Respite Workers Needed
About the role
Join Owen Health Care as a Part-Time Respite Worker and make a meaningful impact in your community! This role offers the unique opportunity to blend compassion with convenience, allowing you to support families while maintaining a flexible schedule. You'll engage with clients in a supportive environment, bringing excellence to the forefront of care.
Responsibilities
- Provide compassionate support to families with children who have intellectual and developmental disabilities.
- Afford caregivers the necessary time to attend to personal and household matters.
- Engage children in various recreational and leisure activities primarily in a home setting.
- Ensure families enjoy enriching experiences both at home and within the community.
- Foster a nurturing environment for caregivers to recharge.
Requirements
- Effective verbal communication skills for initiating and maintaining conversations with managers, clients, and parents.
- Consistent attendance and punctuality to provide reliable support to families.
- Experience working with children with disabilities.
- Strong interpersonal skills to foster satisfactory working relationships with families and other professionals.
- Strong time management skills to balance responsibilities effectively.
Benefits
- Competitive hourly pay with benefits such as a 401(k).
- Forward-thinking team with a culture that prioritizes clients with integrity.
Pay
Competitive hourly pay.
Schedule
Flexible schedule.
Owen Health Care: Who We Are
Owen Health Care is a state-licensed agency and is accredited by The Joint Commission as a health care agency. We provide compassionate, quality, and affordable health care services to adults with mental health, substance abuse, and co-occurring disorders, as well as to all individuals with disabilities-including children and the elderly. In our organization, we are passionate about helping people, dedicated to the health and well being of all the clients we serve, and committed to ensuring the best quality of care. Our licensed clinicians and highly qualified professionals are trained to provide the highest quality, compassionate care.
What matters most
- Engage children effectively, delivering quality care in a friendly, patient, and compassionate manner.
- Strong verbal communication skills for initiating and maintaining conversations with managers, clients, and parents.
- Consistency in attendance and punctuality to provide reliable support to families.
- Experience working with children with disabilities.
- Effective interpersonal skills to foster satisfactory working relationships with families and other professionals.
- Strong time management skills to balance responsibilities effectively.
Your next step
If you feel that this job is what you're looking for, apply now! We look forward to hearing from you!