Are you looking to provide excellent care to senior and elderly patients in your community? We have an exciting and wonderful opportunity for someone with at least 1 year of experience as a caregiver or personal care attendant.
Essential Functions:
• Provides personal care/escort assistance according to the individual care plan (i.e. grooming, dressing, peri-care, showers, bathing, toileting, housekeeping, meal preparation/feeding, laundry) and reports observed changes in the participant's condition to the interdisciplinary team.
Interacts and provides services to participants, families, and interdisciplinary team, in a professional manner.
Qualifications:
• Minimum one-year experience working with the elderly or frail population required.
• No certification required.
• Ability to work independently and as part of an interdisciplinary team.
• Flexible to work in multiple environments including home or center.
• Positive can-do attitude, conscientious, compassionate, thorough.
• Basic conversational English skills required; testing may be required.
• Bilingual may be required with ability to speak primary language to care for participant population; language testing may be required.
• Able to translate/interpret basic information for supervisor/manager, participant and other caregivers; testing may be required.
• Able to document care related items in Basic English (e.g. check off items on flow/monitoring sheets, simple words, etc.) on designated forms or electronic health record.
• Physical requirements: Ability to stoop, reach, stand, walk, push, pull, lift, grasp, talk, hear, and repeat motions of the wrist and hands. Must have visual acuity. Must be able to lift/move weight that is within individual physical ability and use appropriate lifting devices or request assistance when needed.
Monday – Friday, 40 hours a week, 7 am – 3pm, or 3pm -11 pm, including weekends and holidays.