Robert Metcalf
Berwyn
Summary
Devoted personal care professional skilled in fostering client health and convenience through assisting with daily activities and health needs. Driven to promote healthy habits to encourage client well-being by demonstrating healthy habits. Dedicated to applying emerging techniques to derive best possible outcomes.
Sympathtic personal care aide with several years of experience supporting patients with activities of daily living. Professional and clear communicator when instructing and assisting patients as well as when reporting information to healthcare team and supervisors.
Overview
2025
2025
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Dsp
Goldie floberg
Rockford
08.2021 - 01.2025
- Monitored health and well-being of clients and reported significant health changes.
- Helped clients communicate with loved ones by typing written messages and relaying verbal messages.
- Assisted clients with maintaining good personal hygiene.
- Planned and prepared healthy meals and snacks for clients and provided assistance with eating when necessary.
- Organized oral medications for clients following dosage and schedule requirements.
DSP
Oak Leyden
Oak Park
10.2015 - 07.2017
- Built strong and trusting rapport with clients and loved ones.
- Monitored health and well-being of clients and reported significant health changes.
- Helped clients get in and out of beds and wheelchairs.
- Monitored clients' activity levels and helped prevent sedentary behavior.
- Helped clients communicate with loved ones by typing written messages and relaying verbal messages.
- Maintained cleanliness of clients' environment by cleaning surfaces and washing clothes or dishes.
- Recorded client status progress and challenges in logbooks and reports.
- Partnered with registered nurses and physiotherapists to provide care to patients.
- Contributed to case reviews of client status and progress.
- Organized oral medications for clients following dosage and schedule requirements.
- Consulted with client care team to continually update care plans.
- Planned and prepared healthy meals and snacks for clients and provided assistance with eating when necessary.
- Assisted clients with maintaining good personal hygiene.
- Instructed family members on how to provide bedside care.
- Helped clients adjust to new lifestyles during periods of incapacitation or recuperation.
- Drove clients to doctors' appointments and social outings.
- Obtained sources of entertainment for clients to provide full and enjoyable daily activities.
- Maintained detailed records of services performed on clients.
- Collected and recorded patients' blood pressure, pulse, and respirations (TPRs) to evaluate and note basic health status.
- Contacted medical providers on behalf of clients to follow up on appointments.
DSP
Mosaic
Education
Trade School - Healthcare
Paul Simon Job Corps
Chicago, IL08-2015
High School Diploma -
West Town Academy
Chicago, IL06-2012
Skills
- Medication administration
- Patient monitoring
- Client communication
- Care plan development
- Patient care
- Health monitoring
- Client relationship management
- Nutritional planning
- Activity planning
- Team collaboration
- Time management
- Record keeping
- Care planning
- Personal Safety Techniques
- Personal hygiene
- Safety compliance
- Feeding assistance
- Monitor vital signs
- Grooming assistance
- Cooking and meal preparation
- Certified in CPR/AED
- Disability care
- Personal care aide (PCA)
- First aid certification
- Patient confidentiality
- Service documentation
Certification
- Dsp certified registry CPR certified first aid typified
Timeline
Dsp
Goldie floberg
08.2021 - 01.2025
DSP
Oak Leyden
10.2015 - 07.2017
DSP
Mosaic
Trade School - Healthcare
Paul Simon Job Corps
High School Diploma -
West Town Academy