ENERGETIC AND HAPPY COMPANION JOB AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW!
Great shared shift available right now! We want you! This may be temporary or continue. Do you like to work independently in a unique home environment? We are looking for a professional female attendant/guide/mentor to work back-up together with another caregiver with one delightful young woman with intellectual disabilities in her gorgeous modern home in Novato. Just contact us if you are interested!
HERE ARE THE FANTASTIC AVAILABLE SHIFTS RIGHT NOW!
Monday-Friday 3:30 PM-8:30 PM
or
Possibly Weekend Shift: Saturday and Sunday 8:30 AM-8:30 PM
This is a support position with a funny, adorable and likeable woman in her own fabulous home. We love her and you will, too. She is struggling with acting out when frustrated so we are providing two companions to be with her so everyone can have support. This job is perfect for students, nurses, moms, or just someone who is caring, experienced, capable and wants to work. A caregiving background is a requirement. The job demands confidence and experience with responsiblity.
We are providing two-on-one assistance for this young woman to help her learn to be calm and safe when she gets stressed. No restraint is used and there is no extreme violence or danger.
Since this is a residential situation with a female, the client is requesting a female only for care, support and mentoring.
The Job: Companionship
The job is in Novato. Your client has an intellectual and physical disabilities and needs guidance with daily life and care. She walking, talking, laughing and charming. Your kindness, intelligence, patience, required experience with people with disabilities, personal communication skills, cooking and organizing skills, energy, active lifestyle, sense of humor and common sense will serve you well in this interesting and fun position. The job will be engaging the person you support, assisting the existing caregiver to teach the person we are supporting to use kind and safe communication skills instead of off-putting words or inappropriate physical actions. You will be loved and appreciated by our agency!
You will be offering activities, adventures, engagement and community involvement as well as Supported Living Services to help her companion and this lovely person stay safe and happy in her own lovely apartment and community.
You will be helping with some laundry, cooking, shopping, and some housekeeping, but not more than 20% of the time. You will engage in great home and community activities that you plan, life guidance, protection, educational opportunities and daily plans. You will be working independently but provided assistance and training from the central agency, Little Red Wagon, as you learn. Your experience with people with disabilities is required, as well as your self-confidence, high energy level, strong cooking, organizing and shopping skills, professionalism, competence, toughness, and willingness to learn.
Your Pay and Benefits
1. You will be paid a training rate of $16.04 an hour for all training and meeting hours, for about twenty hours. This will go by quickly!
2. After training you will immediately be paid $20.00 an hour for the day shifts above, $16.04 an hour to sleep on an assigned sleep shift if you have one.
3. You will be paid .67 a mile for all work or activity mileage. For example: if you drive 100 miles during work, you are paid $67.00!
4. All event, movie, concert, event expenses will be reimbursed.
5. You will be offered 40 hours of paid sick leave
5. You will be paid 1.5 x for any overtime over 40 hours a week.
6. We also pay $20.00 a month toward your data plan.
7. You will be enrolled in CalSavers IRA saving plan if you so choose
Requirements
You will drive for errands and activities. You must have your own insured, clean, reliable car with at least two seat belts, a clean driving record (we will check)
Be computer literate, access to a laptop for training, access to daily email and your own cell phone, preferably a smart phone.
Because there is driving involved in the job, you cannot be on any medication with a driving warning or that limits driving.
You must have a current CPR certification or arrange for one within 30 days.
You must speak very clear English as your client sometimes has difficulty understanding language.
You must write clear English as there is daily written documentation.
A college degree is not required but you must be drug-free, willing to work in a smoke free environment, with a happy heart. We will drug test.
You will be fingerprinted and thoroughly background checked so you can confirm with us what we already assumethat you are trustworthy.
To apply, please reply to this ad in an email and do these two steps:
1. Send your current resume in an attached Word file or pdf with your full residential address included.
2. Also include a short cover letter that you write yourself.
We look forward to hearing from you!
COVID-19 Precautions: You must be vaccinated and boosted against COVID-19 to work with us.
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