Attendant​/Adult Care Partner - Kilgore, TX Location TBD

Attendant/Adult Care Partner - Kilgore, TX

Location: TBD

A Home Health company that really does “feel like family”! Home care is personal for us and we want caring qualified applicants to join our growing family.

Our Adult Care Partners (Attendants) provide services to maintain, strengthen and safeguard the client in their own home environment. Care is provided in accordance with the specified plan for the client. Gloves, mask and sanitizer are provided as requested. PAID WEEKLY!

Why join At Home Healthcare?

We believe great care begins by taking care of our employees. So, we’ll reward you with industry‑leading pay, benefits, training, continuous development opportunities and our unique culture of support. In addition, you will:

• Flexible schedules
• On‑call support 24/7
• Join an amazing team of like‑minded people

• Aiding with activities of daily living
• Assisting with shopping, errands & transportation
• Pick up prescriptions & assist with telehealth visits
• Meal preparation
• Providing companionship
• Personal care (bathing, toileting, grooming, feeding, etc.)
• Follow a plan of care
• Communicate professionally with families and your team

As an Attendant/Adult Care Partner, you tend to the daily needs of your clients and assist in making their lives as pleasant and independently driven as possible. You do more than just assist with meals, light housekeeping, bathing, toileting, grooming, dressing, running errands and escort. Those tasks are important, but you also provide companionship and build strong relationships with each client that last and make a difference.

Some aspects of this home care position are not easily accomplished, but the reward of happy clients is worth the effort. You will enjoy being able to make a difference in this caregiving position.

• Education: High school graduate/GED preferred
• Experience: Six months of working as a personal attendant preferred but not required
• Skills: Must be competent to provide personal assistance services as demonstrated by experience or testing. Must possess strong interpersonal skills, a compassionate attitude, patience, empathy, and integrity.
• Transportation: Reliable transportation and, if driving, valid and current driver’s license and auto liability insurance.

Works in a home environment under various conditions and temperatures; clients might have pets; must be able to lift, transfer, and support clients who may be overweight or disabled; must be able to move about in the home, stand for prolonged periods of time. Some exposure to unpleasant weather; exposure to stressful situations related to interpersonal contact with clients and their family, as well as for meeting deadlines so must remain calm and courteous;

may be exposed to infections, blood, and/or bodily fluids so will use Standard Precautions.

• Prolonged sitting required, with the ability to operate office equipment which may include heavy lifting, bending, and standing.
• Requires the ability to handle stressful situations in a calm and courteous manner at all times. If required to make patient visits, prolonged standing and walking required, with the ability to lift up to 50 lbs. and move patients.
• Requires working under some stressful conditions to meet deadlines and agency needs.
• Must have and maintain valid Driver’s License, and proof of current valid auto liability insurance.
• Requires ability to use up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently and/or up to 10 pounds continuously to move objects.
• Work deals mostly with areas such as preparing and reading data and figures, records, reports, visual inspection involving small details. Although important, depth perception and field of vision (peripheral) are not as critical as the ability to distinguish small details and markings very near to the observer.
• Requires ability to grasp, pull, push, carry or otherwise manipulate objects; ability to perform tasks requiring action of muscles or groups of muscles and foot and/or hand‑eye coordination.
• Requires ability to communicate…