Home Care Aide Springfield MO

Advanced Technologies Home Care; Springfield (MO); On-site; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Vision, Dental insurance

Paid Time off and holiday pay

Flexible scheduling

Paid Travel

Short commute times

Job summary

A home care service provider in Springfield, Missouri, is seeking a dedicated Home Care Aide to assist clients in daily living activities, ensuring their comfort and safety at home. This role offers flexible scheduling and comprehensive benefits. Ideal candidates should have experience in direct patient care and the ability to lift patients safely. Join us in making a difference in the lives of our clients!

Qualifications

• Must be 18 years of age.
• Minimum one year of direct patient care experience preferred.
• Physically able to assist patients and lift up to 75 lbs.

Responsibilities

• Assist clients with daily living activities like bathing and grooming.
• Prepare meals and clean up afterwards.
• Assist with medications and mobility aids.
• Maintain a safe and clean home environment.

Skills

Direct patient care experience

Ability to lift 75 lbs

Experience with home care or nursing

Assistance with mobility aids

Job description

We offer our At Home Care family:

• Feel valued and truly appreciated for all your contribution

• Flexible scheduling to fit your lifestyle
• Medical, Vision, Dental insurance
• Bi-Weekly and Direct Deposit
• Top pay wage scale
• Paid Time off and holiday pay
• Paid Travel
• Home Health Aide education
• Short commute times – we try to match you to work opportunities near your home
• If you’re seeking a rewarding career in health care, At Home Care is the place for you! Our GREAT MANAGERS believe YOU matter and YOUR voice is heard

Job Purpose: The basic function of a Home Care Aide is to perform tasks that enable clients remain in their own homes and out of long-term care facilities for as long as possible. Help patients to complete activities of daily living that are difficult for them because of a physical or mental disability. Provide assistance with intermittent household task necessary to the maintenance of a safe and habitable home environment. The service is restricted to non-skilled tasks and the need for services is determined in relationships to the client’s functioning capacity.

*This role is suited for workers looking to be assigned clients or patients*

Job Responsibilities

• Planning, preparation and clean–up of meals
• Making beds and changing linens with the participants in or out of bed as required
• Brushing, combing, and shampooing hair
• Giving bed baths or assist with shower or tub bath
• Assist with oral care such as brushing teeth or denture care when participant is unable.
• Giving assistance to and from the bed to a wheelchair, walker or chair when a participant is weight bearing.
• Assisting the participants with ordinarily self-administered medications (open bottles, get water)
• Tidying and dusting the home;
• Cleaning kitchen counters, cupboards, and appliances, including oven, surface burners and fridge
• Laundering clothes and linens;
• Making beds and changing sheets;Sweeping and/or vacuuming, and mopping floors;
• Bagging trash inside the home and putting it out for pick-up;
• Shopping for essential items (e.g., groceries, cleaning supplies, etc.);
• Advance Personal Care-Assist with Ostomy Care, assist with catheter care, perform bowel programs, administer non-injectable meds, assist with Insulin set-up and perform vital signs and weights

Skills/Education

Home Care aide must be 18 years of age. A minimum of one year experience of direct patient care with either a Skilled Nursing facility or an In-Home Care Agency in preferred. Home Care Aide must be physically able to lift a minimum of 75 lbs. and be able to move patient without any assistance from the patient. Home Care Aide must also be able to help assist the patient with walking through use of a cane, walker or gait belt throughout the facility or client’s home.