Mesquite, TX - Attendant/Caregiver

At Home Healthcare; Tyler (TX); On-site; USD 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid weekly

Job summary

A supportive home health company in Tyler, Texas, is seeking caring Attendants to provide personal care services for clients in their homes. Responsibilities include assisting clients with daily living activities and ensuring safety during those activities. Candidates should have a cheerful demeanor and be able to follow detailed instructions. The role involves physical activities such as lifting and walking, and requires a strong sense of responsibility and compassion for clients.

Qualifications

• Must be at least 18 years old and demonstrate competency.
• Capable of lifting or moving up to 50 pounds occasionally.
• Ability to follow training requirements.

Responsibilities

• Assist clients with daily living activities.
• Supervise clients to ensure safety.
• Report significant changes in client environment or behavior.

Skills

Pleasant and cheerful demeanor

Ability to encourage and mentor colleagues

Understanding of detailed instructions

Recognizing changes in client condition

Patience and tact

Job description

Come work for a Home Health company that really does “feel like family”! Home care is personal for us and we want caring, qualified applicants to join our growing family. Attendants provide services planned to maintain, strengthen, and safeguard the client in his/her own home environment. Provides care in accordance with the specified plan of care for client. Gloves, mask and sanitizer are provided. Paid weekly.

Join the At Home Healthcare team and become part of our caring family. For our exceptional caregivers and for our pediatric and community care patients, home care becomes deeply personal, unfolding within the comforting embrace of home. Explore the opportunities waiting for you – come home to At Home Healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Assists client in the 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.
• Maintain compliance with all At Home Health policies, procedures and guidelines as stated now or as amended. Maintain compliance with all state and federal laws and regulatory requirements.
• Immediately reports to supervisor all significant changes in client’s environment, behaviors, and circumstances.
• Responsible for monitoring client environment and identifying any potential safety hazards; takes appropriate actions to eliminate hazard or report potential hazard to supervisor.

Qualifications

• Requires a pleasant and cheerful demeanor, shows an attitude of helpfulness while encountering stressful situations.
• Will be required to effectively and efficiently carry out the duties of this position cooperation, and the ability to 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, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or 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/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.