Job Description
This role provides personal care to clients at home, assisting with bathing and grooming during 8-hour shifts. Certified nursing assistants perform toileting for 20 clients weekly, nail care using emery boards, and range of motion exercises with stretching techniques. The position handles transfers using mechanical lifts weighing up to 300 pounds, oral feeding with utensils, and vital checks using thermometers and stethoscopes.
BAYADA Home Health Care delivers compassionate care enabling independence, complying with North Carolina mandates for 50 years. The not-for-profit organization employs stable teams for consistent home visits across 500 communities.
Assistants conduct light housekeeping like laundry folding in 3 loads per visit, meal preparation for balanced diets, and ambulation assistance with walkers. Collaboration involves weekly care plan reviews with nurses and daily check-ins via app. A challenge includes reliable transportation for multiple locations, maintaining empathy while handling 10 hours of overtime monthly.
Compensation offers weekly pay at competitive rates, flexible scheduling via app, paid time off, health insurance, and 401k. Work as PRN with short commutes near home, supported by 24/7 clinical managers. Additional perks include scholarship programs, positive environment with tools, and referral bonuses up to $500.
Responsibilities
- Assist with activities of daily living including bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, nail care
- Light housekeeping
- Range of motion/exercises
- Transfers/use of mechanical lifting devices
- Oral feeding
- Vital sign checks: temperature, pulse, respiration
- Home management tasks including laundry, meal preparation, bed making
- Assisting with ambulation
- Medication assistance
Requirements
- Minimum one year general work experience
- Current CNA license listed in good standing