Grace Boakye

Enthusiastic, caring and empathetic support worker with a sound background in basic life support training and considerable experience in assisted living, Care Homes, Domiciliary care, and Health Care Provision and Assisting. Dedicated to supporting the vulnerable and individuals with special needs with utmost respect and consideration. Ability to provide basic daily living skills according to the individual's care plan to deliver proper care.

Ability to effectively multitask and work as a team member in a fast-paced environment. I am always ready to work and learn within ethical and professional parameters. I follow provided guidelines by my establishment, superior, and work effectively as a team with good work relations.

My basic life support training gives me sufficient transferable skills, knowledge, and adaptability required to thrive in health and social care.

Support Worker - Sir Henry Recruitment Ltd (Agency) - United Kingdom

(2024-01)

Supporting vulnerable people to live their lives as independently as possible whilst helping them to reach their potential, through physical support, assisting them to make better decisions on what to wear, and making good choices to better individuals to face society.

• Support service users with personal hygiene needs, washing, and dressing, assisting with a shower, shaving, mouth care and eye care.
• Assisting with moving and handling, incontinence care and elimination needs; repositioning and maintaining safety.
• Providing physical care to clients, depending on the varying needs of each client.
• Monitoring each client and also taking daily records on improvement.
• Assisting with eating and drinking, maintaining food and fluid intake.
• Maintaining up-to-date records relating to service users' health and well-being and mental state; reporting to the person in charge.
• Ensuring all matters related to patient care or their families are kept confidential at all times
• Reporting any safeguarding concerns and incidents.
• 1-1/2-1 special observations
• Keeping mandatory training up to date.
• Maintaining my NISCC registration and upholding the council's standards of conduct and practice.

Healthcare Assistant - Ambar Care Limited - United Kingdom

(2023-01 - 2023-12)

Supporting vulnerable people to live their lives as independently as possible whilst helping them to reach their potential, through support.

• Providing physical care to clients, depending on the varying needs of each client.
• Assisting with getting daily activities done which includes personal care, laundry, house chores, shopping, cooking and also going out.
• Assisting with attending activities at community facilities.
• Responsible for the well-being and safety of the client under care.
• Managing, accounting, and keeping records of daily finances and expenditure.
• Having meaningful engagement, motivating and supporting client in making decisions about all aspects of their daily living, in a way that promotes their wellbeing.
• Ensure all matters related to patient or their families are kept confidential.

National Service Personnel - Food and Drugs Authority (FDA)

(2022-01 - 2022-12)

Food Service Establishments Department Street Food Inspection

• Identifying, Listing, and Sensitizing Street Food Vendors on food hygiene and safety
• Assisting in Special inspections of Food Service Establishments
• Uploading data files to Google drive
• Customer care
• Maintaining a clean and organized environment
• Home visits and care services, to offer nutritional advisory services

Nutritionist - Maamobi General Hospital

(2021-01 - 2021-12)

Intern

• Ensuring proper patient care by ensuring compassion and empathetic care are administered to the client
• Educating patients/clients with non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and hypertension on diet management
• Educating pregnant women on the prevention and control of anemia
• Educating baby mothers on exclusive breastfeeding
• Assessing the nutritional status of patients and clients at all ages
• Maintaining a clean and organized work environment.
• Assisting with a personal plan for nutrition and diabetes to help maintain your blood glucose level within the normal range.
• Assisting with weighing, height measurement and checking the BMI (body mass index) of clients of different ages, checking blood pressure.

Bachelor - Food Science and Technology - Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology