Description

  • Personal Care Attendants provide services to individuals in their own homes and communities who need assistance caring for themselves as a result of old age, sickness, disability, and/or other infirmities.
  • Personal Care may include assistance with the activities of daily living, housecleaning, laundry, meal preparation, transportation, companionship, and respite.
  • Personal Care Attendants are responsible for ensuring that service is delivered in a caring and respectful manner, in accordance with relevant Agency policies and industry standards.

Reporting Relationship

  • Reports to Home Care Supervisor.

Responsibilities and Activities

  • Bathing
  • Shaving
  • Ambulation
  • Mouthcar
  • Dressing
  • Exercise
  • Haircare
  • Feeding
  • Toileting
  • Nailcare
  • Positioning
  • Medication Reminding
  • Skincare
  • Transferrig

Responsibilities and Activities

  • Ensure the client’s safety and security by supervising the home environment.
  • Teach/perform meal planning and preparation, as well as routine housekeeping activities such as making/changing beds, dusting, vacuuming, washing floors, cleaning kitchen and bathroom, and laundry.
  • Provide companionship, including social interactions, conversations, emotional reassurance, and encouragement of activities that stimulate the mind.
  • Provides respite care for families in accordance with care plans.
  • Perform/assist with essential shopping/errands, which may include handling the client’s money in accordance with the care plan and under the observation of the Supervisor.
  • Assist clients with following a written, special diet plan and reinforcement of diet maintenance, which is identified in the care plan.
  • Escort clients to medical facilities, errands, shopping, and outings as specified in the care plan.
  • Assist clients with communication by writing or typing correspondence for them or researching information for them.
  • Participate in the Care Team by providing input and making suggestions.
  • Ensure service is delivered in accordance with all relevant policies, procedures, and practices.
  • Monitor supplies and resources.
  • Evaluate the program and make recommendations to it, as indicated.
  • Follow the written care plan.
  • Carry out duties as assigned by the Supervisor.
  • Observe clients and their environments and report unsafe conditions to the Supervisor.
  • Observe clients and their environments and reports behavior, physical and/or cognitive changes and/or changes in living arrangements to Supervisor. Complete and maintain records of daily activities, observations, and direct hours of service.
  • Attend orientation, in-service training sessions, and staff meetings.
  • Develop and maintain constructive and cooperative working relationships with others.
  • Make decisions and solve problems.
  • Communicate with the Supervisor and co-workers.
  • Observe, receive, and obtain information from relevant sources.
  • Performs other duties as required.

Required skills/abilities

  • The ability to competently assist clients with their daily living activities. The ability to be aware of other people’s reactions and understand why they react as they do.
  • The ability to establish and maintain relationships.
  • The ability to teach others.
  • The ability to listen actively.
  • The ability to identify problems and determine effective solutions.
  • The ability to apply reason and logic to identify the strengths and weaknesses of possible solutions.
  • The ability to monitor and assess themselves, clients, and effectiveness of service.
  • The ability to understand written and oral instructions.
  • The ability to communicate information orally so that others understand.
  • The ability to communicate in writing so that others understand.
  • The ability to work independently and in cooperation with others.
  • The ability to determine or recognize when something is likely to go wrong.
  • The ability to suggest a number of ideas on a subject.
  • The ability to perform activities that use the whole body.
  • The ability to handle and move objects and people.
  • The ability to provide advice and consultation to others.
  • The ability to observe and recognize changes in clients.
  • The ability to establish and maintain harmonious relations with clients/families/co-workers.

Physical and Mental Demands

  • Good physical and mental health.
  • Physical ability to stand, walk, use hands and fingers, reach, stoop, kneel, crouch, talk, hear, and see.
  • Mental fortitude and stability to handle stress.
  • Physical and mental ability to drive a vehicle.

Qualifications and Education

  • Current driver’s license or access to public transportation.
  • Proper Vehicle Insurance Coverage.

Training/experience

  • May require related experience.
  • On-the-job training for new activities.

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