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Karkku Col­lege of Home Eco­nom­ics and So­cial Ser­vices

House­keeper (with em­phasis on care)

A house­keeper of­fers care, nurs­ing and as­sist­ance in the house­work. The pro­fes­sion re­quires a prac­tical and meth­od­o­lo­gical ap­proach, com­mu­nic­a­tion skills, sense of re­spons­ib­il­ity and genu­ine caring about the cus­tom­ers’ well-​being.

A house­keeper works at the cus­tom­ers’ homes, cafes, ca­ter­ing ser­vices and com­pan­ies of­fer­ing house­keep­ing ser­vices. The gradu­ates have ex­cel­lent eem­ploy­ment op­por­tun­it­ies as per­sonal as­sist­ants within the so­cial and health care sec­tor.

Site Fa­cil­it­ies Op­er­at­ive

A site fa­cil­it­ies op­er­ator works in the clean­ing tasks of res­id­en­tial prop­er­ties, in­dus­trial es­tab­lish­ments, vehicles or com­mer­cial fa­cil­it­ies. In ad­di­tion, the tasks may in­clude the clean­ing of build­ings under con­struc­tion, tak­ing care of yards, small-​scale main­ten­ance work and lobby or care­taker ser­vices.  The work re­quires ser­vice ori­ent­a­tion, punc­tu­al­ity, ini­ti­at­ive and as­sum­ing re­spons­ib­il­ity.

Site fa­cil­it­ies op­er­at­ors may work at schools, of­fices, sports fa­cil­it­ies, factor­ies, res­id­en­tial prop­er­ties, air­ports, shop­ping centres, ho­tels, res­taur­ants, vehicles or con­struc­tion sites.

Prac­tical Nurse

The work of a prac­tical nurse is basic care work con­sist­ing of edu­ca­tional, care and re­hab­il­it­a­tion tasks. The wide-​ranging qual­i­fic­a­tion provides the pre­con­di­tions for flex­ible trans­itions within the so­cial and health care sec­tor. Human re­la­tion and in­ter­ac­tion skills are cent­ral in the pro­fes­sion.

Prac­tical nurses work in day­care, schools, home ser­vices, ser­vice and activ­ity centres for the dis­abled, day hos­pit­als, health centre wards, as­sisted liv­ing com­munit­ies, re­tire­ment homes and hos­pit­als.

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