Care & health

Residential & Home Care SJT

This Situational Judgement Test measures the therapeutic rapport and empathy shown by candidates working in a client's own home, covering communication skills, empathic sensitivity, desire to understand and empathic judgement.

Candidates work through a simulated care shift involving four elderly clients, with four linked scenarios per client (16 steps in total), ranking response options from most to least appropriate at each step. It is designed for roles focused on providing care for others, including residential and home care, social work and nursing.

Duration

Approximately 15 minutes

Untimed

Scenarios

Format

Written scenarios

Try a sample question

These are the practice questions a candidate sees before the Residential & Home Care SJT starts. Have a go — the answer and an explanation appear after each one. Nothing is recorded.

It is 8:30am. When you arrive, Xanthe is sitting in the kitchen, wearing her night dress and slippers. She seems upset, saying she has lost her purse. Looking around the kitchen you notice a lot of unwashed pots, plates and cutlery piled up on the work surface and in the sink. What would you do first?

Select the response you believe is MOST appropriate and the response you believe is LEAST appropriate.

MostLeast

Ask if she would like to look for her purse before making some breakfast.

Ask how she is feeling today.

Offer to wash up, saying the purse might be somewhere among the dishes.

Sit down next to her, and gently explain the risks to her health if the kitchen isn't kept clean.

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