Job Details

Consumer Directed PCA

Essential Functions and Scope of Responsibilities/Job Duties: The Consumer Directed PCA will perform personal care services to senior and disabled adults in their personal residence. Specific tasks are approved for individual consumers. These tasks can include, but are not limited to the following approved hands on care:

• Bathing, shampooing, personal hygiene, skin care, grooming, dressing, filing of toenails and both cutting and filing of fingernails, excluding nail care for recipients who are diabetic or have poor circulation
• Assisting to and from the bathroom, assisting with bedpan or other toileting activities, provide general hygiene care of a colostomy, ileostomy, or an external catheter, giving suppositories that do not contain medication, providing digital stimulation, and providing routine care of incontinent recipients
• Physical activities and passive ROM (range of motion) exercises
• Meal preparation and assistance with eating
• Physical assistance with transferring the recipient in and out of bed, chair, or wheelchair and helping the recipient walk with the support of a walker, cane, gait belt, braces, or crutches
• Physical assistance with positioning or turning a non-ambulatory recipient in a bed or chair
• Light housekeeping: changing bed linens and assisting with personal laundry
• Assistance with shopping
• Assistance with travel to and from routine medical and dental appointments
• Assistance with the application of elastic bandages and support hose
• Physical assistance with the use and minor maintenance of respiratory equipment
• Physical assistance with putting on and removing a prosthetic device
• Assistance with self-administered routine oral medication, eye drops, and skin ointments that assistance may include reminding the recipient and placing the medication within the recipients reach
• Physical assistance with health maintenance activities, urinary system management, bowel treatments, administration of medications, tube feedings, and wound care
• Required by law to report abuse and neglect to the proper authorities

Education Requirements: High School Diploma or GED Specific training courses in this field: CPR/First Aid upon request of recipient

Qualifications and/or Experiences: Must be 18 years of age Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds Must be free of communicable diseases Must be able to pass a federal background check Must possess the ability to communicate with the recipients to whom they are assigned and with the supervisor Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Authority: Directed daily supervision is given by recipient or the personal representative and periodic supervision from the PCA supervising nurse and overall supervision by Easterseals Director of PCA Services