Personal Care Assistant (PCA) Job Description
Do you enjoy helping the elderly and disabled? If so, we have the perfect job for you. We are a growing in-home care agency that provides non-medical care to the elderly and disabled in the comfort of their own home as an alternative to receiving care in a nursing facility.
If you are compassionate and reliable, we are looking for you! Our company provides Personal Care, Companionship, and Respite. Our company offers paid TB testing, clearance reimbursement as well as drive time between shifts.
** Shifts available in Duncannon, Mount Pleasant Mills, Mifflintown, and Lewistown **
Requirements:
· 18 years of age or older
· Valid driver's license
· Current car insurance
· Must pass a criminal background check
· Obtain child abuse and FBI clearances
· Effective communication and reliability
· Obtain physical form
Responsibilities:
· Light household duties such as making bed, changing linens, laundry, dusting, sweeping, meal preparation, washing dishes, removing trash.
· Assisting with bathing, hair care, oral hygiene, and toileting.
· Assist with ambulation and transfers.
· Prompting client to take medication- We do not administer medications.
· Respite care, which gives relief to family caregivers.
· Companionship, being someone for the client to communicate with
· Transporting clients to appointments or errand (Mileage Reimbursed)