Job Description
Job Description
Guardian Angel Senior Services
Our mission
To provide home care services with love, to enhance the quality of your living through our attentive yet subtle style of care, to maintain your dignity and your independence while serving your needs with honor and integrity. After all, is your home!
Caregiving is a significant responsibility that becomes more challenging as people age. Their needs tend to grow over time, making the caregiving process even more demanding. Guardian Angel Senior Services is looking for a Personal Care Aid who is a 5-Star Caregiver to provide light housekeeping and personal care services to the elderly and disabled in the comfort of their own homes.
Join our team and help take care of Elderly and Disabled individuals in the comfort of their own homes! Candidates will have flexible self-determined schedule options based on the clients available.
What we look for in a caregiver:
- Dependable: Arrives on time, ready to work. Maintains an unblemished attendance record. Demonstrates flexibility and willingness to fill vacant shifts when needed.
- Thorough: Attentively follows designated care-plans, taking care to understand client needs in order to address them. Updates Care Plans to reflect changes in client care and informs Management of same.
- Observant: Aware of a client's unique personal and medical history so as to recognize changes, whether behavioral, physical, social, or psychological as they pertain to a client's overall health and well-being.
- Clear & Concise: Communicates professionally, tactfully, and with discretion in verbal exchanges with the client, and family members. Records all activities and observations factually in the visit notes.
- Follow-Through: Communicates with Management, ensuring that all issues, updates, changes, and concerns are reported to the office in a timely fashion.
This job consists heavily of traveling from home to home to serve our senior clients that are in need of help, this job is for Caregiver that are willing to be responsible and reliable from day one.
- HHA/CNA – Home Health Aide assist clients in their own homes with activities of daily living, boosting their spirit and significantly improving their quality of life, delivering quality and safe home health care services, including personal care and homemaking.
- Personal Care - Personal Care services could include toileting, bathing, showering, dressing, grooming, assist with personal hygiene,
- Homemakers – Provide Light Housekeeping, run errands or provide transportation if needed. Prepare meals, purchase food and provide personal assistance with general living needs. shopping, menu planning, laundry, and the performance of general household tasks.
Qualifications:
At least 18 years old
Access to internet
Must have valid Driver's license
Must have reliable on hand Vehicle
Ability to write, read, and speak English fluently
Tech-savvy (Navigate digital app)
Physical Specifications
- Manual Tools: Hoyer lift, slide board, prosthesis, cane, walker, wheelchair
- Bending: Frequent bending is required to care for clients in their bed or chair
- Lifting: Frequent lifting of clients is required in transfer from bed to chair, chair to bed,
- Standing: Is required and may be up to 90 percent of employee time
- Walking: Is required for entry and mobility through client's home
- Climbing: Stair climbing is required in apartments and homes which may have several levels of stairs
Responsibility:
- Attends agency orientation, in-service education programs and staff meetings as required.
- Practices safety and competency within the job description.
- Communicates with the agency about problems and concerns.
- Complies with State/Federal regulatory acts and agency policies.
- Communicates with office staff regarding all scheduling of HM services to clients.
- Completes required documentation accurately and on a timely basis.
- Respects and maintains client confidentiality at all times.
- Reports concerns of client abuse or neglect.
- Wear personal protective equipment in accordance with training procedures.
- Documents in Communication Book
Caregiver Task:
Supervise and Assist in Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)
Assist Bathing, Dressing, Grooming, Toileting, Hygiene
Assisting with transferring (bed/chair), walking, and preventing falls.
Light housekeeping, laundry, and meal preparation
- Cleaning and changing bed linens
- Cleaning floors with mop and/or vacuuming
- Cleaning bathroom and kitchen
- Laundering and ironing client clothes
Grocery shopping, and running errands.
Providing social interaction, engaging in activities, and offering emotional support
Work site: The common work site location will be in the client's home. Each "home" will vary from client to client. The "home" varies due to the diverse client population. Clients' living space may range from small confined rooms to larger rooms on different levels. Also, clients' living spaces may be houses, apartments, mobile homes, or other variations.
Guardian Angel Senior Services of Leominster, MA is now hiring in-home Caregivers. **FREE HHA CERTIFICATION and TRAINING AVAILABLE** Salary: $17.00 - $20.00 Some Great Perks!
- **CREATE YOUR OWN SCHEDULE
- Sign on Bonus $$
- Referral Bonus $$
- Travel Pay $$ (Between Clients)
- Mileage Pay $$ (Between Clients and errands)
- Employee Discounts up to 60% off
- 401(k)
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Medical/Aflac Insurance (30+hrs average)
- Life insurance
- Paid accrued wellness time
- Professional development assistance
Please feel free to call the Hirring Coordinator Yuleisy Pena (Lacey) a call at 978-424-4552 for more information! Get started as soon as next week!
Guardian Angel Senior Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, or genetic information.