What are the responsibilities and job description for the PCA position at Appalachian Agency For Senior Citizens Inc?
PERSONAL CARE AIDE
GRADE: 5 REPORTS TO: RN PCA Supervisor
POSITION REQUIREMENTS: Must possess a Personal Care Aide certificate from an approved program or be a Certified Nursing Assistant licensed with the Virginia Board of Nursing and be in good standing. Prefer experience in providing personal care assistance to patients.
SUMMARY: Medicaid Personal Care Services are long-term maintenance, supportive services to enable individuals to remain in the home, as opposed to institutional or nursing home placement. Provides services such as assisting with Activities of Daily Living, Instrumental Activities of Daily Living, and reporting changes in client's conditions and needs.
Use of therapeutic interpersonal skills in all contacts in the work setting is required. Personal care service provides assistance with personal hygiene, while supporting the client’s physical, emotional, and nutritional needs, along with environmental maintenance necessary for clients to remain in their home. Problems encountered range from routine to complex in nature; significant public contact is required and position requires independent decision-making and action.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assist with dressing, undressing, and bathing of client including routine skin care to
include maintenance and care of external condom catheters.
- Assist with grooming of hair, cleaning of nails, and shaving with electric razor.
- Assists with care of teeth, mouth, and dentures.
- Provide incontinence care and toileting assistance: can include emptying of external
indwelling catheters, i.e. foley or suprapubic catheters, urostomy, or colostomy
5. Assists individual to ambulate, turn/change positions, or transfer; often involves lifting greater than 20-40 lbs. or more at a time and unassisted.
6. Prepare meals and assist individual with eating or feeding, following special diets or
swallow restrictions,
7. Assists individual with self-administered medications; may remind the individual of
medications at prescribed times; doesn’t include pouring of, determining dosage of,
instilling, injecting, or applying medications in any form.
8. Provides supervision for those individuals who require the physical presence of an aide to
insure their safety during times when no other support system is available.
9. Provides routine wound care that does not include sterile technique, may wash with soap
and water and apply a non-sterile bandage.
10. Obtain and report vital signs: temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure, 02 saturation, and weight. Recognize and report significant changes in client.
11. Provide light housekeeping of the individual's main living areas (bed, living, kitchen and
bathrooms), to sweep, mop, dust, change bed linens.
12. Lists supplies needed for purchase to grocery shop, and assist with mail if no caregiver
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
- Must be physically able to perform duties, often lifting 20-40 lbs. or more unassisted, frequent bending, stooping, reaching, stair climbing, or positioning of clients.
- Ability to understand and carry out exact oral or written instructions without close or constant supervision.
- Must possess and maintain an electronic device capable of sending and receiving email, to
record worked time, and for production of aide record.
4. Must possess good interpersonal skills to remain professional, ethical, and courteous to effectively deal with clients and maintain strict confidentiality.
5. Must provide own personal transportation in work capacity.
6. Ability to successfully complete all assigned trainings/evaluations/competencies/license as
required by the agency, and for no less than (12) hours annually.
7. Must be telephone accessible and willing to work flexible hours throughout the service area.
8. Must maintain bank account for direct deposit of wages earned.
PCA
Appalachian Agency For Senior Citizens Inc -
Abingdon, VA
