Caregiver

Our agency RDS Home Care is a quality non-medical and personal in-home care. We have been making life easier for our clients since 2018. Our caregivers are employees that we carefully select and thoroughly screen using our exclusive Care Check System™. We utilize our Client & Caregiver Matching System™, to ensure the best possible client/caregiver match. We are dedicated to providing exceptional home care services that exceed our client's expectations.

OUR VISION: We are a client-centered company providing a rewarding and fun employment culture for our employees. Our clients lead more joyful and comfortable lives as a direct result of our involvement with them. Our employees enjoy their work and find value in their day to day efforts.

OUR MISSION: We are committed to providing quality home health care, independence and comfort through the provision of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, and community health related services that are responsive to the diverse needs of our clients.

In RDS Home Care, Inc. doesn’t just take care of our clients; we plan for our clients. We use our comprehensive and customized Total Care Plan™ to tailor our care plans to meet a client's specific needs, budget and schedule by tapping various resources and complementary service providers as care needs evolve. Our agency is proactive, not reactive, and offers a flexible, affordable continuum of care that adjusts to our clients’ changing needs.

OUR CORE VALUES

Honesty and Integrity

We serve each of our clients with the highest degree of honesty and integrity. Our clients and their families are experiencing a difficult time and they need to understand that by choosing our agency, they can trust us to do right in every circumstance. When we do make a mistake, we accept full responsibility and make every attempt to correct it. We honor those whom we serve with gratitude for the lives that they have lived.

Joyfulness

We strive to provide services with a friendly and positive approach, focusing on the joy and fun available in simple, everyday activity

Love and Caring

We value the loving and caring aspects of humanity. We understand and appreciate the uniqueness of each individual and choose to accept people for who they are in light of the potentially difficult circumstances they are facing in their lives. We have compassion for the ailing and offer empathy and sensitive concern for all.

A Commitment to a Great Care Experience, Every Time

Every client is an individual with unique needs and desires, and is treated as such. Our primary focus is to ensure that each client receives a great care experience every time they deal with us.

In-Home Care, Inc. is currently looking for a reliable, responsible, and compassionate Caregiver to join our growing team in Philadelphia, PA on a part-time basis. This office services, adult and geriatric clients in Center City, North, Northeast, South, and West Philadelphia.

We expect our caregivers to:

• Support the Vision, Mission and Core Values of In-Home Care, Inc
• Keep us informed of their availability to work
• Accept work assignments within their stated time and areas
• Be on time, properly dressed and prepared for all work assignments
• Keep the client as their #1 priority while working and not discuss personal problems with clients
• Not conduct personal business while working
• Complete 12 hours of training annually
• Provide the office with required paperwork (i.e. PPD Test Results, proof of auto insurance, etc.)
• Clock in and out of their shifts using the Telephony System
• Submit their ADL reports and Time Sheets to the office accurately and on time
• Treat their clients and co-workers with respect and dignity
• Read, understand and comply with our employee policies
• Immediately report incidents or complaints
• Follow the provided Plan of Care
• Return calls to the office in a timely manner

Caregiver Job Description

Primary Responsibilities of this position may include:

• Grooming – Hair Care, Shaving, Oral Care, and Skin Care
• Bathing - Assist with the shower, tub bath, bed bath
• Dressing - Assist client with dressing/undressing
• Toileting - Assist client to the bathroom, bedside commode, urinal, bedpan or diapers
• Ambulation - Assist client with walkers, canes, gait belt, or crutches
• Transferring - Assist client to/from bed, wheelchair, low chair, use of lift, turning client in bed
• Medications - Provide client with medication reminders
• Cleaning - light cleaning of client’s kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, laundry, changing sheets, and other light housework for the clients comfort & safety
• Meals - Shop for and cooking of food for client, following special diets, serving and/or feeding meals
• Emotional Support - Provide companionship, teaching, having conversations, playing cards/games, etc.
• Transportation - Errands, Medical appointments
• Communication - Coordinating patient care with key members of the In-Home Care, Inc. Reporting changes in the patient’s condition to family, agency, and medical team. Maintain records of patient care.

Essential Qualifications

• Professionalism
• The ability to communicate in both spoken and written English.
• The ability to communicate with clients and co-workers in a friendly manner.
• Ability to lift 25 pounds, bending, twisting, stooping, kneeling, reaching, pushing.
• Ability to communicate with the office to ensure that service expectations are met.
• Ability to adapt to various living environments and locations.
• Ability to withstand periodic contact with pets, dust, mold, mildew and cleaning solutions.

Special Requirements

All employees are required to provide documentation of legal authority to work in the US, have sympathy for and interest in caring for the elderly and sick at home. Caregivers are required to have valid 2-Step PPD results at the time of hire and are required by state law to be re-tested annually. Caregivers who drive must provide In-Home Care, Inc. with a valid driver’s license, proof of current insurance, current registration, and provide a copy of a State Department of Motor Vehicles driving record. Additionally, caregivers must pass a pre-employment background and drug screening.

Working Conditions

Caregivers work in the client’s homes. They must be able to bend down, lift and do other things associated with cleaning, cooking and caregiving. The must be able to handle patient suffering that might be due to physical or emotional problems at home. Since most clients cannot be left alone, caregivers will be required to take “on duty meal breaks” and not leave the client’s home during the break.

Training

Formal training is not required to work as a non-medical in-home caregiver in Pennsylvania. RDS Home Care, Inc. offers formal training throughout the year, but we feel that completing 120 hours of specialized training to obtain a Home Health Aide or Certified Nursing Assistant certificate will help you excel as a caregiver with us. This training will cover basic nutrition, meal planning and preparation, home cleaning tasks, as well as techniques for safely bathing, turning and transferring the client.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $12.00 - $13.00 per hour

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Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $12.00 - $13.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance

Schedule:

• 12 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

COVID-19 considerations:
Caregivers are required to be fully COVID19 vaccinated, masks must be worn regularly.

Work Location: Multiple Locations