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SKILLED Caregivers/CNAs Needed for Hourly and Live In Shifts To Start Immediately

Assisting Hands - Elgin

SKILLED Caregivers/CNAs Needed for Hourly and Live In Shifts To Start Immediately

Elgin, IL
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Benefits:

    Paid time off

    Direct deposit

    Referral bonuses

    Holiday pay if working any major holidays

    Mileage reimbursement when driving for client needs

    401K

    Short/Long term disability

    Tuition Assistance for CNA program (must meet eligibility requirements

    Primary Duties:

    Maintaining a clean, safe, and healthy environment within client’s residence. Duties may include light cleaning and straightening of the bathroom, straightening the sleeping and living areas, washing client's dishes or laundry, and other tasks to maintain cleanliness and safety for the client.

    The performance of all personal care activities contained in a written Plan of Care which may include assisting the client with personal hygiene, ambulation and exercise, eating, dressing, shaving, physical transfer, and other duties as assigned.

    Providing nutritional support as needed.

    Reporting changes in the client’s condition.

    Other activities that are determined necessary and trained on for a specific client and are restricted to the following:

    Assisting with the use of devices for aid to daily living such as a wheelchair, walker, or hoyer lift;

    Assisting with prescribed range of motion exercises;

    Teaching household routine and skills to well members of the family;

    Measuring intake and output of fluids;

    Measuring and recording temperature, pulse, respiration or blood pressure;

    Keeping records of personal health care activities;

    Observing appearance and gross behavioral changes in the client and reporting to the agency supervisor.

    Assisting the client with the self-administration of medication, limited to the following tasks:

    Taking the medication in its previously dispensed, properly labeled container, from where it is stored and bringing it to the client.

    In the presence of the client, reading the label, opening the container, removing a prescribed amount of medication from the container, and closing the container.

    Placing an oral dosage in the client's hand or placing the dosage in another container and helping the client by lifting the container to his or her mouth.

    Hours: Dependent on assignment; Shifts available 24 hours a day, 7 days per week and based on availability. Assisting Hands does not guarantee hours.

    FLSA Status: Non-exempt, hourly