Job Summary:

Personal Care Assistants provide “hands on” care by helping clients with activities of daily living.

Requirements:

• High school diploma or equivalent

• PCA training

• Complete criminal background check, DMV check, and drug screen

• Access to a car

• Possess valid driver’s license and auto insurance

• Ability to communicate with clients in a courteous manner and treat them with respect

• 1-2 years working with the elderly

  Duties (including but not limited to):

• Grooming, bathing, dressing and toileting

• Assisting with shaving, only with the use of an electric shaver

• Assisting with feeding client providing the client can still independently swallow and be positioned upright.

• Assisting with general skin care when skin is unbroken and when any chronic skin problems are not active. Skin care should be preventive rather than therapeutic in nature. *Caregivers may apply non-medicated lotions and solutions that do not require a physician’s prescription.*

• Assisting with pivot transfers (bed to chair, chair to bed, chair to commode, and wheel-chair to car) only when the client has sufficient balance and strength to reliably stand, pivot and assist with the transfer

• Adaptive and safety equipment may be used in transfers, provided the client and caregiver are fully trained in the use of equipment and can direct the transfer. *Caregivers can assist with the use of gait belts and transfer devices with the proper training and demonstrated competency.*

• Empty or change external urinary and ostomy bags.

• Assisting with client directed non-invasive (non-inserted) care only when there is no need for skilled skin care or for observation. Otherwise must be reported to a nurse

• Assisting client with blood sugar checks; that is limited to opening containers and handling equipment. *Caregiver cannot perform procedures.*

• Record and report changes in the client’s physical condition, behavior or appearance to Supervisor or Care Coordinator