Experienced ADL and Mobility Support Caregiver

Location: Franklin, Tennessee
Schedule: Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
Hours: 12:00 PM-5:30 PM
Weekly

Hours:

Approximately 16.5 hours
Position Type: Consistent, part-time home-care assignment

Helping Hearts is seeking a reliable, compassionate, experienced, and highly attentive caregiver to support a client in the Franklin area. This client requires full assistance with activities of daily living, including hands-on transfer assistance, and is considered a significant fall risk.

We need a caregiver who understands that fall prevention requires constant awareness, close supervision, careful assistance, and proactive safety measures throughout the entire shift.

The selected caregiver must be available to work all three scheduled days Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 12:00 PM to 5:30 PM. Consistent attendance is essential because the client depends on a stable routine and familiar caregivers.

The client also has a small dog in the home. Applicants must be comfortable entering and working in a home with a small household pet.

At Helping Hearts, caregiving is more than a job, it is a calling. We are looking for someone who will treat the client with dignity, patience, compassion, and respect while remaining actively engaged and focused on the client’s safety.

The caregiver will provide respectful, hands-on assistance with the client’s daily personal-care needs as outlined in the client’s care plan.

Responsibilities may include:

• Bathing or personal-hygiene assistance

• Dressing and undressing

• Grooming and oral-care support

• Toileting and incontinence care

• Mobility assistance

• Positioning and repositioning

• Safe transfer assistance

• Wheelchair and mobility-device assistance

• Meal preparation and hydration reminders

• General comfort and personal-care support

• Maintaining the client’s privacy and dignity during all care tasks

Care must be provided patiently and professionally without rushing the client. The caregiver must follow the established care plan and use only approved transfer techniques and equipment for which the caregiver has received proper training.

This client requires hands-on assistance with transfers. Applicants must have the physical ability and willingness to safely assist the client with transfers, including:

• Wheelchair to commode and commode to wheelchair

• Wheelchair to bed and bed to wheelchair

• Wheelchair to chair or other approved seating

• Sit-to-stand and stand-to-sit transfers

• Toileting-related mobility and clothing-management assistance

• Repositioning for safety, hygiene, and comfort

• Transfers using approved equipment when required by the care plan

Previous experience using a Hoyer lift, sit-to-stand lift, or other mechanical transfer equipment is preferred but not required. Applicants without this experience must be willing and able to complete all required hands-on training and demonstrate safe use of the equipment before independently performing mechanical-lift transfers.

During every transfer, the caregiver must:

• Explain the transfer process to the client

• Make sure the client is positioned correctly

• Properly position the wheelchair or commode

• Lock the wheelchair brakes before beginning

• Move footrests, cords, furniture, and other obstacles out of the way

• Clear and inspect the transfer area

• Use proper body mechanics

• Use approved transfer equipment when required

• Closely monitor the client’s balance and comfort

• Move slowly and avoid rushing or pulling the client

• Stop immediately if the transfer becomes unsafe

Transfers must never be rushed or attempted in an unsafe manner. The caregiver must follow the…