In Home Caregiver

Job Summary

As an In Home Caregiver, you’ll provide respectful, attentive support to clients in their homes and communities. You’ll assist with daily routines, observe changes in well-being, and follow care plans while protecting each client’s privacy and rights. Your impact: Consistent, person-centered care helps clients maintain comfort, dignity, and independence while giving families greater confidence in their loved one’s daily support.

Responsibilities

• Assist with activities of daily living (ADLs), personal care, mobility, transfers, and safe manual handling; use a Hoyer lift when trained and directed.
• Prepare meals, cook, clean, and provide personal transportation assistance as assigned.
• Monitor clients, observe and report changes, check vital signs when required, and follow care plans and medication administration instructions within your authorized scope.
• Support older adults and people with Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, autism, intellectual or developmental disabilities, and other disabilities; provide memory care, hospice, and direct support as assigned.
• Communicate clearly with clients and care teams, respect residents’ rights, and safeguard health information under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

Skills

• Essential: Compassionate caregiving, patient care, patient observation and monitoring, client communication, assisting with ADLs, patient personal care assistance, meal preparation, cleaning, and safe patient transfer methods.
• Essential: Ability to follow care plans, maintain privacy, and perform assigned duties safely, including required lifting and manual handling.
• Preferred: Home care, home health, home and community care, senior care, geriatrics, assisted living, group home, nursing home, or long-term care experience.
• Preferred: Experience with Alzheimer’s care, memory care, dementia care, hospice care, nursing, direct support, autism, neurodevelopmental disorders, developmental disabilities, or disabilities.
• First aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills, vital signs experience, medication administration experience, and Hoyer lift experience are valued; follow applicable training and authorization requirements.

Pay: $12.00 - $15.00 per hour

Benefits

• Flexible schedule
• Mileage reimbursement
• Paid orientation
• Paid training

Shift availability

• Day Shift (Required)
• Night Shift (Required)
• Overnight Shift (Required)

Ability to Commute

* Birmingham, AL 35261 (Required)

Willingness to travel

* 25% (Preferred)

Work Location: In person