Personal Care Assistant - Peninsula Volunteers : Job Details

Job Title: Personal Care Assistant – Rosener House

Position Summary:

The Personal Care Assistant (PCA) provides compassionate support to program participants by assisting with activities of daily living, ensuring their safety, and fostering a welcoming environment. The PCA works closely with the interdisciplinary team to promote participants' health, independence, and dignity.

• Assist participants with activities of daily living, including transfers, ambulation, eating, and toileting.
• Provide supervision and maintain participant safety throughout the program.
• Observe and report any changes in participant status promptly.
• Participate in assessment and care planning as a member of the interdisciplinary team.
• Assist staff with meal and snack service, including special diets and feeding under direction of Speech Therapist.
• Support environmental safety and sanitation practices.
• Help maintain a welcoming, cheerful, and protective atmosphere for all participants.
• Communicate effectively on a one-to-one basis with participants.
• Maintain confidentiality of participant information at all times.
• Assist Rosener House Nurse within scope of practice by monitoring heights, weights, and vital signs.
• Provide assistance to therapists as needed.
• Assist with program activities under the guidance of the Program Manager.
• Be trained and prepared to implement emergency procedures for groups or individuals.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Training and experience working with impaired elders preferred.
• Physical ability and education in providing personal care assistance and transfers.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to follow written and oral instructions.
• Ability to work collaboratively within an interdisciplinary team.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and manage time effectively.

Certifications & Clearances:

• CPR and First Aid certification required.
• Clearance from California Department of Social Services and Department of Justice prior to employment.
• Good physical health verified by a health screening, including a negative tuberculosis (TB) test.

Experience & Philosophy:

• Commitment to a care philosophy promoting health, independence, and dignity for participants.
• Experience communicating compassionately with elderly participants.

• Ability to occasionally lift up to 50 pounds to assist participants.
• Frequent walking, standing, bending, stooping, twisting, kneeling, reaching, and carrying.
• Regularly pushing wheelchairs.
• Ability to assist participants with toileting needs and transfers.
• Must pass TB test and fitness-for-duty exam.