NHCH Caregiver Live-in at Nuvance Health in Danbury, Connecticut

Job Description:

Health Quest and Western Connecticut Health Network have combined to form a new nonprofit health system. The name for the new health system will be Nuvance Health. The new health system was created to provide communities across New York’s Hudson Valley and western Connecticut with more convenient, accessible and affordable care.

Summary:

Live-in caregiver, providing assistance to clients of Nuvance Health Caregivers at Home(NHCH), with activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) as directed on clients individual care plans, within the guidelines of the certified nursing assistant (CNA) scope of practice and according to the NHCH policies and procedures.

Responsibilities:

1. Assists the client with personal care activities including bathing, oral hygiene, feeding and dressing.

2. Assists the client with exercises, ambulation, and transfer activities. This includes knowledge in use of devices such as canes, walkers, crutches, and lifts.

3. Independently assists the client with meal preparation/cooking and/or feeding. Must have working knowledge of special diets, diet restrictions, and techniques to maintain sanitary kitchen conditions to prevent food-borne illnesses.

4. Assists the client with medication prompts to remind the client to self-administer his/her medications.

5. Identifies and reports changes in client condition.

6. Independently provides basic homemaking and laundry assistance for client in the home.

7. Follows policy and procedure for assigned client care activities.

8. Maintains a safe and orderly work environment in the clients� homes.  This includes maintaining professional boundaries and integrity of client financial and personal information in clients homes, as well as following network/agency infection and prevention policies and procedures in clients homes.

9. Provides companionship and engages in activities of interest to the client.

10. Assists the client with light pet care as needed, such as walking a dog, feeding a dog/cat, changing a cat litter pan.

11. Transporting the client to appointments and errands.

12. Fulfills all compliance responsibilities related to the position.

13. Performs other duties as assigned.

Other Information:

Working Conditions:

Manual: significant manual skills/motor coord & finger dexterity

Occupational: Significant occupational risk

Physical Effort: Very Heavy effort. May exert up to 50 lbs. force

Physical Environment: Significant exposure to dirt, odors, noise, human waste, etc.

Company: WCHN Affiliates

Org Unit: 713

Department: Nuvance Health Caregivers at Home

Exempt: No

Salary Range: $16.00 - $26.83 Hourly