Live-in Caregivers Dementia

Live-in Caregivers with Dementia Experience

Description: This position provides custodial and personal care services to clients that contract with Assisting Hands for services under the direction of the Staffing Coordinator in compliance with the Plan of Care.

Education: High School Diploma/GED required

Qualifications: One (1) year experience in the home or long-term care setting is preferred.

Reports to: Staffing Coordinator

Primary Duties:

• Maintaining a clean, safe, and healthy environment within client’s residence, including light cleaning, straightening of bathrooms, sleeping and living areas, washing dishes or laundry, and other tasks to maintain cleanliness and safety.
• Performing all personal care activities contained in a written Plan of Care, which may include assisting the client with personal hygiene, ambulation and exercise, eating, dressing, shaving, physical transfer, and other duties as assigned.
• Providing nutritional support as needed.
• Reporting changes in the client’s condition.
• Assisting with the use of devices for aid to daily living such as a wheelchair, walker, or Hoyer lift.
• Assisting with prescribed range of motion exercises.
• Teaching household routine and skills to well members of the family.
• Measuring intake and output of fluids.
• Measuring and recording temperature, pulse, respiration or blood pressure.
• Keeping records of personal health care activities.
• Observing appearance and gross behavioral changes in the client and reporting to the agency supervisor.
• Assisting the client with the self‑administration of medication, limited to the following tasks:
  • Taking the medication in its previously dispensed, properly labeled container, from where it is stored and bringing it to the client.
  • In the presence of the client, reading the label, opening the container, removing a prescribed amount of medication from the container, and closing the container.
  • Placing an oral dosage in the client’s hand or in another container and helping the client by lifting the container to his or her mouth.
• Returning the medication container to proper storage.
• Keeping a record of when a client receives assistance with self‑administration of medication.
• Preparing necessary items such as juice, water, cups, or spoons to assist the client in the self‑administration of medication.
• Opening and closing the medication container or tearing the foil of prepackaged medications.
• Assisting the client in the self‑administration process, including steadying the arm, hand, or other parts of the client’s body to allow self‑administration.
• Abiding by the agency’s infection control policies, including proper hand washing techniques consistent with CDC Guidelines.
• Abiding by all policies and procedures outlined in the agency’s Policy and Procedure Manual, Caregiver Handbook, and Caregiver Training Manual.

Hours: Dependent on assignment; shifts available 24 hours a day, 7 days per week and based on availability. Assisting Hands does not guarantee hours.

FLSA Status: Non‑exempt, hourly

Compensation: $170/day - $180/day

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Benefits:

• Mileage/Travel Time Reimbursements
• Referral bonus for new clients & caregivers
• Flexible schedules
• More!