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Seeking caregivers for cheerful, appreciative senior with ALS in Cobble Hill

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Seeking kind, reliable, experienced Caregivers to assist cheerful and appreciative senior with all aspects of daily living. Due to ALS, he uses a power wheelchair, communicates with an iPad text-to-speech app, and takes all meds and nutrition though a tube feed. All transfers are performed with mechanical overhead lifts; no manual lifting or turns. Our Cobble Hill home is adult-only, quiet, upbeat, and cat friendly (2). Work is much lighter and pay better than at residential care facilities. Shifts and Compensation: Seeking up to 3 staff to cover Monday through Sunday care. Most care activities are performed 8am-7pm with considerable down time. Client meditates, reads, and does home therapies that need only to be started and stopped an hour later. Spouse covers most night shifts. Responsibilities: Care includes, but is not limited to, dressing and personal care (including incontinence care, toileting, and baths), transfers, light physical therapy, medications and meals by tube-feed pump, and light housekeeping. Client requires assistance to use his nebulizer and biPap machines and other home-therapy devices. Qualifications: • References required • Nursing skills, Care Aide training, and First Aid certification all strong assets but not required; full training will be provided by loving spouse • Experience with wheelchair clients and mechanical lifts a benefit • Familiarity with nebulizer, biPAP, and enteral feeding machines a benefit • Able to communicate effectively with a non-verbal person; patient and compassionate • An active listener, able to remember detailed care and safety instructions • Driver’s licence • Non-smoking • Prior to hiring, short-listed candidates would be required to provide a clean criminal record check, proof of Covid-19 double-vaccination, and screening for hepatitis C and TB (any costs would be fully reimbursed) Probable start date in December. If you are interested, please respond with your resume and available days of work (for 12-hour or 24-hour shifts).

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October 18, 2021
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