A Home Based Personal Care Assistant provides supervised care and support to patients and household members in the home, in order to promote, restore and maintain a person’s comfort, function, spiritual wellbeing and physical health including care towards a dignified death. The work of a Home Based Personal Care Assistant focusses on:
. therapeutic work (to make better)
. rehabilitative work (to restore to health)
. long-term maintenance (to care for over a long time)
. palliative care (for those with life-limiting conditions).
Learners write national exams upon completion of the course, Exams are written in March and October / November every year.