In Home Caregiver

Job description

About us

ZARA HOMECARE, LLC is a small business in Portland, OR. We are professional, agile and our goal is to Provide safe, effective and quality care and services to our clients to help them to function at their highest level; II. Value our clients, by providing them with safe, compassionate and respectful care and services; III. Provide individualized, client-directed care; and IV. Promote our clients’ well-being..

The caregiver provides hands-on personal care to clients who are unable to care for themselves. This includes providing assistance with clients' activities of daily living, including: personal care, maintaining mobility, nutrition/hydration, elimination/toileting, using assistive devices, administering medications, managing the clients' environment and providing client safety, collecting data, observing, listening, recording and reporting. The caregiver also provides assistance with clients' instrumental activities of daily living such as light housekeeping, laundry, cooking meals, grocery shopping, transportation to appointments, and shopping. The caregiver may also be required to provide medication reminding to clients

Responsibilities and Requirement

In the process of client care the caregiver shall consistently

Assist client with safe transfers (bed, wheelchair, toilet, chair, etc.) using proper techniques and equipment (e.g., gait belt, transfer board, Hoyer lift if applicable)

Apply standard precautions according to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention Guidelines;

Has experience with full transfer.

Use hand hygiene between episodes of care

Use appropriate body mechanics to prevent injury to self and client

Follow the client's service plan

Use appropriate communication with client, client's family and friends, and coworkers;

Report changes in client's condition to the agency's administrator or designee such as any recognized abnormality in client's signs and symptoms

Record observations and measur...