Home Health Homemaker/Companion

Job Description

Job Description

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Flexible schedule
• Training & development

Companion:

• Provide companionship and accompany the client to doctors appointments, recreational outings, or shopping.
• Provide light housekeeping tasks such as preparation of a meal or laundering the client's personal garments.

Homemaker:

• Perform household tasks and maintain the home in an optimum state of cleanliness and safety, depending on the client's and caregiver's resources and per the care/service plan.
• Perform the functions generally undertaken by the customary homemaker, including such duties as preparation of meals, laundry, shopping, household chores, and care of children.

Perform casual, cosmetic assistance, such as brushing the client's hair and assisting with make-up, filing and polishing nails but not clipping nails.
Stabilize the client when walking, as needed, by holding the client's arm or hand.
If requested by the client or his responsible party, the homemaker or companion may verbally remind the client that it is time to for the client to take his or her medicine.
Respect and protect the clients rights including refusal of services, confidentiality, and privacy.