Filipino caregiver internships 


Three quick questions

Are you a Filipino with a passion for serving Christ through caregiving, hospitality and other acts of personal service?

Are you available for a year to live in at our Olongapo base?

And could you grow a heart for detainees?

Yes, yes and yes?

Then why not have a think about serving with us, a growing non-government organisation (NGO) with a heart for detainees?

Our SEC-registered Philippines arm, Integridad: Heart for Detainees is proud to announce the launch of a new training initiative…

We are recruiting one or two live-in caregiver interns for a fixed one year period!

If this initiative goes well in 2025, it will becoming an ongoing scheme with new interns every year!

Want to know more?

The staff at our exciting residential & clinical base in the centre of Olongapo have exciting, varied lives:-

  • mixing with local and international volunteers

  • treating and reaching out to patients - all detainees, ex-detainees or their dependents

  • welcoming other clients - including TESDA student caregiver & nurse assistants on their On-the-Job-Training (OJT) placements with us

  • being hospitable to other residential guests

Job description

Your hours

  • This is a full-time role for a fixed period of one year:-

    • six days per week:-

      • Monday to Saturday, except when guests are in residence when you may be required to work Sundays and have a mid-week day off

      • 08:30 - 17:30 hours

      • one hour off for lunch/breaks

    • up to seven nights per week:-

      • sleeping onsite as an in-person security measure and to welcome any late night guests

      • a rota for onsite nights will be drawn up:

        • our administrative officer is often resident Mondays-Wednesdays and sometimes Thursdays-Fridays

        • we may take on more than one intern

        • when not rostered, interns will be expected to sleep offsite

  • Overtime: occasional working on public holidays and overnight working may be required; see ‘your expectations’

Your oversight

  • You will work in cooperation with the rest of the Olongapo-based staff, sharing tasks when skill mixes overlap and at times of high demand

  • Your line management will be:-

    • clinical duties: our projects officer and our international chief medical officer

    • non-clinical duties: our administrative officer

Your duties

Access: welcoming patients and other clients, staff and guests

  • Animals: caring for domesticated cat

  • Bedrooms & bathrooms: when guests or staff are in residence, Monday to Saturday bed making and bathroom cleaning

  • Caregiving:-

    • on site:-

      • when patients come to our clinic: taking observations and basic caregiving

      • when clients/patients are in residence: participating in a caregivers’ rota

    • off site in police stations and other places of detention: taking observations, performing basic caregiving, and helping to provide spiritual encouragement

  • Cleaning: internal cleaning of our residential house and our small clinical facility

  • Clinic: keeping our clinic clean, tidy and well stocked

  • Cooking:-

    • on weekdays: when patients, guests or staff are in residence, Monday-Friday preparation of light lunches and simple cooked evening meals

    • for weekends: preparation and freezing of meals for consumption on weekends

    • for detainees: preparation of meals for our police detainee feeding program

  • Gardening: basic cleaning of courtyard and maintenance of pot plants

  • Hospitality: ensuring comfort of clients, guests and staff, including serving drinks

  • Inventorising: keeping up-to-date our inventories of clinical and domestic supplies

  • Laundry: washing domestic and clinical laundry, and small amount of ironing

  • Maintenance: easy building maintenance tasks such as wall painting

  • Other: timely completion of other suitable tasks, allocated at daily meeting

  • Security: setting alarm system every evening and being visible security presence

  • Shopping: buying food and household items

  • Team work: including attending daily team meetings every morning

  • Trash: maintaining our eco-friendly trash disposal system

  • Vehicles: opening and closing carport doors for vehicles, and keeping our vehicle clean

  • Washing up: washing up dishes, except during large events and at weekends when automatic dishwasher is used

Your expectations

All our staff receive three personalised T-shirts in different colours (blue plus two of personal choice) in addition to medical scrubs

  • Salary: P10,000 per month:-

    • 80% salary during probationary period

    • plus rice allowance when onsite

    • minus P1,500 to cover the cost of your accommodation and utilities

  • Overtime payment: we pay overtime in line with Philippine employment law to recompense working on public holidays. All other overtime is reimbursed as time off in lieu (TOIL) - that is, additional leave days. TOIL is accrued for Sunday daytime working or Monday-Sunday evening active working (eg for a particular event or to provide hands-on patient care) as opposed to simply being onsite.

  • Accommodation: furnished bedroom with night time air conditioning, and use of staff kitchen and sala. In the event that we recruit more than one intern of the same gender, this bedroom will be shared.

  • Annual leave:-

    • ten paid days

    • we observe all public holidays and award the statutory amount of pay (or additional leave days) for working on them, which is sometimes required (for example, when we have residents or when other staff are on leave)

  • Appraisal: supportive appraisal process

  • Benefits: Pag-IBIG, PhilHealth and SSS

  • Care: kind and considerate employer

  • Food: rice allowance

  • Occupational health: free annual check-up, as-required medical advice, and use of on-site gym

  • Probationary period: three months

  • Sick leave: up to five paid days

  • Training:-

    • access to our well stocked reference health and social care library

    • free attendance at certain external training events at our base

    • in-house training program

    • a graduation certificate upon completion of the internship

  • Uniform: free uniform

  • Utilities: a fixed deduction will be made for your consumption of utilities

  • Wi-fi: free use of high quality wi-fi

Person specification

Experience, knowledge, qualifications & skills

We use electronic medical records!

  • Essential

    • Abie to attain the high cleaning standards required for a healthcare facility

    • Able to learn to use an online inventory

    • Able to learn to use electronic medical records (EMR)

    • Excellent skills in accurate taking of physical observations

    • Excellent standard of spoken and written English

    • Fluent in spoken and written Tagalog

    • Good cook of simple Filipino dishes and ability to learn specified basic international dishes

    • Good all-round housekeeper

    • High school graduate

    Desirable

    • Additional Filipino language(s)

    • Car/van driver with clean license

    • Complete fluency in spoken and written English

    • Experience of using EMR

    • Experience of using an online inventory

    • Graduate of:-

      • TESDA caregiver II course, or higher (eg nurse assistant or nurse), with supportive reference from tutor

      • our in-house caregiver/nurse assistant OJT scheme, with supportive reference from placement supervisor

    • Knowledge of health and social care issues affecting detainees, ex-detainees and their dependents

    • Work experience:-

      • within a healthcare facility

      • within a place of detention

      • within an international team

Health & safety

  • Essential

    • Good understanding of food hygiene

    • No allergy to cats or dogs*

    • Physically and mentally fit*

    • Vaccination (or willingness to be vaccinated) against COVID-19 and Hepatitis B Virus (HBV)

  • Desirable

    • Food hygiene certificate

    • Vaccination (or willingness to be vaccinated) against rabies and tuberculosis

Personal attributes

A caring nature is essential

  • Essential

    • Active evangelical Christian with personal faith in Jesus, with supportive reference from current pastor*.

    • Caring, empathetic nature

    • Confidential nature

    • Diligent nature

    • Excellent personal hygiene

    • Flexible nature

    • Good team player, with supportive reference from last employer/tutor

    • Happy personality

    • Heart for detainees, ex-detainees and their dependents

    • Honest with clean National Police Check

    • Neat dresser

    • No addictions (eg alcoholism or drug use - random testing may be deployed)

    • Non-judgmental attitude

    • Punctual

    • Respectful of authority

    • Single (ie not in a living together relationship) with no dependent children*

    • Tidy habits

    • Young attitude*

  • Desirable

    • Ability to delegate, lead and organise during an emergency

    • Ability and willingness to talk about the Christian life with detainees, ex-detainees and their dependents*

    • Aged 22-30*

Availability

  • Essential

    • Available from start of March 2025 until the year end

  • Desirable

    • Willing to consider longer term involvement with our organisation, but (as this is a one year internship) in another post from 2026

Notes

Occupational Requirements

This job is based in the Philippines and so will be subject to Philippine employment law. That said, for the avoidance of doubt regarding the UK Equalities Act 2010, person specifications marked with an asterisk are considered to be occupational requirements.

Dates

  • Closing date: 23:59 hours on 14th February 2025

  • Short-listing dates: third week of February

  • Interview dates: TBC but likely fourth week of February

  • Start date: a mutually convenient date around the start of March

Process

  • Informal enquiry: message us on Facebook or email.

  • Informal visit: message us on Facebook to make an appointment.

  • Formal application: this post is longer than three months, so complete the online application form on our serving web page. We do not process applications received in other ways.

  • Short-listing: we endeavour to contact all applicants, short-listed or otherwise.

  • References will be taken up before interview.

  • Selection process: each short-listed candidate will be invited for a long day to participate in team events, have a formal interview, and do practical exercises including caregiving and cleaning; travel expenses will be paid.

The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge…
Proverbs 18:15