New Beginnings Home Care: PC Homemaker

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following: Other duties may be assigned:

• Enables consumers to stay in their homes.
• Assist the client in the Activities of Daily Living (ADL) including personal care, hygiene, baths, shampoo, skin and nail care and Ambulation.
• Assist Client with ambulation and transferring. Client must be 50% weight with ambulation and transfers. 
  • Transfer Examples:
    • Bed to Chair/Wheelchair and vice versa, in and out of shower/tub, commode 
• Follows care plan as directed by designated supervisor.
• Monitors consumers condition by observing physical and mental condition, intake and output, and exercise.
• Supports consumers by providing light housekeeping and laundry services, shopping for food and other household requirements, preparing and serving meals and snacks, and running errands.
• Assists consumers by providing personal care services, such as bathing, dressing, and grooming.
• Helps consumers care for themselves by assisting with the use of cane or walker, special utensils to eat, adaptive equipment, reminders with medication and person-centered support for personal hygiene.
• Notifies designated supervisor of changes, concerns, or unusual conditions with consumer.
• Maintains a safe, secure, and healthy environment.

• Maintains security precautions.