Caregiver (Home Care Aide) - Los Angeles, United States - Home Guardian Angels

Description

Place of Employment:
Client homes and other work sites outside the home as required by HGA management.


Job Summary:

The Caregiver is a front line position acting as a representative of
Home Guardian Angels and providing the services offered by the company.

The Caregiver duties are not limited to those listed as the position has a wide scope of duties at times dependent on the client and always under the auspices of the company.

The Caregiver will mostly work independently of co-workers or supervisors and therefore must balance good judgement and initiative along with the policies of the company.

It should be noted that emphasis is for the Caregiver to involve the client in the care program to help provide the client with the basic standards of healthy living as follows:

• Physical Activity
• Nutrition

• Mental Stimulation

• Relaxation

• Personal Contact

• Humor

Work Hours:
This position may require various shifts at various times (including nights, weekends, and holidays)


Duties:

The following list of duties is a guideline of possible duties to be performed independently or as a group of duties in the course of working with the client.

The Caregiver duties are not limited to those listed.


Companionship:

One of the most important aspects of Home Guardian Angels will be providing customers with a strong sense of self-esteem and independence.

Taking a genuine interest in the client, their life and their environment will help create true sense of companionship.

Whether it is playing a favorite board game or card game, reading, taking a stroll or visiting with friends and neighbors, companionship provides the depth of our services.

Personal Hygiene:

Assistance with care of hair, teeth, dentures, shaving, filing of nails, other basic personal hygiene and grooming needs.

Includes supervising the client when he/she can perform these tasks, assisting the client when he/she can participate in care of his/her appearance, and performing grooming tasks for the client when he/she is unable to participate in caring for his/her appearance.

Dressing:

Assistance with dressing and undressing.

Includes supervising the client when he/she can dress and undress when guided, assisting with difficult tasks such as tying shoes and buttoning, and completely dressing or undressing the client when he/she is unable to participate in dressing or undressing him/herself.

Bathing:

Assisting the client to wash his or her body.

Includes supervising the client when he/she can bathe him/herself when guided, assisting the client with difficult tasks such as getting in or out of the tub or washing back, and completely bathing the client when he/she is totally unable to wash him/herself.

Meal Preparation:

Assistance with preparing meals. Includes planning meals (including special diets), assisting clients who are able to participate in meal preparation, preparing meals for participants unable to participate, and cleaning up after meals


Eating:

Assistance with eating.

Includes supervising the client when he/she is able to feed him/herself when guided, assisting with difficult tasks such as cutting food or buttering bread, and feeding the client when he/she is unable to participate in feeding him/herself.

Housekeeping, Laundry, and Pet Care

Provide household assistance as dusting, washing hardwood and flooring, vacuuming carpets and furniture, changing bedding, scrubbing the bathroom; pre-washing, washing, drying, ironing and folding laundry; defrosting refrigerators/freezers; cleaning ovens/stoves and china cabinets; caring for house plants; taking out garbage and general tidying of living spaces as required or requested.

It also includes caring for pets including grooming, feeding, exercising, walking, playing, cleaning up after the pet.


Toileting:

Assistance with bladder and/or bowel problems.

Includes supervising the client when he/she can take care of his/her own toileting needs, helping him/her to and from the bathroom, assisting with bed pan routines, diapering and lifting him/her on and off the toilet.

Ambulation:

Assisting the client to move around.

Includes supervising the client when he/she can walk alone or with the help of a mechanical device (such as a walker) when guided, assisting with difficult parts of walking (such as climbing stairs), supervising the client when he/she is able to propel his/her wheelchair when guided, pushing the wheelchair, and providing constant physical assistance to the client when he/she is totally unable to walk alone or with a mechanical device.

Transfer:

Assistance with getting in and out of bed or wheelchair or on and off the toilet and/or in and out of the bath tub.

Includes supervising the client when he/she is able to transfer when guided, provided steadying, and helping the client when he/she can assist in his/her transfer.

Lifting the client when he/she is unable to assist in their transfer requires specialized training.

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