Care Provider
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Nordic Living
Position Description: Assisted Living Home- Care Provider
Day, Night, and casual shifts available
Homer, Alaska
Duties and responsibilities:
Our Care Providers are responsible for all aspects of homemaking for the residents. This includes but is not limited to keeping the common areas of the home clean, uncluttered, pleasant, and free of tripping hazards; plant and pet care; cooking healthy and tempting meals; mending or ironing clothes as needed; assisting with phone calls or mail; and generally being on the look-out for needs of any sort and meeting them.
Personal care of residents may include assistance with any or all of the following:
Bathing or showering
Brushing teeth, mouth and denture care
Feeding
Dressing
Laundry, mending, ironing
Toileting
Transferring
Social interaction
Phone calls, mail
Our care providers become the family of the residents they serve. They become very astute at observing changes in our residents’ health and mental status, and are the first line of defense in keeping our residents happy and healthy. The residents need you to constantly be observant, and to act on your observations.
As a care provider, you may be in a position to encounter some emotional, verbal or physical mistreatment from our residents. Accordingly, you must be very grounded, and able to defuse situations that could escalate or remove yourself from the situation until it can be dealt with productively.
General characteristics that will make you a success at this job are:
Responsibility
Reliability
Compassion
Honesty
Self-starting
Ability to work unsupervised
Good time management skills
Our facility has Covid-19 procedures and policies in place to protect residents and staff
If interested please email your resume and contact information.
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