Lead Caregiver w/ Guaranteed Hours

Lead Caregiver

If you are comfortable with a non-routine, varied schedule with numerous clients each week and are the "best of the best" providing care and companionship to older adults, we have a rewarding position for you. Apply only if you can live by our high standards of care and want to be challenged daily. If your purpose is to find a career that will help satisfy your desire to serve others, you will be fulfilled at Touching Hearts at Home as a Lead Caregiver. The Lead Caregiver provides crucial support to ensure our clients have the care they need if their regularly scheduled caregiver is sick or unavailable, and also ensures new clients are able to get care started without delay. In addition to providing care to clients, the Lead Caregiver assists with on-the-job training and peer mentoring and development of new members of our care team.

The Lead Caregiver must be available for assignments any time within a 13 hour shift, either days or nights. Weekends are not required but pay a premium hourly rate. Travel up to 45 minutes from our office in Kettering is required, so a valid driver's license, vehicle, and car insurance is a must.

Full time Lead Caregivers working 5 days/week are guaranteed pay for 40 hours per week minimum even if they are not placed in assignments for 40 hours. Part time Lead Caregivers working 3 days/week are guaranteed pay for 24 hours per week minimum even if they are not placed in assignments for 24 hours. Lead Caregivers receive premium pay in a range from $18/hr up to $20/hr, plus $3/hr additional on weekends.

We are a close knit team at Touching Hearts at Home, and we rely on each other to ensure our clients receive the highest quality home care possible. We hire only committed, professional individuals who love working with older adults and seniors. We do what we do because we want to make a positive impact on the lives of our clients and their families. We expect this same level of passion from every team member and offer premium pay for top performing team members. Our Lead Caregiver receives competitive pay, paid time off, health insurance, a retirement savings plan, daily access to pay, ongoing training, yearly bonuses, and a support team that values you and treats you with respect!

Touching Hearts at Home Dayton is a Best of Home Care Employer of Choice and Best of Home Care Provider of Choice every year since 2019 based on caregiver & client satisfaction ratings collected via telephone interviews by an independent satisfaction research firm - the only home care in the Dayton area to earn this rating five consecutive years - and we are a Great Place to Work-Certified company! We put our people first!

Touching Hearts at Home Dayton is also proud to be leading the way in how we approach dementia care education as the only Teepa Snow Positive Approach to Care (PAC) Designated Organization in all of Ohio. Our organization has taken steps to change the culture of dementia care that we offer. In accordance with the guidelines for Organization Designation provided by Positive Approach to Care we are growing our team of PAC Certified Independent Professionals to guide learning and skills. Join us, and be part of making a difference.

Pursuant to Ohio Rule 3701-60-06 for home health agencies, you will be required to provide a set of fingerprint impressions for a criminal records check to be conducted if under final consideration for employment. A criminal records check will be conducted as a condition of continued employment.