Knowledge Modules:

• Fundamentals of Home Based Care.
  Total number of credits for Knowledge Modules: 8.

  Practical Skill Modules:

• Identify and report on possible needs of patients and family/household members on an ongoing basis.
• Implement delegated components of the care plan (Household and patient).
• Capacitate patients/family/household members in basic practical care skills.
  Total number of credits for Practical Skill Modules: 30.

  Work Experience Modules:

• Exposure to the processes of monitoring the implementation of the home-based care plans.
• Exposure to the processes of ensuring the active participation of patients and households in the management of care at home.
• Exposure to the processes of capacitating patients/family/household members in basic practical care skills.

·  Exposure to the referral processes.
Total number of credits for Work Experience Modules: 30. 

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

• Home based care giver
• Live-in carer
• Health care worker
• Care assistant

Duration of the course

it is a 12 months course with 2 intakes per year that is January, June.

National Examination
Learners will have to complete internal assessments (FORMATIVE AND SUMMATIVE) assignments 01-16 those assignments are part of General Assessments towards the POE File. Learners will be doing the monthly internal assessments, mid-year exams and end of the year exams to assess the students if they are progress towards the EISA Exams. At the end of the course which is 12/18/24 months must be completed which gives a student a right to sit in for the EISA Examinations. These are exams from Seta.