Custom Helpers Home Health Care
LPN/ Caregiver
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Job Summary
As an LPN/Caregiver, you’ll provide attentive nursing and daily living support to people with varied care needs. You’ll assess residents or clients, administer medications within your scope, document care, and communicate changes to the appropriate care team. The role may involve senior care, long-term care, assisted living, home and community care, or support for individuals with disabilities.
Your impact: Consistent, respectful care helps clients maintain comfort, safety, and dignity while giving families and care teams clear updates.
Duties
- Monitor vital signs and patient condition; complete assessments, intake, and accurate medical documentation in electronic health record (EHR) or electronic medical record (EMR) systems.
- Provide medication administration, first aid, catheter care, tube feeding, and other nursing tasks within your license, training, and care plan.
- Support personal care, mobility, nutrition, and activities; use equipment such as a Hoyer lift when trained and indicated.
- Follow infection control, clinical confidentiality, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and applicable long-term care regulations.
- Communicate with clients, caregivers, families, and clinicians; contribute to care coordination and discharge planning as appropriate.
Qualifications
- Active Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) license and current cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and basic life support (BLS) credentials, as required for the role.
- Patient care experience; long-term care, nursing home, skilled nursing facility, assisted living, home care, hospice, post-acute care, or geriatric experience is relevant.
- Demonstrated patient assessment, medication administration, caregiver communication, and medical records skills.
- Preferred: experience with Alzheimer’s, dementia, or memory care; developmental disabilities; acute care, hospital, emergency, intensive care unit (ICU), pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), or medical-surgical settings.
- Familiarity with Epic, Cerner, Athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, ICD-9/ICD-10, triage, phlebotomy, venipuncture, IV infusion or insertion, and other listed clinical specialties is helpful, not required.
- Willing to work 3-12 hour shifts 8a-8p, alternating weekends at least one weekend day required. Multiple positions open so please inquire for certain days.
Pay: $24.00 - $26.00 per hour
Expected hours: 30.0 – 40.0 per week
Work Location: On the road
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