Homemaker

Addus HomeCare; Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 17,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Addus HomeCare in Florida seeks a Homemaker to provide non-medical support to clients, helping maintain independence with light housekeeping, meal support, errands, and companionship.

Duties include following care plans, ensuring safety, social engagement, and documentation; must have high school diploma or GED and at least one year of homemaker experience; HIV and ADRD training preferred.

We offer equal opportunity employment and a supportive team in a client-home environment.

Qualifications

• Empathetic attitude toward clients
• Ability to read and write English
• Satisfactory completion of Agency qualifying exam
• High school diploma or GED preferred

Responsibilities

• Follows all written instructions within client plans and agency policies.
• Provides socialization and emotional reassurance to clients.
• Promotes well-being through reading, games, and activities.
• Ensures safety per health and safety guidelines; identifies hazards.
• Provides escort services to appointments, errands, and shopping.
• Assists with home management, errands, and grocery shopping.
• Performs light housekeeping: dishes, surfaces, laundry, and linens.
• Aids with nutrition and hydration through meal/or snack prep.
• Encourages personal hygiene and daily exercise.
• Documents promptly in client records and notifies of changes.
• Attends in-service trainings.

Skills

Empathetic attitude

English literacy

Education

High school diploma or GED

Agency qualifying exam

Job description

Job Summary

Homemakers provide general assistance to clients to help maintain independent living such as: light housekeeping, home management, socialization and companionship, family support and errands. This level of care doesn't require hands on services.

Homemakers provide general assistance to clients to help maintain independent living such as: light housekeeping, home management, socialization and companionship, family support and errands. This level of care doesn't require hands on services.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Follows all written instructions as determined by client/responsible parties within limits of the Agency's policies for homemaker as written on the service plan.
• Provides socialization, conversation and emotional reassurance to the client.
• Encourages and participates in reading, appropriate games, and other activities to promote well-being and stimulate the mind and the spirit.
• Provides for safety by using the principles of health and safety in relation to self and client, as follows:
  • Identifies and report safety hazards
  • Follows assigned safety precautions
  • Practices health protection and cleanliness by appropriate techniques of hand washing, waste disposal and household tasks
• Provides escort services, such as accompanying the client to scheduled appointments, shopping or errands.
• Take care of pets and water the plants.
• Encourages and supervises the maintenance of clean and healthy environment.
  • Assist with home management i.e. monitoring food expirations, assist with mail, order groceries/home supplies
• Provides housekeeping duties such as:
  • Kitchen (washing dishes, wiping/disinfecting sinks and countertops)
  • Bathroom (wiping/disinfecting sinks, countertops, tubs and toilets)
  • Bedroom (bed making/changing linen)
  • Laundry (light personal laundry: washing, drying, folding, ironing, putting away)
  • Light vacuuming and dusting
  • Change linens on clients unoccupied bed
• Assists the client to achieve or maintain adequate nutrition and hydration by assisting with grocery shopping, simple meal or snack preparation.
• Encourages/supervises appropriate personal hygiene
• Reminds and encourages daily exercise
• Empty urinals and bedside commodes
• Medications: provides timely medication reminds and reports concerns to supervisor
• Works with client and family with maturity, compassion, empathy, and confidentiality at all times
• Notifies the office of any change in the clients status or home environment or an emergency
• Notifies the office in a timely manner of the need for cancellation or change in coverage
• Completes documentation promptly and legibly in the appropriate section of the client record
• Attends all in-service training

Physical Requirements

• Regularly required to sit, stand and walk on variable surfaces
• Regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and talk or hear
• Occasionally required to reach beyond mid-line of body overhead/chest level
• Occasionally use hand controls including grip using one or both hands
• Occasionally climb ramps or stairs or use foot controls
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, distance and peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus
• Employees are required to utilize universal safety precautions while performing their job tasks
• Ability to lift, push, pull and carry a minimum of 50lbs
• Ability to stoop and bending up to 2.5 hours per 8 hour shift

Education/Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED equivalent preferred
• Satisfactory completion of Agency qualifying exam
• One (1) year current experience (within past five (5) years) as a homemaker in the home healthcare setting
• Possesses an empathetic attitude towards clients
• Ability to read and write English
• Successful completion of state required basic homemaker training in accordance with FAC 59A-8,0095(12)
• Must have current HIV training and ADRD training

Addus provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Employee wellbeing is top priority at Addus Homecare, and we're thrilled to announce our recognition as the top healthcare company on Indeed's 2024 Top 100 Work Wellbeing Index. View the full rankings here: https://www.indeed.com/employers/work-wellbeing/work-wellbeing-100-ranking.

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