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Lifesteps Inc
Clymer, PA, US
Summary
Provide in-home caregiver services including personal care, housekeeping, and meal preparation for individuals with special needs. Assist clients with mobility equipment and accompany them to community activities and medical appointments.
Job Description
accessAbilities, a local Human Services agency, is immediately hiring caring and enthusiastic, part-time staff to assist individuals with In Home Caregiver services in the Clymer, PA area for our Home & Community services program.
In Home Caregivers (also known as Attendants) support participants with household duties and personal care services. Staff assist with laundry, housekeeping, shopping and preparing meals, and help with errands. Duties also include transfers from/to bed, bathing, dressing, grooming and assisting with personal support equipment such as wheelchairs, manual/electric lifts, and leg braces, etc.
We also support individuals who have special needs or intellectual and developmental disabilities. These Caregivers can provide companionship to individuals while also helping them with household chores, shopping, attending medical appointments, going out to eat or to a movie, etc. Employees of accessAbilities work to assist the special needs clients with maintaining or improving their skills that allow them to live and participate in the local community.
We offer Flexible Part-time Hours and Shifts. Work when you are available. Hours can be as little as 4 per week up to 28 per week. You decide.
No experience is necessary. Paid training is provided. Prior experience as a direct care worker or home health aide is helpful, but not required.
Caregiver Position Requirements:
• Must be 18 years or older
• Ability to lift, carry, push and/or pull up to 40 lbs. without assistance and up to 200 lbs. with assistance (hoyer lift)
• Valid driver’s license and auto insurance
• Ability to obtain ACT 33/34 and FBI clearances required.
Apply today by clicking the blue "Apply" button below, or:
- online at www.accessabilities.org
- email your resume to [email protected]
- call 724-832-8272, extension 1076
accessAbilities Home & Community Services – Apply Today!
EOE
Part-Time: Varies
Our mission is "helping individuals and families with life's changing needs."
Vision
Improve the quality of life for members of our communities.
Mission
Help individuals and families with life’s changing needs by developing programs and providing services which will improve their quality of life.
Company Overview
Lifesteps is a local non-profit agency that has offered programs and services to individuals and families with life’s changing needs since 1923.
Description
Today, we provide care along life's journey for children, families, adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including autism, and seniors. We offer services like FREE child developmental screenings; Early Education Centers for children of all abilities; services for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities such as day programs, life sharing and community homes; and a medically-monitored senior day program.
General Information
We serve 10 western Pennsylvania counties and are dedicated to providing quality care in a family-focused environment. We provide programs and services in Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Greene, Indiana, Lawrence, Mercer, Washington, and Westmoreland counties.
Our central facility is located at:
383 New Castle Rd.
Butler, PA
16001
Founded
1923
Company size
501-1,000 employees
Industry
Individual and Family Services
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Butler, PA
Our mission is "helping individuals and families with life's changing needs."
Vision
Improve the quality of life for members of our communities.
Mission
Help individuals and families with life’s changing needs by developing programs and providing services which will improve their quality of life.
Company Overview
Lifesteps is a local non-profit agency that has offered programs and services to individuals and families with life’s changing needs since 1923.
Description
Today, we provide care along life's journey for children, families, adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including autism, and seniors. We offer services like FREE child developmental screenings; Early Education Centers for children of all abilities; services for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities such as day programs, life sharing and community homes; and a medically-monitored senior day program.
General Information
We serve 10 western Pennsylvania counties and are dedicated to providing quality care in a family-focused environment. We provide programs and services in Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Greene, Indiana, Lawrence, Mercer, Washington, and Westmoreland counties.
Our central facility is located at:
383 New Castle Rd.
Butler, PA
16001
Founded
1923
Company size
501-1,000 employees
Industry
Individual and Family Services
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Butler, PA