Caregiver Job Description
As a Caregiver with Kore Cares, your role is integral in ensuring the delivery of high-quality care to clients. This involves assisting elderly individuals or those with disabilities with various daily living activities, including housekeeping, meal preparation, laundry, and providing companionship. Your responsibilities extend to transportation for medical appointments or other essential errands, as well as addressing personal care needs such as bathing and grooming. By fulfilling these duties, you contribute to creating a safe, comfortable, and supportive environment for clients in their homes or care facilities, enhancing their overall well-being and quality of life.
Responsibilities and duties include but are not limited to:
Living out our values of excellence, reliability, making a difference, and a growth mindset
Assist clients in living their best life in the place they call home
Assist with personal cares such as bathing, toileting, dressing and personal hygiene
Assist with ambulation and transfer of clients with or without adaptive equipment
Remind clients to take medications
Complete light housekeeping such as dusting, vacuuming, sweeping, mopping, cleaning bathrooms, cleaning dishes and taking out trash
Plan and prepare meals, assist with feeding and assist with kitchen clean up
Provide socialization and companionship
Prepare and maintain records of client condition and services performed, reporting changes in client condition to the agency office team
Transportation client to locations outside the home such as physicians’ offices or on outings, using a motor vehicle
Run errands for client such as getting groceries or household shopping
All other duties outlined in client care plan
expectations and standards:
Easily adapts to change
Demonstrate trust with business operation information
Maintains confidentiality
Treat all co-workers, clients, and others with dignity and respect at all times
Ensure the highest quality of care is provided to clients
Ensure client satisfaction
Provide care for clients that maintains client dignity and meets physical, emotional and spiritual needs
Comply with agency handbook, policies and procedures
Works harmoniously with team to achieve Kore Cares goals and mission, fulfills our vision and uphold the Kore Cares values
education and experience:
Patient or client care experience preferred but not required
required skills and abilities:
Must be able to physically perform the duties of the position
Must be able to read, write, understand and speak English
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Excellent time management skills
Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
Must have reliable transportation and current valid driver’s license
Proof of automobile insurance and eligibility for employment in the United States
physical demands:
Walking, sitting, bending and standing with lifting up to 50 pounds at times