Job Description
Job Type
Part-time
Description
At Caritas we believe every life deserves LOVE! If you agree, then please consider joining our team!! This part-time position affords someone the pleasure of serving the AMAZING residents of Fox River Assisted Living. This role is perfect for a patient person who enjoys helping others. Most importantly, candidates must have a passion for enriching the lives of senior citizens. If this sounds like you, and you're ready to work somewhere you can truly make a positive impact, please apply today!!!
Likely part-time hours may include: Mon-Sun 3pm to 8pm and/or 9am to 2pm.
PURPOSE: The Universal Service Worker monitors the health status of the clients/individuals and address their health-related needs, such as changing bandages, dressing wounds, or reminding them to take medication. The USW provides assistance with routine healthcare tasks and/or activities of daily living, bathing, toileting, or ambulation. We might also help with tasks such as preparing meals, doing light housekeeping, and doing laundry depending on the patient's abilities.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming.
- Give medication reminders.
- Provide personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
- Serve meals.
- Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care.
- Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor.
- Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.
- Assist and engage patients in exercises and/or daily activities.
- Assess the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
- Observe, receive, and otherwise obtain information from all relevant sources.
- Provide information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
- Identify information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
- Use relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
- Compile, code, categorize, calculate, tabulate, audit, or verify information or data.
Requirements
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE REQUIRED/PREFERRED Degree/Field Required: High school diploma (Related fields will be considered.)
Degree/Field Preferred: N/A
Additional Fields of Knowledge Important for the Role: Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. .
Experience Required: No minimum experience required but prefer previous health care experience (in caregiving role).
Licenses/Certifications Required: N/A
Licenses/Certifications Preferred: CNA
SKILLS REQUIRED Manager-specific: Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.
Basic: Active Learning - Understand the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. Active Listening - Give full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. Critical Thinking - Use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. Learning Strategies - Select and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. Mathematics - Use mathematics to solve problems. Monitoring - Monitor/Assess performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. Reading Comprehension - Understand written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents. Science - Use scientific rules and methods to solve problems. Speaking - Talk to others to convey information effectively. Writing - Communicate effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. Language - Able to read and write in English.
Social: Coordination - Adjust actions in relation to others' actions. Instructing - Teach others how to do something. Negotiation - Bring others together and trying to reconcile differences. Persuasion - Persuade others to change their minds or behavior. Service Orientation - Look for ways to help people. Social Perceptiveness - Be aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
Problem Solving/Decision-making: Complex Problem Solving - Identify complex problems and review related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. Time pressure decision-making - Make decisions without much analysis or time to consider alternatives.
Resource Management: Management of Material Resources - Obtain and see to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work. Personal Time Management - Manage one's own time and the time of others.
Technical: Operations Monitoring - Watch gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
Proficient Computer Skills In: N/A
Expert Computer Skills In: N/A
MENTAL EFFORT/COGNITIVE ABILITIES REQUIRED: Memory - Remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures. Performance of job tasks rely on memorization of tasks or sequences of events. Consider amount and type of information. Number Facility - Add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly. Oral Comprehension - Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. Oral Expression - Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. Problem Sensitivity - Tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem. Written Comprehension - Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. Written Expression - Communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS : Medium work. Exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES REQUIRED: Balancing - Maintain body equilibrium to prevent falling and walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. This factor is important if the amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium. Stooping/Kneeling/Crouching/Crawling - Bend body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles. Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees. Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine. Crawling. Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.Reaching - Extend hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction. Lifting - Raise objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles. Fingering/Grasping - Pick, pinch, type or otherwise work, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling. Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm. Feeling - Perceive attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips. Standing - Particularly for sustained periods of time.Walking - Move about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another. Sitting - Particularly for sustained periods of time. Pushing - Use upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward. Pulling - Use upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion. Speech Clarity/Talking - Express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. Includes the ability to understand the speech of another person. Hearing - Perceive the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound. Repetitive motion - Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers. Coordination, including eye/hand, hand/feet. Necessity to distinguish colors to perform job functions. Smell - Rely on smell to perform job functions safely.
VISUAL ACUITY: The worker is required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned or to make general observations of facilities or structures.
WORK CONTEXT/ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Subject to environmental conditions. Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. Subject to exposure to diseases/infections or bodily functions (from contact with others). Subject to wearing common protective or safety equipment, including but not limited to safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hearing protection, hard hats, or other PPE deemed necessary to perform the job tasks safely.
Other PPE Required: Mask
VEHICLE RELATED REQUIREMENTS: Access to reliable transportation to get to/from work: Required.
Access to a reliable automobile : Not required, but preferred.
Must provide proof of auto liability insurance (and continue to while working in this position): Not required, but preferred.
Must possess a valid driver's license: Not required, but preferred.
Additional license requirements that are necessary: N/A
Salary Description
$16.72/Hourly Caritas Family Solutions
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