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Direct Care Worker (Dcw)

$11 per hour

Aveanna Healthcare LLC

Starting rate: $11 an hour

Qualifications:

  • 18 years of age or older required
  • Completion of High School Diploma or GED
  • Satisfactory performance on a competency evaluation and annual reevaluation
  • Must have available, reliable transportation to and from assignments
  • Completion of all health screenings
  • Satisfactory references and background screenings are obtained prior to hire

Responsibilities:

  • Helps the client to maintain good personal hygiene including bathing, grooming and dressing
  • Assists in maintaining a healthy, safe environment
  • Assist the client with meals.
  • Assists the client with transfers and ambulation with or without an assistive device
  • Provides medication reminders
  • Encourages the client to become as independent as possible according to the nursing care plan
  • Maintains client/family confidentiality at all times
  • Reports any change in client’s mental or physical condition or in the client’s home situation to the company
  • Performs routine housekeeping tasks as related to a safe and comfortable environment for the client.

Functional Abilities:

  • Must be able to stoop and bend
  • Must be able to travel to prospective clients’ residences
  • Must be able to safely lift, turn and transfer clients weighing up to 40 pounds

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