Full Time CAREGiver-Jacksonville, IL - Full-time / Part-time

FULL TIME CAREGIVER JOB DESCRIPTION As a CAREGiver, you provide a variety of services that allow seniors to remain in their homes. Clients Services may include those that stimulate, encourage, and assist an individual.  They may also include light housekeeping, errands or incidental transportation, services that are personal in nature and often include assistance with activities of daily living.
The primary responsibilities of Client Services include the following:

• Providing companionship and conversation
• Providing stabilization and assistance with walking
• Preparing meals and cleaning up meal-related items
• Providing medication reminders and appointment reminders
• Performing light housekeeping tasks (dusting, vacuuming, making beds, changing linens, cleaning bathrooms, kitchens, etc.)
• Washing and ironing laundry
• Running errands
• Accompanying clients to appointments
• Assisting with bathing
• Assisting with grooming
• Assisting with toileting and incontinence issues

Secondary responsibilities include the following:

• Contributing to a positive living environment to enhance a client’s quality of life
• Performing other reasonable duties as assigned
• Reporting hours according to office policy
• Reporting any significant changes in a client’s needs or living conditions
• Regularly communicating with supervisor and office staff

Essential Qualifications
An individual must possess the minimum education, experience and skills to perform the primary and secondary responsibilities that the job requires.

• Full time CAREGivers will be expected to work 40-50 hours per week.
• Full time CAREGivers will be expected to accept all shifts offered up to 30 miles from their home and up to 50 hours per week maximum. This will include Day, Evening, Late Night and Overnight shifts.
• Full time CAREGivers must also maintain consistent and timely communication with the office.

Additional qualifications include:

• Ability to lift, push or pull 25 pounds
• Ability to bend, twist, stoop, kneel, and reach
• Ability to withstand exposure to dust, mold, mildew and cleaning solutions
• Ability to treat and care for clients and their property with dignity and respect
• Ability to adapt to various living environments and locations
• Ability to communicate with clients in a friendly and congenial manner
  Special Qualifications
  Must be able and willing to drive up to 30 miles from your home to work with clients. You may be asked to drive farther if the shift is still profitable for you to work it.
  Potential Qualifications
  The CAREGiver position may require you to run errands and provide incidental transportation for a client using your vehicle or a client’s vehicle.
  Potential Schedules
  The full time CAREGiver schedule will vary from day to day and is subject to change based on client needs.  
   
   
  The CAREGiver Job Description describes the general nature and level of work for the position. It is not a comprehensive list of its responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts and conditions. Your employer reserves the right to modify the description in the future with or without notice. The responsibilities for this position are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.

Your employer is Best Senior Care, Inc. (d.b.a. an independently owned and operated Home Instead Senior Care franchise). Your employer is not Home Instead Senior Care. This job description does not create an employment contract, nor imply it. Employment with your employer remains at will. Please be advised that this position is subject to a 60 day probationary period.

Each Home Instead franchise is independently owned and operated.