Overnight Caregiver

About the role

This position provides custodial and personal care services to clients that contract with Assisting Hands for services under the direction of the Staffing Coordinator in compliance with the Plan of Care.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining a clean, safe, and healthy environment within client’s residence.
• Duties may include light cleaning and straightening of the bathroom, straightening the sleeping and living areas, washing client's dishes or laundry, and other tasks to maintain cleanliness and safety for the client.
• The performance of all personal care activities contained in a written Plan of Care which may include assisting the client with personal hygiene, ambulation and exercise, eating, dressing, shaving, physical transfer, and other duties as assigned.
• Providing nutritional support as needed.
• Reporting changes in the client’s condition.
• Other activities that are determined necessary and trained on for a specific client and are restricted to the following:
• Assisting with the use of devices for aid to daily living such as a wheelchair, walker, or hoyer lift;
• Assisting with prescribed range of motion exercises;
• Teaching household routine and skills to well members of the family;
• Making measurements of intake and output of fluids;
• Making and recording temperature, pulse, respiration or blood pressure measurements;
• Keeping records of personal health care activities;
• Observing appearance and gross behavioral changes in the client and reporting to the agency supervisor.
• Assisting the client with the self-administration of medication, limited to the following tasks:
• Taking the medication in its previously dispensed, properly labeled container, from where it is stored and bringing it to the client.
• In the presence of the client, reading the label, opening the container, removing a prescribed amount of medication from the container, and closing the container.
• Placing an oral dosage in the client's hand or placing the dosage in another container and helping the client by lifting the container to his or her mouth.
• Returning the medication container to proper storage.
• Keeping a record of when a client receives assistance with self-administration of medication.
• Examples of such assistance include the steadying of the arm, hand, or other parts of the client's body so as to allow the self-administration of medication;
• Abiding by the agency’s infection control policies, including proper hand washing techniques consistent with CDC Guidelines.
• Abiding by all policies and procedures outlined in the agency’s Policy and Procedure Manual, Caregiver Handbook, and Caregiver Training Manual.

Qualifications

• A High School Diploma/GED is required.
• One (1) year experience in the home or long-term care setting is preferred.

Skills

• Must be able to follow a written Plan of Care.
• Must be able to perform personal care activities as outlined in the Plan of Care.
• Must be able to report changes in the client’s condition.
• Must be able to assist with the use of devices for aid to daily living.
• Must be able to assist with prescribed range of motion exercises.
• Must be able to teach household routine and skills to well members of the family.
• Must be able to measure and record temperature, pulse, respiration or blood pressure.
• Must be able to keep records of personal health care activities.
• Must be able to observe appearance and gross behavioral changes in the client.
• Must be able to assist with the self-administration of medication.
• Must be able to abide by the agency’s infection control policies.
• Must be able to abide by all policies and procedures outlined in the agency’s Policy and Procedure Manual, Caregiver Handbook, and Caregiver Training Manual.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

Dependent on assignment.

Schedule

Shifts available 24 hours a day, 7 days per week and based on availability.

FLSA Status

Non-exempt, hourly.