Compassionate Caregiver for Vulnerable Individuals

5 days ago

Santa Cruz, California, United States Aveanna Healthcare Full time
Job Description:

Aveanna Healthcare is a dynamic and innovative organization that provides exceptional care services to individuals with special needs.

Salary: $40,000 - $60,000 per annum (dependent on experience and location)

Company Overview:

Aveanna Healthcare has experienced significant growth through strategic acquisitions, and we are now seeking an Agency Respite Care Provider to join our team. This role will involve providing non-medical personal care, assistance, and companionship to clients who require supervision due to developmental disabilities, intellectual deficiencies, or other health-related conditions.

Responsibilities:
  • Assistance with clients' Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), including ambulation, transfers, and gait assistance
  • Provides hands-on and/or stand-by assistance to ensure client safety while transferring and ambulating (including assistance with the proper use of ambulation aids, such as walkers, wheelchairs, gait belts, etc.)
  • Grooming and Hygiene: Provides client hands-on and/or stand-by assistance with general hygiene and other grooming activities (washing hands & face, etc.)
  • Meal Preparation/Nutritional Support: Follows nutritional and meal planning guidelines to assist with preparation and serving of breakfast, lunch, dinner, and/or snacks to ensure proper nutritional intake
  • Dressing: Provides hands-on and/or stand-by assistance with changes of client's clothing as needed
  • Toileting: May include assisting on/off toilet or commode; assisting with use of urinal or bedpan; changing diapers/briefs; and ensuring cleanliness as needed
  • Engages client in appropriate conversations (caregiver is to avoid personal disclosures about self, and discussions about client's family)
  • If parents request, teach, train, and encourage client to perform tasks and learn skills as directed
  • Entertains client by reading newspapers or books, playing memory games, completing puzzles, etc.
  • Follow parent instructions in working and dealing with client's behavioral issues, i.e., re-direction, avoidance, withdrawal, and aggression
Requirements:
  • Previous experience working with the disabled population
  • Physical and mental ability to perform essential functions of the position, including but not limited to, the ability to safely lift, turn, and transfer weight up to 50 pounds
  • Possess basic math, reading, and writing skills
  • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
  • Proper hygiene and appropriate dress at all times
  • CPR/First Aid as required by program
  • Must have available, reliable transportation, valid driver's license, and acceptable MVR
  • Must be able to read 12-point or larger type
  • Must be able to hear and speak in a manner understood by most people
  • 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 50 pounds
  • Must be able to carry bundles weighing up to 10 pounds up stairs
  • Must be able to function in a wide variety of environments, which may involve exposure to allergens and other various conditions
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Completion of high school diploma or equivalent preferred
Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action:

Aveanna provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Aveanna complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.

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