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Oak Tree Lodge Board and Care
Helping seniors since 1995
EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION (click link)
Fill out application and email to pamoaktreelodge@comcast.net or fax to 707-838-0820
Job
Description
Personal Care Aides (CAREGIVER)
Basic Skills
- Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Talking to others to convey information effectively.
- Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
- Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
Social Skills
- Actively looking for ways to help people.
- Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
- Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
- Teaching others how to do something.
- Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
Complex Problem Solving Skills
- Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
Technical Skills
- Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
- Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
- Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
- Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
- Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.
System Skills
- Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
- Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
Resource Management Skills
- Managing one's own time and the time of others.
- Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
- Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
- Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
Task
- Administer bedside or personal care, such as ambulation or personal hygiene assistance.
- Prepare and maintain records of client progress and services performed, reporting changes in client condition to manager or supervisor.
- Perform healthcare-related tasks, such as monitoring vital signs and medication, under the direction of registered nurses or physiotherapists.
- Participate in case reviews, consulting with the team caring for the client, to evaluate the client's needs and plan for continuing services.
- Care for individuals or families during periods of incapacitation, family disruption, or convalescence, providing companionship, personal care, or help in adjusting to new lifestyles.
- Perform housekeeping duties, such as cooking, cleaning, washing clothes or dishes, or running errands.
- Instruct or advise clients on issues such as household cleanliness, utilities, hygiene, nutrition.
- Plan, shop for, or prepare nutritious meals or assist families in planning, shopping for, or preparing nutritious meals.
- Transport clients to locations outside the home, such as to physicians' offices or on outings, using a motor vehicle.
- Provide clients with communication assistance, typing their correspondence or obtaining information for them.
- Train family members to provide bedside care.
Work Activities
- Assisting and Caring for Others
- Documenting/Recording Information
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
- Getting Information
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
- Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
Detailed Work Activities
- Administer basic health care or medical treatments.
- Assist individuals with special needs.
- Develop plans for programs or services.
- Document client health or progress.
- Drive vehicles to transport patrons.
- Maintain client information or service records.
- Monitor health or behavior of people or animals.
- Perform housekeeping duties.
- Prepare foods or meals.
- Provide counsel, comfort, or encouragement to individuals or families.
- Teach health or hygiene practices.
Tools
- Patient lifts or accessories
- Mechanical patient lifts
- Hoyer lifts
- Patient lifting devices
- Shower or bath chairs or seats for the physically challenged
- Shower chairs
- Hydraulic tub seats
- Telecommunication devices TDD or teletypewriters TTY for the physically challenged
- Adjustable widemouth pliers
- Alarm systems
- Back or lumbar or sacral orthopedic softgoods
- Bedpans for general use
- Blood pressure cuff kits
- Braille devices for the physically challenged
- Canes or cane accessories
- Crutches or crutch accessories
- Digital camcorders or video camera
- Digital cameras
- Electric vibrators for rehabilitation or therapy
- Electronic blood pressure units
- Electronic medical thermometers
- Glucose monitors or meters
- Hammers
- Hearing aids for the physically challenged
- Lower extremity prosthetic devices
- Medical acoustic stethoscope or accessory
- Oxygen therapy delivery system products accessories or its supplies
- Paging controllers
- Patient bed or table scales for general use
- Patient shifting boards or accessories
- Personal computers
- Screwdrivers
- Specimen collection container
- Tablet computers
- Upper extremity prosthetic devices
- Vascular or compression apparel or support
- Voice synthesizers for the physically challenged
- Walkers
- Walking braces
- Wheelchairs
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