Personal Care Worker

The purpose of this position is to perform a variety of duties to provide quality care to residents. Duties include getting residents up, prepared for meals and helping with some of their residential duties like making beds, doing laundry and taking out trash.

The following duties are normal for this position. These are not to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Other duties may be required and assigned.

• Answer call lights.
• Set up the kitchen for breakfast.
• Pass out medications.
• Prepare breakfast.
• Collect resident laundry, trash, and perform laundry duties.
• Reset the dining room and prepare lunch alternatives.
• Assist in the kitchen by checking food temperatures, dishing up desserts, distributing desserts, and beverages.
• Fold laundry and put it away for residents.
• Complete reports for shift change.
• Ambulates residents. Escorts and transports residents to dining room, activities, and other areas within the facility.
• Assists residents with personal hygiene/grooming, or performs personal hygiene for residents such as bathing, shaving, toileting, cutting nails, brushing hair, dressing, brushing teeth and others.
• Makes beds, collects dirty bed linens, and takes to laundry.
• Cleans eating areas. Picks up food trays, load, and unload dishwasher.
• Loads and unloads washers and dryers and fold clothes and linens.
• Participates in trainings and meetings.
• Performs other duties as assigned or apparent.