Job Description
Benefits/Perks
- Flexible Schedule
- Weekly pay
- Direct Deposit
- Opportunity for Paid Time Off
- Discount Programs
- Insurance
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Warm, Friendly, Pressure-Free Environment
- Observes and maintains home environment to ensure the safety and security of the client;
- Assists with household chores including cooking, meal preparation, cleaning, and laundry;
- Assists in completing activities such as shopping and appointments outside the home;
- Provides companionship including, but not limited to, social interaction, conversation, emotional reassurance, encouragement of reading, writing, and mind-stimulating activities;
- Performs or assists the client with personal hygiene, including bathing, hair care, mouth care, and dressing, when skilled skin care, skilled transfer, or skilled dressing is not required.
- Maintains timely service records of home visits;
- Attends and participates in appropriate client care conferences, staff and education meetings, and agency committee meetings.
- Strong interpersonal skills which positively benefit interaction with clients and families, staff members, and the general public.
- Ability to exercise good judgment and self-control.
- Demonstrated ability to operate safely in the workplace, with experience in holding self-accountable to safety standards. Knowledge of principles and procedures of Personal Care and safety practices in the home care setting;
- Understanding of family interactions and the aging process.
- Beginning knowledge of nutrition and food service.
- Beginning skills in Personal Care.
- Ability to accurately observe, report, and record client care and condition.
- Ability to communicate effectively, verbally, and in writing.
- Valid, current driver's license and access to a reliable automobile, or
- Access to public or other reliable transportation.
- Completion of the appropriate twenty-hour training program, or
- Successful completion of skills validation via direct observation of the performance of tasks
- Six months or more Personal Care experience in a home care setting preferred
- Able to stand, kneel, bend at knees, and squat throughout the day.
- Ability to safely assist clients in and out of a vehicle and safely lift a wheelchair or walker weighing up to 50lbs into and out of a vehicle.
- Physical ability to lift and transfer clients
- Use arms, legs, feet, hands, and fingers to assist clients with performing tasks of daily living.
- Frequently move the whole body to perform tasks such as lifting, light housekeeping, walking, and driving.
- Sitting for long periods of time
- Ability to see and hear well (naturally or with correction)