PCA Personal Care Aide (LB 2687)

Role and Responsibilities

Provide personal care and supportive services to individuals in the community, in the privacy of their home.

Essential Functions

• Ensure the safety of the client, client’s family and/or the employee.
• Maintain HIPAA.
• Provide one’s own transportation to and from client visits/assignments and arrive promptly to all assigned HCR work locations.
• Commit to be available for work and accept assignments when offered.
• Be able to speak and write in English, in order to follow the plan of care, communicate effectively with client and interdisciplinary team.
• Provide personal care and companionship to a client with health care needs, in his/her home.
• Attend ongoing in-service programs to maintain certification.
• Other duties as assigned.

This job description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions; and nothing in this herein restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing, Business or related field is required.
• Master’s Degree in Business or related field preferred.

Qualifications and Requirements

• 5-7 years’ experience in a Senior Leadership role in Health Care Administration, with P&L responsibility, preferably in home care.

Work Environment

The Chief Nursing Officer is primarily in an office setting and may be exposed to outdoor conditions.

The working conditions are classified as sedentary work:

• Sedentary work - Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.

Physical Requirements

The following is a description of the physical requirements on a daily basis for the Chief Nursing Officer. While performing the duties of the job the employee is regularly expected to:

• Stand
• Sit
• Hear
• Walk
• Talk
• Stoop or kneel
• Repetitive motion

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned.

EOE/AA Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran