Job Description
Arise Support Services LLC is a Home Health and Program Approved Services Agency (PASA). We are a clinically owned and operated Home Health Care company, focused on prioritizing patient care above everything else. We are looking for an experienced Personal Care Worker to join our team.
A Personal Care Worker’s Job Responsibilities:
- Maintain a tidy home environment that ensures the safety and wellbeing of the client.
- Stay on top of household chores, including meal preparation, cleaning, and laundry.
- Help with activities such as shopping, transportation, and scheduling appointments.
- Provide excellent companionship in the form of conversation, emotional reassurance, and coordination of mentally stimulating activities.
- Assist with activities of daily living. Activities may include skin care, ambulation, bathing, dressing, exercise, hair care, mouth care, positioning, shaving, bladder and bowel care, transfers, medication reminders, and more.
- Provide thorough notes regarding service provision during each visit.
- Possess a deep understanding of delineation of care worker roles. Be able to quickly identify scenarios that call for more skilled care or medical treatment.
- Quickly report any deterioration in client’s mental or physical condition to supervisor.
- Maintain timely records of home visits.
- Provide standard infection control precautions, basic first aid, and home safety.
- Attend periodic educational sessions (normally 6 sessions per year).
- Participate in care coordination conferences, staff meetings, and agency committee meetings.
- Perform other related functions as needed.
- Maintain confidentiality in all aspects of job performance.
- Comply with all applicable laws, regulations, and standards.
Compensation is highly competitive depending on experience.
PCW Skills and Qualifications:
- At least 18 years of age.
- Possesses a high school diploma or GED.
- Able to communicate and understand communication effectively in exchanges between the client, family representatives, and other providers.
- Working knowledge of principles and procedures for personal care in a home setting.
- Comfort in dealing with sensitive family issues and issues related to the aging process. Click the link to apply