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Requisition # : 194054
Location : Titusville, PA 16354
Category : Direct Care Worker
Salary :
Starting at $12.00 per hour
Position Details
Great Cases Available Immediately!
Aveanna Healthcare is seeking team-oriented, compassionate caregivers! We have immediate opportunities available for first, second, and third shifts! With options suited for all availabilities; part time, full time, and even over time, you can enjoy a schedule that fits your lifestyle!
When you join Aveanna Healthcare, you are joining a team of professionals driven by our passion to provide local families with the highest quality care imaginable. We are committed to delivering our caregivers with an employee experience that is second to none! You can expect to always be supported, valued, and heard, because without you, none of what we do would be possible.
Aveanna DCWs Enjoy :Essential Job Functions :
- 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 clients mental alertness through involvement in activities of interest
- Establishes a relationship with client and family which transmits trust and confidence
- Reports any change in clients mental or physical condition
- 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
- Notifies the Company of absences due to illness, emergency leave, normal vacation periods, bereavement or special professional meetings which will affect service(s) with the Company
- Completion of high school diploma or equivalent preferred
- Ability to speak, comprehend, read, and write English consistent with job requirements
- Completion of one years employment as a personal care aide, nurses aide or in another healthcare related field preferred
- Have the emotional and mental maturity necessary for establishing and maintaining a good relationship with client, clients 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
Maintains client / family confidentiality at all times
Confirms on a weekly basis, the scheduling of visits with the Supervisor / Director, to coordinate necessary visits with other personnel
Requirements :
Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action :
Aveanna provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Aveanna complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
As an employer accepting Medicare and Medicaid funds, employees must comply with all health-related requirements in all relevant jurisdictions, including required vaccinations and testing, subject to exemptions for medical or religious reasons as appropriate.
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