Aged carer training

AC recruit

More and more people are becoming dependent on aid and care in old age. While it’s certainly not the easiest task to support and look after the elderly, it is exciting. During your three-year training, you’ll acquire skills in all areas of aged care, learning about the profession from scratch. You work will involve assisting our residents with all areas of daily life. You’ll help them get up or get dressed, assist them with walking, or sometimes just be there to listen. Along with personal contact, your varied mission will also include documenting or upholding hygiene guidelines. You’ll also learn a lot about yourself, basic human values, and the meaning of life.

Upon graduating as a carer, you’ll be able to specialise further in many areas, and ultimately also perform managerial functions at our facilities. A career with prospects.

Find out here what you need in order to become a recruit for a good cause:

 

Requirements for our recruits

  • Age: 16 years
  • Certificate of good conduct
  • Good physical condition (medical certificate no more than three months old)
  • Time: 3-4 years

 

Professional qualification

  • General secondary school-leaving certificate (“Realschulabschluss“)/equivalent recognised certificate or advanced “Hauptschulabschluss” (minimum school-leaving qualification)
  • Successful work during the six-month trial period.

 

Training content

  • Acquiring knowledge and skills required to independently nurse, counsel and care for the elderly
  • Varied collaboration with a different vocational groups
  • Administrative tasks
  • Helping with medical diagnostics and therapy
  • Ensuring residents can remain as independent as possible by helping with personalised, holistic, activity-based care
  • Boosting residents’ self-contentment
  • Implementing the nursing model
  • Economical handling of operational equipment, nursing aids and consumables
  • Mastering dialogue techniques: listening/encouraging/talking people out of things

 

Additional ranks

  • Nurse
  • Quality officer
  • Clinic manager
  • Wound manager
  • Hygiene officer
  • Residence manager
  • Gerontopsychiatric nurse
  • Nursing manager
  • Facility manager

 

Danger money

  • 1st year of training: € 700 per month
  • 2nd year of training: € 800 per month
  • 3rd year of training: € 900 per month
  • (plus shift allowances)

FAQ


Three years.

Yes, the state-run final examination must be passed.

Your work will include all tasks associated with caring for residents. They range from helping with personal hygiene to devising activities for the residents. A multi-week preliminary internship will give you a good insight into everyday clinic life.

Anyone working in this field should be prepared to work shifts. While individual arrangements are possible, you must be willing to work on weekends and public holidays.

Yes, but as of the 2015/16 training year, you can reclaim them from the Saxon government one year at a time (with proof). The amount varies between € 30 and 58 per month.

Theory lessons are held at various vocational colleges, and depend on your facility’s location.

We grant you an amount of € 150 for initial work clothing. You can submit the receipt for this to the HR department upon successful completion of the trial period.

Yes, this option is available, but not at all locations.

Very good. Almost 100% of graduates find employment within a short space of time.

You will have good chances of receiving a permanent employment contract if you have successfully completed the training and demonstrated personal dedication.

You have a leave entitlement of 25 days per calendar year. Leave must always be planned one year in advance in consultation with the respective facility.

The documents should be sent to us carefully and appropriately, either by post or email. In the event of electronic applications, documents must be contained in one PDF. Document completeness is also important: There should be a covering letter, CV, and a copy of your last two references. The covering letter must state the training course (occupation) for which you are applying.

You may apply for vacant training positions starting from the spring of the year prior. Applications close 31/8 of the year prior, and the selection processes begin in September.

The trial period generally serves as a means of getting to know one another, and lasts for six months. You or your employer may terminate the training during the trial period.

If you can’t meet the fees, you may apply for a vocational training grant (Berufsausbildungsbeihilfe/BAB) from the German Federal Employment Agency. If you are not entitled to receive this and your application is rejected, you may apply for housing benefits.

If you’re under 25, your parents will also still continue to receive a child allowance for you, insofar as you are undertaking training.


Central practical instructor

Kristin Fischer

Central practical instructor Kristin Fischer is the contact person for our facilities’ individual practical instructors, and your informant when it comes to our recruit assignments. Your training with the A-Team is no jump in the deep end, because we’ll assist you every step of the way to assimilate you into your (new) working world. Ms Fischer organises trainee icebreaker afternoons and advanced courses for trainees and practical instructors, and ultimately holds instructor days with all recruits to prepare you optimally for your examinations. Once these have been passed, the coast is clear for you to embark on a promising career, and rise further up the ranks in the A-Team.

Contact

Kristin Fischer
Central practical instructor
037327 8770
kr.fischer[at]stiftung-muench.de>