What are the responsibilities and job description for the Personal Care Assistant position at Hartford Elderly Services LLC?
Job Description:
PCA - Provides health care tasks, personal hygiene services, housekeeping tasks and other related support services essential to the consumer’s health
PCA - Observes, records and reports all changes to supervisor.
All PCA’s must demonstrate competence in performing the necessary skills and only perform those skills on the plan of care
Duties and Responsibilities: Each PCA will be expected to perform the following:
1. Home management tasks including housekeeping, laundry, shopping and errands
2. Prepare and serve simple modified diets according to instruction and assist with feeding as necessary
3. Assist with bathing, dressing and grooming
4. Assist with toileting, including use of bedpan, commode or toilet
5. Assist self-directing consumers with transfers and ambulation including use of cane, walker, and wheelchair
6. Assist self-directing consumers with medication reminders or refilling the consumer’s prescription at the local pharmacy as specified on plan of care
7. Provide routine skin care. May assist self-directing consumers in applying nonprescription topical medications to skin surface
8. Collect routine specimens
9. Obtain consumer’s weight
10. Assist self-directing consumers in reminding them of their home maintenance exercise programs
11. Assist with the emptying of indwelling catheter care bag
12. Assist the self-directing consumer with reminders on changing the tubing or refilling a tank in the use of their oxygen equipment
Qualifications:
· Must have a current and valid PCA/HHA Certificate or go through a PCA/HHA training program
· Must be at least 18 years of age
· Must have a phone or a way to communicate to the office daily
· Must be able to arrive at cases at the required time - Some cases require the employee to have a car with a valid CT DL
· Preferred high school diploma or equivalency