Caregiver
Location: Danbury, CT, United States
Salary Range: 16.50 - 27.67
Work Type: Per Diem
Standard Hours: 0
FTE: Non-Exempt
Work Schedule: Day 8
Work Shift: Sunday - Saturday, 12:00am - 11:59pm, as needed
Date Posted:
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Nuvance Health extends from New York’s Hudson Valley to western Connecticut. Our team of more than 15,000 caregivers delivers compassionate care through seven community hospitals, primary care and specialty practice locations, outpatient settings, home care services and telehealth visits. With strong hearts and open minds, we’re pushing past boundaries and challenging the expected, all in the name of possibility. As we journey forward, we are guided by our values: personal, imaginative, agile and connected. Our curiosity is opening new pathways and creating new advancements in healthcare for all.
Description
2. Assists the client with exercises, ambulation, and transfer activities. This includes knowledge in use of devices such as canes, walkers, crutches, and lifts.
3. Independently assists the client with meal preparation/cooking and/or feeding. Must have working knowledge of special diets, diet restrictions, and techniques to maintain sanitary kitchen conditions to prevent food-borne illnesses.
4. Assists the client with medication prompts to remind the client to self-administer his/her medications.
5. Identifies and reports changes in client condition.
6. Independently provides basic homemaking and laundry assistance for client in the home.
7. Follows policy and procedure for assigned client care activities.
8. Maintains a safe and orderly work environment in the clients’ homes. This includes maintaining professional boundaries and integrity of client financial and personal information in clients’ homes, as well as following network/agency infection and prevention policies and procedures in clients’ homes.
9. Provides companionship and engages in activities of interest to the client.
10. Assists the client with light pet care as needed, such as walking a dog, feeding a dog/cat, changing a cat litter pan.
11. Transporting the client to appointments and errands.
12. Fulfills all compliance responsibilities related to the position.
13. Performs other duties as assigned.
Other information:
* Valid Drivers License
Essential:
* Significant manual skills / motor coord & finger dexterity
* Significant occupational risk
* Very Heavy effort. May exert up to 50 lbs. force
* Significant exposure to dirt, odor, noise, human waste, etc.
We are an equal opportunity employer
Qualified applicants are considered for positions and are evaluated without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status or any other classification protected under applicable Federal, State or Local law.
We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of a qualified applicant with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation or our business. If you believe you require such assistance to complete this form or to participate in an interview, please contact Human Resources at 203-739-7330 (for reasonable accommodation requests only). Please provide all information requested to ensure that you are considered for current or future opportunities.
