Pca | Personal Care Assistant

PCA: Personal Care Assistant
Casual
Days or Evenings
Title: PCA: Personal Care Assistant
Status: Casual (Per Diem Float), up to 20 hours/week
Shift: Days or Evenings
Department: Redstone @ Home
Our PCA positions service residents on our Greensburg, Murrysville and North Huntingdon Campuses.
On the job training provided!
What does Redstone offer me?

• Comprehensive benefits including opportunities for Tuition Assistance, On-going Career Development and Employee Recognition Programs!
• Redstone puts people before tasks: Staff are connected and part of a team of caring, hard-working professionals!
• A shared Vision to be Difference Makers and World Changers for our residents, clients and the community.

What will I do as an employee with Redstone?
As a PCA Personal Care Assistant, supporting the Redstone mission will include the following responsibilities:

• Provide psychosocial support and personal care to the client, including bathing (tub, shower, sponge, or bed bath), oral hygiene, hair care, shampooing, shaving, skin care, nail care, foot care, and dressing.
• Provide homemaking services, such as bed making, light housework, laundering, and errand running with client/family's agreement.
• Assist clients to self-administer-medications. Verbally prompt or assist clients to respond to electronic medication reminder systems.
• Plan, shop, prepare, or assist with nutritious meals and prescribed diets; includes cleanup of kitchen area.
• Assist client with mobility, including walking, transferring, turning, and positioning including the use of transfer devices such as the Hoyer lift and transfer board. Assist client with prescribed exercises to which the client and the aide have been trained.
• Assisting to the toilet and incontinence care including assistance with urinal, bedside commode, toilet use and bedpan.
• Observing, reporting, and documenting client status and the care or service furnished.

What do I need for this role with Redstone?

• Must have a passion for providing compassionate and heart-felt care to our residents and clients.
• Must possess a valid Pennsylvania Driver's License in good standing, free of traffic violations. Excellent driving skills with good judgment. Reliable, independent transportation for use when assignment includes travel between campuses on the same day.
• Must possess a High School Diploma or GED

What makes Redstone unique?

• Our collaborative approach modeled by our Leadership reflect our Core Values: Respect, Quality, Truth, Teamwork, Life Balance and Life-Long Learning.
• Serving Westmoreland County since 1980, Redstone is a name people have grown to know and trust. We offer a full array of services for ages 55+ from Retirement Living, Personal Care, Long Term Care & Rehabilitation, and Redstone@Home Hospice, Home Care & Home Health Services.
• A non-profit faith-based organization, Redstone employs a philosophy based upon a ministry of caring and treating each resident with respect and dignity.

Redstone Presbyterian SeniorCare and its Affiliates is an Equal Opportunity Employer and follows a practice of affirmative action in promoting equal employment opportunity. Redstone Presbyterian SeniorCare and its Affiliates do not discriminate on actions involving recruiting, hiring, training, on-the-job treatment and promotion.