Caregiver/Personal Care Assistant Part Time

Overview

This position is for the Lenoir City area, totaling 25 hours per week, with additional hours available to candidates willing to commute to Knoxville. As a Caregiver/Personal Care Assistant, you’ll provide respectful, hands-on support that helps clients and residents maintain comfort, safety, and independence. You may work in home care, home and community care, assisted living, group homes, nursing homes, or long-term care settings. Your impact: Attentive personal care and patient monitoring help individuals and their families feel supported and informed.

Duties

• Assist with activities of daily living (ADLs), personal care, mobility, and safe transfers; use a Hoyer lift and other equipment when trained and appropriate.
• Follow care plans, observe changes in condition, monitor vital signs as assigned, and communicate updates clearly to clients, residents, and the care team.
• Support medication administration within your authorized role and follow privacy requirements, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and residents’ rights.
• Prepare meals, cook, light housekeeping
• Deliver compassionate senior care, geriatrics, dementia, Alzheimer’s, memory, hospice, disability, and home health support, adapting care to each person’s needs.

Qualifications- Preferred but Not Required

• Patient care, caregiving, direct support, client communication, and patient observation skills; experience assisting people with disabilities, autism, developmental or intellectual disabilities, or neurodevelopmental disorders is valuable.
• Experience in home care, home and community care, assisted living, group homes, nursing homes, or long-term care is welcome.
• Knowledge of manual handling, patient transfer methods, heavy lifting, patient monitoring, and vital signs is helpful.
• First aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills are preferred. Nursing experience and familiarity with care plans and medication administration are also valued.
• Demonstrate patience, respect, reliability, and a commitment to safe, person-centered care.

Office phone: (931) 723-3770 ext. 126

Qualifications

- Must be 18 years old

- Valid driver’s license

- Car insurance

- Social Security card

- Pass background check

- Pass drug screening

All qualified applicants will receive consideration from contract without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

Pay: $15.00 - $16.00 per hour

Benefits

• Flexible schedule
• Referral program

Shift availability

* Day Shift (Required)

Work Location: In person