Caregiver

Job Description

Job Description

Benefits/Perks

• Flexible Scheduling
• Competitive Compensation
• Careers Advancement

Job Summary

We are seeking a Caregiver to join our team. In this role, you will make a difference in the lives of seniors and people with disabilities by enhancing their quality of life. Responsibilities include assisting with hygiene needs, light housekeeping and errands, dispensing medication, and other tasks that improve the client’s living environment and standards. The ideal candidate is patient, compassionate, and reliable.

 

Responsibilities 

• Assist with personal hygiene needs and dressing
• Assist with mobility, walking, and physical therapy exercises
• Prepare meals and snacks
• Light housekeeping activities
• Dispense medication
• Provide companionship
• Assist with errands and shopping

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a Caregiver, Home Health Aide, or similar role is preferred
• First aid and CPR-certified
• Knowledge of basic housekeeping tasks and cooking skills
• Ability to adhere to all health and safety guidelines
• Excellent communication and interpersonal spills
• Ability to lift heaving objects
• Compassionate, respectful, ethical

CAREGIVER JOB DESCRIPTION

The caregiver provides hands-on personal care to clients who are unable to care for
themselves. This includes providing assistance with clients’ activities of daily living,
including: personal care, maintaining mobility, nutrition/hydration, elimination/toileting,
using assistive devices, administering medications, managing the clients’ environment
and providing client safety, collecting data, observing, listening, recording and reporting.
The caregiver also provides assistance with clients’ instrumental activities of daily living
such as light housekeeping, laundry, cooking meals, grocery shopping, transportation to
appointments, and shopping. The caregiver may also be required to provide medication
reminding to clients.
Overall Purpose
To provide care and services to clients in their own homes. Most specifically, the
purpose of the position is to assist clients with their activities of daily living and
instrumental activities of daily living.
Responsibilities and Requirements
In the process of client care the caregiver shall consistently:
● Apply standard precautions according to the Centers for Disease Control
Prevention Guidelines;
● Use hand hygiene between episodes of care;
● Use appropriate body mechanics to prevent injury to self and client;
● Follow the client’s service plan;
● Use appropriate communication with client, client’s family and friends, and
coworkers;
● Report changes in client’s condition to the agency’s administrator or designee such
as any recognized abnormality in client’s signs and symptoms;
● Record observations and measurements, tasks completed, and client statements
about condition or care;
● Apply safety concepts in the client’s home;
● Report signs of abuse, neglect, mistreatment, misappropriation or exploitation;
● Demonstrate respect for the rights and property of clients and their families;
● Pass a criminal records check; and
● Maintain client confidentiality.
Working Conditions
The caregiver will work in clients’ homes within the agency’s geographic service area.
The caregiver will provide personal care including medication reminding and
housekeeping services to our clients as per the clients’ individual service plans and under
the supervision of the agency’s administrator. The caregiver may be required to work
different shifts, including night, evening or early morning shifts.

Caregiver Job Description
Physical Demands
The caregiver is often required to assist in lifting, transferring and stabilizing clients as
they stand, sit, climb (stairs) or walk. Caregivers are required to walk, stand, lift, pull,
push, carry, balance, bend, crouch, reach, handle, speak, hear, write, read and
communicate.

Minimum Requirements
The caregiver must:
● Be 18 years of age or older;
● Be able to communicate both orally and in writing to sufficiently perform their
tasks and duties and interact effectively with clients and agency staff;
● Be able to pass all screening tests, including but not limited to criminal records
and LEIE checks;
● Have proof of the ability to work legally in the U.S.A.; and
● Be able to successfully complete caregiver and medication training or have proof
of current certification by the Oregon State Board of Nursing as a nursing assistant
or medication aide in good standing.

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