Direct Care Worker
Aveanna Healthcare
- Tionesta, PA
- $12.00 per hour
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Weekly Pay
- Industry Leading Training
- Flexible Scheduling (Freedom to create your own schedule!)
- Team Focused, Positive Work Environment
- PTO & Benefits
- 24/7 On-Call Support (Both operations & clinical managers are always available)
- Incentive Opportunities (referral bonuses, special pay rates, and fun programs throughout the year)
- Opportunities Close to Home
- Advancement Opportunities
- And so much more!
- Helps the client to maintain good personal hygiene including bathing, shaving, grooming, and dressing.
- Assists in maintaining a healthy, safe environment
- Plans and prepares and may feed the client nutritious meals. Completes errands when instructed to do so by the company supervisor
- Assists the client with transfers and ambulation with or without an assistive device
- Provides medication reminders
- Encourages the client to become as independent as possible according to the nursing care plan
- Attempts to promote client's mental alertness through involvement in activities of interest
- Establishes a relationship with client and family which transmits trust and confidence
- Reports any changes in home situation to the company
- Carries out assignment(s) as instructed by their supervisor and reports any pertinent changes to care
- Performs routine housekeeping tasks as related to a safe and comfortable environment for the client, as instructed by the supervisor
- Participates in in-service education as required by company policy and state/federal regulations
- Completion of high school diploma or equivalent preferred
- Ability to speak, comprehend, read, and write English consistent with job requirements
- Completion of one year's employment as a personal care aide, nurse's aide or in another healthcare related field preferred
- Have the emotional and mental maturity necessary for establishing and maintaining a good relationship with client, client's family, and the personnel of the company
- Must have available, reliable transportation to and from assignments
- A minimum of two satisfactory references and background screenings are obtained prior to hire
- Must be able to stoop and bend
- Must be able to safely lift, turn and transfer clients weighing up to 50 pounds
- Must be able to carry bundles weighing up to 10 pounds up stairs