Caregiver SS [1217]

Job Description

Job Description

Position : Caregiver SS [1217]

Program : Amarillo, Texas – Specialized Services

Salary : $15.66 / hr.

Shift available : Full-time (Monday - Friday from 8 am - 4 pm)

At Texas Panhandle Centers (TPC), you’ll be part of a caring team dedicated to making lives better for over 10,000 individuals and families each year across the Texas Panhandle. As a non-profit, TPC provides a wide range of services from mental health and substance use support to intellectual and developmental disability care, empowering clients of all ages to achieve dignity and independence. With seven service centers located throughout the region, our staff work together with our clients to achieve our mission to create an accessible system of care that supports individual choice and truly make a difference. We invite you to join us in our vision of “Making Lives Better!”

Essential duties and responsibilities of the Caregiver :

• Staff will maintain ethical and professional communications at all times using respectful Trauma-Informed Care language
• The Caregiver performs direct care services for individuals attending the Day habilitation / I.S.S. program
• Provides supervision and care to clients with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
• Responsibilities of this position include feeding, toileting, transportation, escort to medical appointments and teaching social and independent living skills to verbal and non-verbal individuals
• Requires staff to also work weekends and holidays
• Responsible for attending to the needs of the persons in the home. Responsibilities include, preparing meals, feeding, toileting, transportation, medication distribution, and teaching social and independent skills.
• Works under the supervision of the Director of Specialized Services
• Complete necessary documentation within requested timelines
• Meet established productivity standards
• Has no financial responsibility but is accountable for assigned property
• Adheres to the TPC Business Code of Conduct and reports concerns if ethical and / or business standards defined in the code are compromised

Required qualifications of the Caregiver to be successful in the job :

Preferred qualifications of the Caregiver to be successful in the job :

At TPC, passion and meaningful work are rewarded! We offer employees :