Care Professional - Casual

Choice in Aging; Pleasant Hill (CA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 52,000; Part time

Job summary

Choice in Aging seeks a Care Professional - Casual to support and lead program activities for frail elders and adults with disabilities. Under supervision, you will assist with daily living tasks, monitor safety, and document client wellbeing.

You will work within a mission-driven team to help clients age with dignity in the community. You will engage participants in activities, build trusting relationships, and ensure respectful, confidential care while maintaining a clean, safe program

Qualifications

• Must be able to communicate clearly both verbally and in written English.
• Must be able to loudly project voice and articulate clearly for hearing impaired clients.
• Must be able to work as a team member.

Responsibilities

• Lead and assist with program activities, encourage participant participation with recognition, respect and trust.
• Provide care that respects each individual’s uniqueness and personhood.
• Promote environment that fosters personal worth, agency, social confidence and hope.
• Build one-on-one relationships with participants based on respect.
• Understand each participant’s likes, interests, background and family history.
• Engage participants with constructive conversation and companionship.
• Assist with activities of daily living (toileting, feeding, ambulating, transferring, grooming, hygiene).
• Provide safety supervision, emotional support, and behavior management when needed.
• Maintain a clean program area and complete assigned cleaning duties.
• Assist with food preparation, serving meals, refreshments and cleanup.
• Complete client documentation (progress narratives, flow sheets, logs).
• Ensure confidentiality in all client care matters.

Skills

Verbal communication

Written English

Teamwork

Voice projection

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Under the supervision of the Activity Coordinator and the direction of the Program Director, the Care Professional - Casual leads and assists with program activities, assists fellow staff to attend to the physical and social needs of clients in the program and completes documentation regarding participant daily interactions and physical wellbeing. In addition, the Care Professional - Casual works as a member of the Choice in Aging (CiA) team providing health and social services to frail elders and adults with disabilities to meet CiA’s mission to create opportunities where people can learn, grow and age independently with dignity in community.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Lead, engage and assist with program activities, encouraging client participation by implying recognition, respect and trust.
• Provide care which respects and values the uniqueness of the individual.
• Seek to maintain and restore the personhood of individuals through the creation of an environment that promotes personal worth, agency, social confidence and hope.
• Build relationships with each individual participant, resulting in a one on one relationship based on respect.
• Take an active role to understand each participant’s likes, interests, background, family history and dislikes.
• Interact with participants involving good, constructive, beneficial conversation and companionship.
• Assist clients with (non-instrumental) activities of daily living including toileting, feeding, ambulating, transferring, clothing, grooming, and personal hygiene.
• Provide safety supervision, emotional support, and when necessary, behavior management for participants.
• Participate in maintaining a clean program area in general and specific cleaning duties as assigned.
• Assist with preparation of food (cutting/pureeing/thickening/plating), serving meals, refreshments and clean-up.
• Complete client documentation as assigned including progress narratives, flow sheets, toileting logs, and staff communication logs.
• Ensure confidentiality in all matters of client care.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Minimum Qualifications

• Have a high school diploma or equivalent.
• Clear TB test, must pass the Livescan fingerprint background check.
• Must be able to communicate clearly both verbally and in written English.
• Must be able to loudly project voice and articulate clearly when necessary for hearing impaired clients.
• Must be able to work as a team member.

Typical Physical Demands

Have the ability to:

• Safely and physically assist with toileting participants.
• Have the ability to physically respond quickly to participant needs.
• Hear and respond to buzzer sounds for assistance in the bathroom.
• See participants in the program in order to observe and respond to needed assistance.
• Speak clearly and with volume for hearing impaired participants.
• Be able to push, pull, move, and assist with transferring adult participants.
• Have the ability to transfer a maximum of 50 pounds.

Please Note

Being fully vaccinated means that an individual is at least two weeks past their final dose of an authorized COVID-19 vaccine regimen. Final candidates must be fully vaccinated as of their first day of employment.

Choice in Aging is an Equal Opportunity Employer.