Job Description
The Rochelle and surrounding areas need your help!
Home Instead is hiring part time caregivers to perform the essential work of keeping aging adults safe and comfortable at home. Home Instead provides a variety of non-medical services that allow aging adults to remain in their home and meet the challenges of aging with dignity, care and compassion.
Care Professional Benefits
- $16/hr, 1.5x for overtime and holidays, $0.70/mile when driving your car while on shift
- Paid Twice a Month via Direct Deposit
- 2 Week Schedule
- Paid Training
- Paid Uniform Tops
- Paid Time Off
- 401K with Up to 4% Match
- Blue Cross Blue Shield HMO Insurance Plans (Full-Time only)
- Humana Dental Insurance (Full-Time only)
- Humana Vision Insurance (Full-Time only)
Duties include, but are not limited to:
- Companionship and conversation
- Light housekeeping tasks and meal preparation
- Medication and appointment reminders
- Assistance with grooming and bathing
- Assistance with toileting and incontinence issues
- Alzheimer’s Care
- Provide transportation to appointments and errands as needed
Prior caregiving experience is preferred but not required.
Prior to working for our clients, all Home Instead caregivers—we call ours Care Professionals, or Care Pros for short—will go through specific paid training designed by Home Instead and will receive an in-house certification in Personal Care tasks. These tasks include demonstrating ability to assist our clients with grooming, bathing, continence care, and mobility. After training, our Care Pros will feel confident going into the client’s home and helping to support their emotional, physical and mental well-being.
Requirements to be a Home Instead Care Pro are:
- Valid driver's license and a reliable vehicle, with a willingness to transport clients as needed is a requirement
- This position is primarily for clients in areas such as Rochelle, Chana, Byron, Oregon, Steward, Creston, Lindenwood, Monroe Center, and surround communities.
- Ability to treat and care for aging adults and their property with dignity and respect
- Ability to communicate with clients in a friendly and compassionate manner
- Demonstrated reliability and trustworthiness
- Must be available to work flexible shifts
- Preferred availability of 7am-5pm Monday-Sunday for part-time employment