Weekend Caregiver in Tremonton

Assisting Hands Home Care; Tremonton (UT); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a dedicated team providing essential custodial and personal care services to clients in a supportive environment. This role involves maintaining cleanliness, assisting with daily living activities, and ensuring the well-being of clients under the guidance of a Staffing Coordinator. With flexible shifts available, you will play a vital role in enhancing the quality of life for individuals in need. If you are compassionate, reliable, and ready to make a difference, this is the perfect opportunity for you to contribute to your community while gaining valuable experience in the caregiving field.

Benefits

401(k)

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Qualifications

• 1 year experience in home or long-term care preferred.
• High School Diploma/GED required.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a clean and safe environment within the client's residence.
• Assist clients with personal hygiene and daily living activities.
• Report changes in the client’s condition to the supervisor.

Skills

Personal Care

Communication

Time Management

Education

High School Diploma/GED

Job description

Benefits:

1. 401(k)
2. Dental insurance
3. Health insurance
4. Vision insurance

Description: This position provides custodial and personal care services to clients that contract with Assisting Hands for services under the direction of the Staffing Coordinator in compliance with the Plan of Care.

Education: High School Diploma/GED required.

Qualifications: One (1) year experience in the home or long-term care setting is preferred.

Reports to: Staffing Coordinator.

Primary Duties:

1. Maintaining a clean, safe, and healthy environment within client’s residence, including light cleaning and straightening of the bathroom, sleeping and living areas, washing client's dishes or laundry, and other tasks to maintain cleanliness and safety for the client.
2. The performance of all personal care activities contained in a written Plan of Care, which may include assisting the client with personal hygiene, ambulation and exercise, eating, dressing, shaving, physical transfer, and other duties as assigned.
3. Providing nutritional support as needed.
4. Reporting changes in the client’s condition.
5. Other activities that are determined necessary and trained on for a specific client, including:
1. Assisting with the use of devices for aid to daily living such as a wheelchair, walker, or hoyer lift;
2. Assisting with prescribed range of motion exercises;
3. Teaching household routine and skills to well members of the family;
4. Measuring intake and output of fluids;
5. Measuring and recording temperature, pulse, respiration or blood pressure;
6. Keeping records of personal health care activities;
7. Observing appearance and gross behavioral changes in the client and reporting to the agency supervisor.
6. Assisting the client with the self-administration of medication, limited to the following tasks:
1. Taking the medication in its previously dispensed, properly labeled container, from where it is stored and bringing it to the client.
2. In the presence of the client, reading the label, opening the container, removing a prescribed amount of medication from the container, and closing the container.
3. Placing an oral dosage in the client's hand or placing the dosage in another container and helping the client by lifting the container to his or her mouth.
4. Returning the medication container to proper storage.
5. Keeping a record of when a client receives assistance with self-administration of medication.
7. The caregiver may also provide the following assistance with self-administered medication, as needed by the client:
1. Preparing necessary items such as juice, water, cups, or spoons to assist the client in the self-administration of medication;
2. Opening and closing the medication container or tearing the foil of prepackaged medications;
3. Assisting the client in the self-administration process, including the steadying of the arm, hand, or other parts of the client's body to allow the self-administration of medication.
8. Abides by the agency’s infection control policies, including proper hand washing techniques consistent with CDC Guidelines.
9. Abides by all policies and procedures outlined in the agency’s Policy and Procedure Manual, Caregiver Handbook, and Caregiver Training Manual.

Hours: Dependent on assignment; Shifts available 24 hours a day, 7 days per week and based on availability. Assisting Hands does not guarantee hours.

Must be able to work: Part-time 24-30 hrs a week Saturday & Sunday 10am-6pm - Tremonton Monday thru Friday availability 9am-4pm. Split between Brigham City & Garland UT.

Salary: $14-$16 an hour.

FLSA Status: Non-exempt, hourly.