Our Health and Frail Care Programme (Accredited QCTO Home Based Personal Assistant: 104779 Part Qualification) is a full-time 20-week programme consisting of 4 weeks Health styled foundation life skills programme + 15 weeks Health Care training (6 weeks on-campus plus 9 weeks work integrated learning) + 1 week soft skills/Dementia workshop enhancing employabilty skills. Practical training during the programme is offered at one of many care care institutions across the Winelands area.

The purpose of the programme is to teach learners how to take care of a sick or frail patient, an elderly person or a sick baby/child. The Programme cover modules such as ethical care at health care centres and in private homes, basic anatomy, assisting immobile patients, and baby and child care. Our students complete their practical training at institutions like specialist children’s hospitals and local old age homes and private home based care at retirement villages. They also regularly obtain employment at the institutions where they complete their practical training.

“The best thing you can do for an elderly person is to treat them with patience and respect.”
– Krystal Mowers, a frail care assistant in private employ

• Ethics of care at a Health Care Centre and Private House
• Primary Health Care
• Taking care of the patient’s environment
• Mobility
• Personal care of a patient
• Anatomy and physiology of the human body and normal changes with ageing
• Basic first aid
• Maintaining health and functionality
• Care of patients with specific problems
• Care of infants, babies and child care
• Palliative care
• Death and bereavement support