Home Care Aide

About the role

This position involves assisting individuals and their families with attaining and maintaining self-sufficiency and improving quality of life. In-home Aide Services include essential home management tasks to maintain individuals in their homes as long as possible. This position also provides transportation to clients as assigned.

Responsibilities

• Provides environmental care tasks such as housekeeping and home management to individuals who are self-directing, medically stable, and have at least one instrumental activity of daily living impairment.
• Performs basic environmental and home management tasks, including vacuuming, dusting, mopping, sweeping, cleaning bathroom and kitchen, changing linens, making beds, laundry, simple meal preparation, and bill paying.
• Completes required reports regarding tasks performed for clients per In-home Aide standards.
• Reports important changes observed in the family or individual served.
• Adds addresses situations when able or seeks guidance and advice from supervisor whenever in doubt.
• Attends training sessions and meetings as scheduled.

Qualifications

• A high school degree is preferred.
• The position must be able to follow instructions and communicate observations to the supervisor.
• It must also be able to relate to the clientele served, follow written and verbal directions, and perform required physical tasks.
• Must have a valid NC driver’s license and reliable transportation.

Benefits

• Earns sick and vacation time each paycheck.
• Accrues twelve (12) holidays annually, including New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving (Thursday and Friday), and Christmas (3 days).
• One (1) personal day per year.
• Health & Vision Insurance with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (PPO, 80/20, $1000 deductible).
• Teledoc with a $10 co-pay per visit.
• Dental Coverage with Guardian dental insurance (FREE to full-time employees).
• Flexible Spending Program, Life Insurance, Cancer, Accident, and Disability policies.
• Employee health clinic with an on-site Advance Practice Provider.
• Option to join the Stanly County YMCA with the County paying half of the employee’s membership.
• Employee Assistant Program offering up to six (6) free sessions on a rolling year.
• Retirement with membership in the N.C. Local Government Employees’ Retirement System, with six percent (6%) withheld from each paycheck and deposited into the retirement system. The County also contributes to the plan.
• NC 401(k) (Supplemental Retirement Plan) with the option to contribute to the Empower 401(k) plan and receive a matching contribution.
• Longevity pay earned after three (3) years of continuous Local Government retirement benefited service working with Stanly County government.
• Longevity Bonus: 3 years but less than 5 years $300, 5 years but less than 10 years $600, 10 years but less than 15 years $900, 15 years but less than 20 years $1,200, 20 years or more $1,500.