Department:
In-Home Services
Essential Functions and Scope of Responsibilities/Job Duties:
An employee can work at Easterseals Alaska as a DSP, Personal Care Assistant (PCA), or Job Coach simultaneously. The PCA will perform personal care services to senior and disabled adults in their personal residences. Specific tasks are approved for individual clients. These tasks can include, but are not limited to, the following:
Approved hands-on care with the following items, specific to each client's approved plan:
- Bathing, personal hygiene, grooming, dressing, meal preparation, and assistance with eating;
- Assisting client to and from the bathroom, assisting with bedpan or other toileting activities, providing general hygiene care of a colostomy, ileostomy, or an external catheter, giving suppositories that do not contain medication, providing digital stimulation, and providing routine care of incontinent clients;
- Physical activities and passive ROM (range of motion) exercises;
- Physical assistance with transferring the client in and out of bed, chair, or wheelchair, and helping the client walk with the support of a walker, cane, gait belt, braces, or crutches;
- Physical assistance with positioning or turning a non-ambulatory client in a bed or chair;
- Light housekeeping: changing bed linens and assisting with personal laundry;
- Assistance with shopping;
- Assistance with travel to and from routine medical and dental appointments;
- Assistance with the application of elastic bandages and support hose;
- Physical assistance with the use and minor maintenance of respiratory equipment;
- Physical assistance with putting on and removing a prosthetic device;
- Assistance with self-administered routine oral medication, eye drops, and skin ointments that may include reminding the client and placing the medication within the client's reach;
- Physical assistance with health maintenance activities, urinary system management, bowel treatments, administration of medications, tube feedings, and wound care;
Note: All PCAs are required by law to report abuse and neglect to the proper authorities.
Education Requirements:
High School Diploma or GED
CPR/First Aid certification
Qualifications and/or Experiences:
- Must be 18 years of age;
- Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds;
- Must be free of communicable diseases;
- Must be able to pass a federal background check;
- Must possess the ability to communicate with the clients to whom they are assigned and with the supervisor;
- Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
Authority:
Directed daily supervision is given by the client or the personal representative, periodic supervision from the PCA supervising nurse, and overall supervision by the Easterseals Director of PCA Services
Must follow the work agreement & approved service level authorization approved by Senior & Disability Services. Any changes in health & safety must be reported to the Director of PCA Services.
Work Conditions:
- All approved services must be provided in the client's home.
- May encounter occasional body fluids.
Confidentiality:
All information, written and verbal, pertaining to Easterseals clients and their families is to be treated as privileged, confidential, highly personal information and shall be shared only with Easterseals consultants and parents/guardians with a legitimate need to know. Violation of this policy will be grounds for termination of employment.
Reports To:
Director PCA Services
Pay Rate:
$23/hr.
