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Summary

Rates: From £100 per day / £700 per week

Availability: 29th January 2018

About Me:

I'm a mature kind and compassionate carer with a ready smile and great sense of humour. I have a positive attitude, and always try to instill this mentality in whomever I'm caring for. I have been a live-in carer (on a rota basis) for over 10 years, and during this period I have had the privilege of looking after, and learning about, so many interesting people and have been made to feel like a member of their extended families. Most of my experience has been in dementia care and as a cook/companion carer throughout the South West. I have also some experience of arterial stenosis (which can lead to sudden 'drop attacks'). Sadly my last employer of 3 years has been in hospital for nearly a month, and the family feel he will not be discharged any time soon. So it is with a heavy heart that I am seeking a new live-in position, preferably in Cornwall. I have excellent checkable references, not only from my previous clients but also from their children.

Other Services:

Animal care (feeding/grooming/walking)

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Experience

Other Experience:

Jan 2015 to Date
Private care (live-in): Professor John Dancy, Mousehole, Cornwall.

Companion/carer (on a rota basis with another carer) to a 96 yr old retired professor in Cornwall. The gentleman (had recently lost his wife) and was becoming lonely and depressed, he also required help bathing, dressing and meal preparation. As a 26year old he contracted Polio which, in his 90's, left him reliant on his four wheeled walker and upper body strength to propel him along. Recently he became far weaker and, sadly, whilst I was Christmas on leave the family had to have him admitted to hospital on Boxing day 2017. As things stand it looks as though the family may decide to transfer him into a care home.

2014 - 2015
Private care (3-5hr shifts 6 days a week): Mrs Betty Searle, Camborne, Cornwall

A local lady with stage 4 kidney disease who had been falling over fairly regularly. Although she was living with her daughter and son-in-law, I was engaged for 3-4hrs a day to encourage her to drink the required 1 litre of liquid a day, cooking and general companionship/care. Sadly, upon arriving for work one morning, I was told that she had been taken into hospital after a bad fall resulting in a head injury and subsequently the doctor recommended that she be moved into a nursing home as the family felt they could no longer cope.

2013 - 2014 (Approximately 6 months)
Private care live-in: Marly Agnew, Penzance, Cornwall

I was employed as a live-in carer (on a live-in rota basis with one other carer), to look after Marley who had advanced dementia and end stage chronic kidney disease. She also suffered from swollen legs due to water retention.

My duties included washing/dressing, daily weight & blood pressure monitoring; meal preparation, washing/ironing, exercising her two dogs, medication, and making sure she drank the required daily intake of liquid. (Refs available from her daughter)

2008 - 2014 Convivium Care, Bath

For approximately five years I worked for Convivium care agency (based in Bath) as a live-in carer. The period of care work I undertook were varied in duration (from two week holiday respite cover to a period of three years 6 months). I have only listed the longer periods below:
Via Convivium Care Agency (Bath)
Live-in care: Professor John Stradling & Dr Peggy Stradling, Somerset

For 3 1/2 years I was employed as a live-in carer to a retired professor/doctor with dementia, and his wife (also a retired doctor) who needed some care after an accident left her unable to walk without the aid of crutches. Sadly, Peter died and his widow, Peggy, asked me to stay on to look after her. A year, or so, later Peggy, who was 93, felt that her health had deteriorated to the point where she no longer feels she wanted the responsibility of maintaining her large home in Somerset, and decided to move into a residential home in Oxfordshire to be closer to her children
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I am still in regular contact with her, and have checkable references, not only from her, but also from her sons (also retired doctors).

Via Convivium Care Agency (Bath)
Live-in respite care: Mrs Audrey Verity, Bath

For a 5 week period I was placed in Bath as a respite carer (Christmas period) for a lady with Vascular Dementia and arterial stenosis which can lead to sudden 'drop attacks'. She had also fractured her hip, and had a hip replacement shortly before I arrived (Refs available from her family).

I have excellent (checkable) references, not only from my clients but also provided by their children.

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Qualifications

Other Qualifications:

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Interests

Food: I really enjoy cooking, and eating, varied foods from traditional British food to French; Chinese etc.

Music: I like a wide spectrum of music including Classical; Frank Sinatra; Big band sounds (Glen Miller etc.); 60's music; Latest chart music.

TV: Period dramas; Murder mysteries; Comedies; Documentaries.

Films: Period dramas; Old classic B/W Films; Comedies; Murder mysteries.

Books: Murder mysteries (P D James/Agatha Christie type); James Herriot type books.

Days Out: Visiting new places; Scenic walks or walks along the beach.

Other Interests: Doing crosswords (particularly the Daily Telegraph cryptic crossword); Puzzles; Board/Card games; Test cricket; Horse racing; Show jumping. Cooking; Reading.

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