Personal Caregiver / Personal Care Aide (PCA)

Job Overview

As a Personal Caregiver / Personal Care Aide (PCA), you’ll provide respectful, person-centered support that helps clients maintain comfort, dignity, and independence at home or in a care setting. You’ll assist with daily routines, observe changes in well-being, and communicate clearly with clients and care teams. Your impact: By following care plans and promptly sharing observations, you help clients and their families make informed decisions and support safer, more consistent care.

Responsibilities

• Assist with activities of daily living (ADLs), personal care, mobility, transfers, and safe manual handling; use a Hoyer lift when trained and appropriate.
• Support meal preparation, cooking, light cleaning, and personal transportation as assigned.
• Observe and monitor clients, record vital signs when required, and report changes in condition.
• Follow care plans, medication administration instructions, infection-control practices, HIPAA privacy requirements, and residents’ rights.
• Provide compassionate support for older adults and people with Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, autism, intellectual or developmental disabilities, and other support needs.

Requirements

• Patient care, caregiving, direct support, client communication, and patient personal care assistance skills.
• First aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) knowledge or certification, as required for the role.
• Experience in home care, home health, home and community care, assisted living, group homes, nursing homes, hospice, or long-term care is valuable.
• Familiarity with memory care, geriatrics, nursing practices, patient observation, patient monitoring, transfer methods, and medication administration is beneficial.
• Experience supporting individuals with disabilities or neurodevelopmental disorders is welcome; ability to perform assigned duties, including lifting, is required.

Pay: $15.00 - $17.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40.0 per week

Work Location: In person