URGENT! Caregiver for Weekend OVERNIGHT - COMPETITIVE SALARY

Senior Solutions (Senior Solutions At Home, Inc.); San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 19,286 - 20,664; Full time

Job summary

Senior Solutions At Home, Inc. is seeking a Weekend Overnight Caregiver for a 12-Hour Shift to provide compassionate overnight care in a home care setting. The role focuses on monitoring, personal care, and essential support for clients.

Responsibilities include vital signs, hygiene, mobility assistance, medication reminders, infection control, documentation, and coordination with the agency. Weekend availability and adherence to the Plan of Care are essential.

Qualifications

• Obtain vital signs and report deviations.
• Assist with personal hygiene, grooming and skin care.
• Support mobility and transfers for safe patient handling.
• Provide medication reminders and observe for changes.
• Document care activities per Plan of Care.

Responsibilities

• Obtain vital signs, record them, and notify the office of deviations according to standard practice.
• Personal hygiene and grooming tasks during overnight shifts.
• Nail care and oral hygiene assistance as needed to facilitate treatment.
• Ambulation, transfers, and assistance with toilet/commode use.
• Medication reminders and infection control adherence.

Job description

Weekend Overnight Caregiver - 12-Hour Shift

Pay: $15 for CNA and $14 for Non-licensed

We are seeking dedicated individuals who are passionate about providing compassionate care and support to our clients during their overnight hours.

Responsibilities

• Obtain vital signs, record them, and notify the office of deviations according to standard practice.
• Personal hygiene: bathing, grooming, dressing, hair care, shaving, deodorant application, skin care with lotions and/or powder, foot care, and ear care. Q-tips are not to be used.
• Nail care and oral hygiene, are needed to facilitate treatment or prevent deterioration. (Nail cutting or filing will NOT be done)
• Changing bed linens and making the bed.
• Eating and maintaining adequate nutrition and fluid intake when appropriate.
• Ambulation and transfers (e.g., assisting patients to the toilet/commode or with bedpans and with elimination needs, assisting patients in and out of bed, assisting with ambulation, and assisting with other transfers and positional needs as appropriate).
• Incidental household services essential to patient health care, such as light housekeeping, straightening room, and laundry.
• Medication reminders.
• Understand and apply basic infection control principles and procedures; contact the supervisor with any concerns related to infection control.
• Follow the Plan of Care (Instruction Sheet) as instructed by the Agency's health care professional.
• Document appropriately according to the Plan of Care and submit all documentation per agency policy.
• Observe physical and gross behavioral changes in the patient's condition or family situation and report to the office.
• Follow the visit schedule and indicate changes in the schedule as appropriate.
• Promptly contact patients and the office whenever unable to visit a patient as scheduled and give a full report concerning patient care, visit times, etc.
• Communicate appropriately with patient/family and Agency personnel.
• Attend required in-services and meetings as identified by the Agency (must have 12 hours of in-service per year).
• Adhere to the Agency's Policies and Procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Participate in Performance Improvement activities as indicated.