Consumer Directed Personal Assistant
Summary
Title: | Consumer Directed Personal Assistant |
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ID: | 1042 |
Location: | Erie County / Niagara County |
Description
STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY:
The Consumer Directed Personal Care Assistant is a person who, under the direction of the consumer or their representative, provides assistance with nutritional and environmental support as an extension of self-directed patients.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education and Experience:
• Able to follow the directions
• Able to provide personal and other environmental care to the directing consumer.
Specific:
• Is able to read, write, understand and carryout directions or instructions, record messages and to keep simple records.
• Sympathetic attitude toward providing services for consumers at home who home medical problems.
• Access to utilization of public or private transportation system.
• Is able to use the telephone, good communication skills.
• Functions independently with minimal supervision from the consumer.
• Ability to move intermittently throughout the work day, inclusive of sitting, standing and bending, pushing, pulling or moving objects and consumer
• Ability to relate to and work the various personality styles, ill, disabled and elderly.
• Read, write and communicate in English.
• Maturity, emotional and mental stability.
• Experience in personal care or homemaking.
PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Plan, purchase, prepare and serve basic diets.
• Assist with care of teeth and mouth.
• Assist with grooming – care of hair, including shampoo, shaving, the ordinary care of nails and general skin care.
• Assist with bathing consumer in bed, tub or shower.
• Assist consumer with eating.
• Assist consumer with dressing.
• Maintain safe environment.
• Arrange schedule so that the consumer follows medical recommendations such as increased physical activity.
• Report changes in the patient’s needs and conditions to the supervising nurse.
• Keep simple records.
• Perform incidental household tasks essential to the patient’s health needs, such as:
- Light housekeeping.
- Making and changing beds.
- Dusting, vacuuming and mopping the rooms used by patient.
- Dishwashing.
- Tidying kitchen.
- Tidying bedroom.
- Tidying bathroom.
- Listing needed supplies.
- Shopping for patient if no other arrangement possible.
- Personal laundry of consumer if no family member able or available; this may include ironing and mending.
- Sending linen to laundry.
• Record consumer care activities daily.
• Prioritize work/care tasks to ensure all duties and patient visits are completed as assigned.
• Utilizes universal precautions and infection control techniques as necessary.
ACCOUNTABILITY:
• Consumer
• Consumer's representative
The Consumer Directed Personal Care Assistant is a person who, under the direction of the consumer or their representative, provides assistance with nutritional and environmental support as an extension of self-directed patients.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education and Experience:
• Able to follow the directions
• Able to provide personal and other environmental care to the directing consumer.
Specific:
• Is able to read, write, understand and carryout directions or instructions, record messages and to keep simple records.
• Sympathetic attitude toward providing services for consumers at home who home medical problems.
• Access to utilization of public or private transportation system.
• Is able to use the telephone, good communication skills.
• Functions independently with minimal supervision from the consumer.
• Ability to move intermittently throughout the work day, inclusive of sitting, standing and bending, pushing, pulling or moving objects and consumer
• Ability to relate to and work the various personality styles, ill, disabled and elderly.
• Read, write and communicate in English.
• Maturity, emotional and mental stability.
• Experience in personal care or homemaking.
PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Plan, purchase, prepare and serve basic diets.
• Assist with care of teeth and mouth.
• Assist with grooming – care of hair, including shampoo, shaving, the ordinary care of nails and general skin care.
• Assist with bathing consumer in bed, tub or shower.
• Assist consumer with eating.
• Assist consumer with dressing.
• Maintain safe environment.
• Arrange schedule so that the consumer follows medical recommendations such as increased physical activity.
• Report changes in the patient’s needs and conditions to the supervising nurse.
• Keep simple records.
• Perform incidental household tasks essential to the patient’s health needs, such as:
- Light housekeeping.
- Making and changing beds.
- Dusting, vacuuming and mopping the rooms used by patient.
- Dishwashing.
- Tidying kitchen.
- Tidying bedroom.
- Tidying bathroom.
- Listing needed supplies.
- Shopping for patient if no other arrangement possible.
- Personal laundry of consumer if no family member able or available; this may include ironing and mending.
- Sending linen to laundry.
• Record consumer care activities daily.
• Prioritize work/care tasks to ensure all duties and patient visits are completed as assigned.
• Utilizes universal precautions and infection control techniques as necessary.
ACCOUNTABILITY:
• Consumer
• Consumer's representative
This opening is closed and is no longer accepting applications