Lead Personal Care Assistant

Job description

Employment Type: Full time Shift: Day Shift Description: The lead personal care assistant/worker is responsible for providing various care services necessary for attending to the personal needs, support, and health status of participants. Assist department manager with scheduling to ensure adequate staffing and other duties as requested. Provide support and guidance to fellow colleagues in the department. Trinity Health LIFE Kinder Park, a member of Trinity Health PACE, is seeking a Personal Care Assistant Lead. Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) coordinate and provide all needed preventive, primary, acute and long-term care services so that older individuals can continue living in the community. PACE is an innovative model that enables individuals who are 55 years old or older and certified by their state to need nursing home care to live as independently as possible. Through PACE, today’s fragmented health care financing and delivery system comes together to serve the unique needs of each individual in a way that makes sense to the frail elderly, their informal caregivers, health care providers and policy makers. Many PACE participants get most of their care fr...