Location: Bartholomew, Brown, Decatur, Jackson, and Jennings Counties.
Job purpose: To assist elderly disabled clients with daily living activities in their homes.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Assist self-directing client with medication reminders or refilling the consumer's prescription at the local pharmacy as specified on plan of care.
- Assist with correspondence and bill paying.
- Provides companionship by reading, conversation, and listening.
- Assists patient/client in completing necessary phone calls, letter writing, etc.
- Reminds client to take self-administered medications.
- Assists in the maintenance of a safe and healthy environment.
- Uses equipment and supplies safely and properly.
- Assist with yardwork.
- Meal planning, meal preparation and meal clean-up for client.
- Reports unsafe conditions, changes in the clients' physical or mental behavior or changes in the environment to the supervisor.
- Accurately check in, check out, and complete the process using mobile app on smartphone or telephony.
- Maintain respect for all clients, family members, medical professionals, community professionals, co-workers, and supervisors at all times.
- Maintain confidentiality of all protected health information and follow Health Insurance Protability and Acountability Act (HIPAA) compliance.
- Other job duties as assigned.
Attendant Care
- Assist with personal care which includes bathing, hair care, shaving, oral hygiene, hand, and foot care.
- Assist with mobility which includes transferring and balancing client.
- Assist self-directing client with transfers and ambulation including use of cane, walker, and wheelchair.
- Assist with toileting, including use of bedpan, commode or toilet.
- Assist self-directing client with medication reminders or refilling the consumer's prescription at the local pharmacy as specified on plan of care.
- Assist with correspondence and bill paying.
- Meal planning, meal preparation and meal clean-up for client.
- Escorting client to appointments, family outings, community events, or any therapeutic activity.
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Homemaker
- Housekeeping to maintain a clean, neat environment which includes:
- Dusting and straightening furniture.
- Cleaning floors and rugs by wet/dry and vacuum sweeping.
- Cleaning kitchen, bathrooms, living room, and bedrooms.
- Laundering clothes including washing, drying, folding, ironing, and putting away.
- Changing linens and making beds.
- Washing inside windows.
- Removing trash from home.
- Provide assistance with meals/nutrition which includes:
- Shopping for client (independent from client) and putting food away.
- Making meals including special diets.
- Runs the following essential errands (independent from client):
- Grocery shopping.
- Household supply shopping.
Qualifications
- At least 18 years of age
- Ability to read and write adequately to complete required paperwork
- Maintain adequate physical health to perform the job tasks required
- Must become CPR certified and Bloodborne Pathogen trained
Working Conditions
Working conditions and environment may vary based on client's home
Physical Requirements
- General household activities.
- Meal/nutrition preparation.
- Ability to multitasks and physically able to complete errands for the client.
- May be exposed to very hot or cold temperatures depending on the season.
- Light physical exertion on a regular and recurring basis such as driving and housekeeping.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently is required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; talk or hear, and taste or smell. Pushing, pulling, bending, squatting and lifting.
