Caregiver/Personal Care Assistant

Job Overview

As a Caregiver/Personal Care Assistant, you’ll provide attentive, respectful support that helps clients and residents maintain comfort, dignity, and daily routines. Work may take place in home care, home and community care, group homes, assisted living, nursing homes, or long-term care settings. Relevant experience in senior care, geriatrics, hospice care, or Alzheimer’s, dementia, and memory care is valuable. Your impact: By following care plans and observing changes in condition, you help clients, residents, and families receive consistent, responsive care.

Duties

• Assist with activities of daily living (ADLs), personal care, meal preparation, cooking, cleaning, and personal transportation assistance.
• Provide direct support to people with autism, developmental or intellectual disabilities, neurodevelopmental disorders, and other disabilities.
• Monitor clients and residents, observe and report changes, check vital signs as assigned, and support medication administration within your authorized scope.
• Use safe manual handling, patient transfer methods, and equipment such as Hoyer lifts; follow guidance for heavy lifting.
• Communicate respectfully with clients, families, and care teams; protect privacy under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and uphold residents’ rights.

Qualifications

• Patient care, caregiving, client communication, and patient personal care assistance skills; experience with patient observation and monitoring.
• First aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) knowledge or certification, as required for the role.
• Experience in home health, home care, assisted living, group homes, nursing homes, or long-term care is helpful.
• Familiarity with care plans, nursing support, medication administration, vital signs, and safe transfers is preferred.
• Compassion, reliability, and respect for each person’s choices and dignity.

Pay: $15.00 per hour

Expected hours: No more than 40.0 per week

Benefits

• Flexible schedule
• Mileage reimbursement
• Referral program

Work Location: In person