Job Description

**Location:** CHA East Cambridge Care Center

**Work Days:** Per Diem, Must be available to work weekends

**Category:** Nurse Support

**Department:** CHA PACE

**Job Type:** Per Diem On Call

**Work Shift:** Various Shifts

**Hours/Week:** 0.00

**Union: No**

Under the direction of the Operations Supervisor and Center Director, and as a member of the PACE Interdisciplinary team, the Personal Care Attendant provides assistance with Activities of Daily Living for participants in their home environment and/or as prescribed in their plan of care and daily assignment.

Job Duties:

Assist participant in bathing, including complete, partial or sponge in tub or shower.

Assist or provide laundry service as assigned.

Ensure participant home/environment is clean and tidy to promote health and safety.

Communicate effectively with management, peers, and healthcare team members.

Complete daily home care or day center assignment, providing support and assistance with ADLs.

Completes mandatory annual education specific discipline CHA PACE

Completes daily home care of day center assignment, proving support and assistance with Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)

Performs duties within the scope of PCA practice (ie: no vital signs, finger sticks, wound care, specimen collection, foot soaks, or similar clinical tasks)

Qualifications:

High school diploma or equivalent

At least one year working with an older adult population required

Experience working as a personal care attendant, home health aide, or other direct care professional preferred

In keeping with federal, state and local laws, Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) policy forbids employees and associates to discriminate against anyone based on race, religion, color, gender, age, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to establishing and maintaining a workplace free of discrimination. We are fully committed to equal employment opportunity. We will not tolerate unlawful discrimination in the recruitment, hiring, termination, promotion, salary treatment or any other condition of employment or career development. Furthermore, we will not tolerate the use of discriminatory slurs, or other remarks, jokes or conduct, that in the judgment of CHA, encourage or permit an offensive or hostile work environment.

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