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Employment Type:

Full time

Shift:

Day Shift

Description:

PERSONAL CARE ASSISTANT

**Location:** Mercy LIFE West Philadelphia

**Status:** Full time

**Shift:** Monday through Friday 8 am to 430 pm

**Incentive:** 1st Day Health Benefits

Position Purpose:

The personal care assistant/worker is responsible for providing various care services necessary for attending to the personal needs, support, and health status of participants.

Position Details:

This position will primarily consist of home care assignments. However, occasional facility work will also be required.

Position will require working one weekend a month and rotating holiday coverage.

What you will do:

• Engage in ongoing participant assessment and monitoring and report on services provided and the self-care abilities of participant.

• Provide personal care assistance with activities of daily living, including toileting, showers, eating, and grooming.

• Assist in the maintenance of physical activity, exercise, and walking.

• Identification of safety hazards and emergency situations and initiating corrective action as able.

• Assist with general activities such as conversing with participants, recreation activities, meal and snack serving, and housekeeping.

• Assist in identifying signs and symptoms indicating physical, emotional, or behavioral change in participants and reporting these signs to the center staff and/or supervisor

• Escort participants to appointments as necessary.

• Assist transportation staff with loading and unloading of participants from vehicles. Assist participants being transported in PO vehicles as needed.

Minimum Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or equivalent required.

• Minimum of one (1) year of documented experience working with a frail or elderly population or if less than one (1) year of experience, must receive appropriate training from the PACE organization on working with a frail or elderly population upon hiring.

• Experience in a long-term care facility or with a community-based geriatric program preferred.

• Must be action-oriented, manage conflict well, be customer focused, have high decision quality and flexibility to adapt to ongoing change.

• Ability to work with minimal supervision and exercise independent judgment.

• Superior written and verbal communication and presentation skills appropriate for audience comprehension.

• Valid drivers license and use of personal vehicle for home care visits

• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to perform multiple duties and functions related to daily operations while maintaining excellent customer service.

• Position may require 10% travel within the Centers geographic region and use of personal vehicle.

Position Highlights and Benefits:

• Comprehensive benefit packages available, including 1st Day medical coverage, dental, vision, paid time off, 403B and educational assistance.

• Access to wages earned daily through Daily Pay.

• Ability to earn incentives through our Employee Referral program.

• Warm and supportive environment with a truly patient-centered focus.

• Comprehensive Orientation and professional development opportunities

Ministry/Facility Information

**Mercy LIFE West Philadelphia** is a part of **Trinity Health PACE. Trinity Health PACE** programs are nationally recognized for providing high quality, comprehensive care in the communities we serve.  We are one of the largest PACE providers in the country and a part of Trinity Health, which is one of the largest not for profit, faith-based health care systems in the nation.

**Trinity Health PACE** programs offer continuous, quality care to the elderly, allowing them the independence of living at home. Seniors who qualify for nursing home care alternatively have the option to receive comprehensive care from an interdisciplinary team of experts, all focused on improving participants’ health.

At our centers, seniors receive clinical and rehabilitation therapy and build relationships with doctors, nurses and fellow participants – all under one roof.

We serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.

Our core values: Reverence, Commitment to Those Who are Poor, Safety, Justice, Stewardship, Integrity

Our Commitment

Rooted in our Mission and Core Values, we honor the dignity of every person and recognize the unique perspectives, experiences, and talents each colleague brings. By finding common ground and embracing our differences, we grow stronger together and deliver more compassionate, person-centered care. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.

EOE including disability/veteran