Job Description
Job Description
PCA: Personal Care Assistant
Casual/Per Diem Float - Home Care
Title: PCA: Personal Care Assistant (Caregiver)
Status: Casual/Per Diem Float
Shift: Days/Shifts Vary
Department: Redstone @ Home
About the Personal Care Assistant (PCA) Role
Are you looking for a rewarding healthcare career where you can make a real difference? Redstone is seeking compassionate, dedicated Personal Care Assistants (PCAs) and Caregivers to provide high-quality resident care across our Greensburg, Murrysville, and North Huntingdon campuses.
What Redstone Offers You:
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Career Advancement & Tuition Reimbursement: We invest in your future! Pursue your educational goals with our competitive Tuition Reimbursement & Student Scholarship Programs.
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Top Staff-to-Resident Ratios: Enjoy a collaborative, positive work environment where you actually have time to care for your residents.
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Employee Recognition: We celebrate your hard work with regular staff appreciation events and reward programs.
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A Culture of Caring: Join a mission-driven, non-profit organization that puts people before tasks, valuing integrity, inclusion, and teamwork.
- Comprehensive Benefits Package: Click Here for a Full List of our Benefits!
What You Will Do:
As a Personal Care Assistant (PCA), you will provide direct patient care, psychosocial support, and daily living assistance to our residents. Key duties include:
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Personal Care: Assist residents with daily living activities (ADLs), including bathing, oral hygiene, grooming, skin care, and dressing. Assist with restroom use, bedside commodes, and routine incontinence care.
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Mobility Assistance: Help residents with walking, transferring, turning, positioning, and prescribed physical exercises.
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Meal Preparation: Help plan, prepare, and serve nutritious meals and prescribed diets, including kitchen cleanup.
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Medication Reminders: Assist clients with self-administering medications and prompt them via electronic reminder systems.
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Homemaking & Light Housekeeping: Maintain a clean environment through bed-making, light laundry, and occasional grocery shopping.
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Documentation: Observe, report, and accurately document resident status and the care provided.
Job Requirements:
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Education: High School Diploma or GED equivalent.
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License: Must possess a valid Pennsylvania Driver's License in good standing (free of major traffic violations).
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Transportation: Must have reliable, independent transportation (essential for assignments that require travel between campuses on the same day).
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Skills: Strong communication, excellent judgment, and a passion for senior care.
Why Choose Redstone?
- Serving Westmoreland County since 1980, Redstone is a trusted, faith-based, non-profit organization dedicated to treating each resident with respect and dignity. We offer a full continuum of care for older adults (55+), including Retirement Living, Personal Care, Long-Term Care, Rehabilitation, and Redstone@Home Hospice and Home Health Services.
- Our team operates on six core values: Respect, Quality, Truth, Teamwork, Life Balance, and Life-Long Learning.
We are excited and proud to announce, Redstone Presbyterian SeniorCare is a Great Place to Work Certified Organization!
Redstone Presbyterian SeniorCare and its Affiliates is an Equal Opportunity Employer and follows a practice of affirmative action in promoting equal employment opportunity. Redstone Presbyterian SeniorCare and its Affiliates do not discriminate on actions involving recruiting, hiring, training, on-the-job treatment and promotion.