Home Care - Personal Care Attendant II

Job Description

Job Description

Home Care Personal Care Attendant II

The Center for Elders’ Independence  is a PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the elderly) organization that uses an interdisciplinary team approach to care planning and care implementation for the purpose of providing high quality, affordable, integrated health care services to the elderly, including an Adult Day Health Center, and promoting autonomy, quality of life and the ability of individuals to live in their communities

The Position : The Personal Care Attendant II provides assistance to CEI participants in the participant’s home or day center. The Personal Care Attendant II demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide personal care and ADL / IADL care to frail elderly people who need help to continue living safely in the community. The Personal Care Attendant (PCA) II provides care and services as determined by the participant’s care plan in accordance with PACE Regulations.

The salary range for the Home Care PCA II role at Center For Elders Independence is $22.50 - $33.76 per hr.  Salaries are based on the market for the Home Care PCA II position, as well as experience, skills, abilities and work history.

Department Duties and Responsibilities :

Day Center :

• Records services in required logs or electronic health record.
• Assists individual and group activities, as necessary.
• Accompanying participants to outside medical appointments
• Responsible for ensuring that all wander risk participants are wearing code alert devices.
• Obtains and maintains food handler's certification.
• Assists with food service program, including serving snacks and meals at the day center, checking food temperatures, reviewing diet orders.
• Performs kitchen duties to include washing dishes, sanitizing work area, maintaining supply inventory, and checking for food expiration dates.

Home Care :

General Duties and Responsibilities :

Provides Activities of Daily Living (ADL)and Independent Activities of Daily Living (IADL) to support participants such as toileting, showering, bathing, dressing, grooming, feeding / assisted dining, meal service, laundry, transfers and ambulation, and range of motion.

Qualifications

Additional Job Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; talk and hear, as well as demonstrate manual and finger dexterity and eye-hand coordination.

This position is continually active and requires the employee to frequently stoop, kneel, crouch, and reach with hands and arms. Employees are frequently required to walk and sit. The employee must regularly lift, carry, or move up to 50 pounds and push or pull objects exceeding 150 pounds, using appropriate body mechanics.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment :

While carrying out the responsibilities of this role, the employee regularly encounters a diverse range of health conditions, environmental elements, and other factors inherent to providing care for vulnerable seniors both in healthcare settings and within their residences.

The above job description is intended to communicate the general function of the above-mentioned position and by no means should it be considered an exhaustive or complete outline of the specific tasks and functions that will be required. CEI reserves the right to change job descriptions, site assignments, and or work hours as required by the needs of the program. All employees are expected to perform their duties within their ability as required by the job and / or as requested by management. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.