Job Descriptions

Requirements:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Complete criminal background check, DMV check and drug screen
• Access to a car
• Possess valid driver’s license and auto insurance
• Ability to communicate with clients in a courteous manner and treat them with respect
• 0-2 years working with the elderly

Duties:

• Provide conversation
• Prepare and serve meals and/or snacks
• Grooming and dressing guidance
• Light housekeeping
• Laundry and linen service to include washing, ironing and folding clothes
• Errand service, including grocery and clothes shopping
• Transportation for client which includes visits to doctor appointments, friends and family members
• Assisting/planning of client’s recreational activities and events
• Remind client of medications
• Record and report changes in the client’s physical condition, behavior or appearance to Supervisor or Care Coordinator

Requirements:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Complete criminal background check, DMV check and drug screen
• Access to a car
• Possess valid driver’s license and auto insurance
• Ability to communicate with clients in a courteous manner and treat them with respect
• 0-2 years working with the elderly

Duties (including but not limited to):

• Light housekeeping: vacuuming, dusting, sweeping or mopping floors, doing dishes, changing bed linens, doing laundry and cleaning bathrooms
• Preparing meals and snacks according to instructions
• Shopping for groceries
• Transportation for client which includes visits to doctor appointments, friends and family members
• Errand service to client to includes grocery and clothes shopping
• Reminding the client to take medication
• Providing companionship for the client (includes accompanying client on walks, trips to social/recreational activities, assistance with hobbies, etc.)
• Record and report changes in the client’s physical condition, behavior or appearance to Supervisor or Care Coordinator

Requirements:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• CNA/HHA/PCA certification
• Complete criminal background check, DMV check and drug screen
• Access to a car
• Possess valid driver’s license and auto insurance
• Ability to communicate with clients in a courteous manner and treat them with respect
• 1-2 years working with the elderly

Duties (including but not limited to):

• Grooming, bathing, dressing and toileting
• Assisting with shaving, only with the use of an electric shaver
• Assisting with feeding client providing the client can still independently swallow and be positioned upright
• Assisting with general skin care when skin is unbroken and when any chronic skin problems are not active. Skin care should be preventive rather than therapeutic in nature. *Caregivers may apply non-medicated lotions and solutions that do not require a physician’s prescription.*
• Assisting with pivot transfers (bed to chair, chair to bed, chair to commode and wheel-chair to car) only when the client has sufficient balance and strength to reliably stand, pivot and assist with the transfer
• Adaptive and safety equipment may be used in transfers, provided the client and caregiver are fully trained in the use of equipment and can direct the transfer. *Caregivers can assist with the use of gait belts and transfer devices with the proper training and demonstrated competency.*
• Empty or change external urinary and ostomy bags
• Assisting with client directed non-invasive (non-inserted) care only when there is no need for skilled skin care or for observation. Otherwise must be reported to a nurse
• Assisting client with blood sugar checks; that is limited to opening containers and handling equipment. *Caregiver cannot perform procedures.*
• Record and report changes in the client’s physical condition, behavior or appearance to Supervisor or Care Coordinator

Requirements:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• CNA/HHA/PCA certification
• Complete criminal background check, DMV check, and drug screen
• Access to a car
• Possess valid driver’s license and auto insurance
• Ability to communicate with clients in a courteous manner and treat them with respect
• 1-2 years working with the elderly

Duties:

• Grooming, bathing, dressing and toileting
• Assisting with shaving, only with the use of an electric shaver
• Assisting with feeding client providing the client can still independently swallow and be positioned upright
• Assisting with general skin care when skin is unbroken and when any chronic skin problems are not active. Skin care should be preventive rather than therapeutic in nature. *Caregivers may apply non-medicated lotions and solutions that do not require a physician’s prescription*
• Assisting with pivot transfers (bed to chair, chair to bed, chair to commode, and wheel-chair to car) only when the client has sufficient balance and strength to reliably stand, pivot and assist with the transfer.
• Adaptive and safety equipment may be used in transfers, provided the client and caregiver are fully trained in the use of equipment and can direct the transfer *Caregivers can assist with the use of gait belts and transfer devices with the proper training and demonstrated competency.*
• Empty or change external urinary and ostomy bags
• Assisting with client directed non-invasive (non-inserted) care only when there is no need for skilled skin care or for observation. Otherwise must be reported to a nurse
• Assisting client with blood sugar checks; that is limited to opening containers and handling equipment *Caregiver cannot perform procedures.*
• Companion/Homemaker duties
• Record and report changes in the client’s physical condition, behavior or appearance to Supervisor or Care Coordinator