Attendant/Adult Care Partner - Point,TX Job Point Texas USA,Healthcare

Location: Point

Attendant/Adult Care Partner - Point, TX

Location TBD

Job Overview 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! Benefits

Flexible Schedules
Have on call support 24/7
Join an amazing team of like-minded people

Responsibilities (will vary by client)

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

A Day in the life of an Attendant/ Adult Care Partner

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. Yes, those tasks are important, but you also provide companionship and build strong relationships with each client that are lasting 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 have come to see your clients like family and sympathize with their sorrows and rejoice in their happiness. Seeing your clients smile from the guidance care, and compassion you show to them is PRICELESS. You will enjoy being able to make a difference in this caregiving position.

Job

Qualifications

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.

Environmental/Working Conditions

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.

Physical, Mental, Miscellaneous Demands

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 clearly and make self-understood effectively in face-to-face interactions; articulate with accuracy to communicate using phone.

Requires ability to hear…

Attendant​/Adult Care Partner - Point, TX

Attendant/Adult Care Partner - Point, TX