Grand Saline, Tx - Attendant / Caregiver

At Home Healthcare; Grand Saline (TX); On-site; USD 16,531 - 20,664; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly pay

Provided gloves and sanitizer

Job summary

A local home health service in Grand Saline, TX is seeking an Attendant/Caregiver to assist clients with daily living activities and ensure safety compliance. Candidates should possess a cheerful demeanor, the ability to support coworkers, and meet physical demands. This role offers paid weekly with training requirements. Join a family-style culture in providing in-home care.

Qualifications

• Requires pleasant demeanor and helpful attitude.
• Ability to support and mentor coworkers.
• Capability to understand and execute instructions.
• Must complete required training.
• Ability to lift and move clients as needed.

Responsibilities

• Assist client with daily living activities.
• Supervise client for safety.
• Maintain compliance with policies and regulations.
• Report changes in client’s behavior or environment.
• Monitor client’s safety and eliminate hazards.

Skills

Cheerful demeanor

Ability to cooperate and mentor

Understanding of detailed instructions

Ability to recognize sounds

Patience and tact

Physical capability

Job description

Overview

Join At Home Healthcare as an Attendant / Caregiver in Grand Saline, Tx. This home health company emphasizes a family-style culture and provides care in the client’s home. Gloves, mask and sanitizer are provided. Paid weekly.

Responsibilities

• Assists client in activities of daily living including personal hygiene requirements in accordance with specific assignments provided by supervisor.
• Supervises client during activities to enable client to function safely.
• Maintains compliance with all At Home Health policies, procedures and guidelines as stated now or as amended; maintains compliance with all state and federal laws and regulatory requirements.
• Immediately reports to supervisor all significant changes in client’s environment, behaviors, and circumstances.
• Monitors the client’s environment for safety hazards and takes appropriate actions to eliminate hazards or report potential hazards to supervisor.

Qualifications

• Requires a pleasant and cheerful demeanor and an attitude of helpfulness when encountering stressful situations.
• Ability to cooperate with others and encourage, mentor, and support fellow workers on a daily basis.
• Personal assistance services, as defined in TAC 40 Chapter 97
• 97.2, may be performed by an unlicensed person who is at least 18 years of age and has demonstrated competency, when competency cannot be determined through education and experience, to perform the tasks assigned by the supervisor.
• As determined by competency checklist at attendant orientation.
• Requires ability to understand and carry out detailed oral and written instructions.
• Completes and/or meets required training requirements.
• Requires ability to use up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and up to 10 pounds of force continuously to move objects and/or people.
• Position requires bending, stooping, twisting, turning, reaching, lifting, carrying, pulling, pushing, climbing, kneeling, walking, and standing over 75% of shift.
• Sitting requirements approximately 25% of the time.
• Standing/stooping/bending/climbing requirements approximately 55% of the time.
• Walking requirements approximately 20% of the time.
• Requires ability to recognize differences in sounds, such as voices or noises that are loud and playful instead of angry and combative.
• Requires ability to exercise patience, tact, initiative, judgment, and confidentiality (following established guidelines).
• Work under minimal supervision with awareness that error may have serious consequences.
• Requires ability to recognize changes in a client’s appearance, attitude, and condition.