Home Care Aid

Job Description

Job Description

New life home healthcare is looking for compassionate, respectful home-care providers to join our growing team of caregivers. As home care aid caregivers with our company, you will provide essential services to homebound elderly clients or patients with disabilities, chronic illnesses or other health issues. Our ideals candidate is patient independent and self-sufficient who enjoys taking care of others and loves people our home care company requires a caring and compassionate home care aid to work with a variety of patients in the members of South Carolina the home care aide will be responsible for accompanying the patients to local doctor's visits assisting patients with personal care and health monitoring and helping maintain the home environment for each patient

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

responsibilities

· Provide Home Care Services for patients’ residents

· Medication reminders

· Assist with client’s personal care activities that include bathing, dressing, grooming and eating

· Assist with transportation and accompany patients to doctor's offices or hospital

· Assist patients with mobility in physical therapy/exercises

· Assisting the patient in out of bed, to the restroom, wheelchairs in and out of car

· Assist with the loading and unloading groceries in the car from the grocery shopping

· Responsible for recognizing correcting or reporting safety hazards to the supervisor

· Possessive high school diploma or equivalent

· The ability to pass HCA tests and skills or possess a CNA/CMA

· Ability to read comprehend written instructions

· Possess reliable transportation, car ownership, valid driver's license, proof of car insurance.

· Ability to understand instructions in the patient’s home in person or over the phone

· A respectful, patient, positive minded individual

· Ability to lift up-to 50 lbs.

· Must be available to work on the schedule that includes occasional weekends holidays or evenings