Starting Your Career as a Professional Caregiver
Many Americans in the last year have left their jobs in search of more meaningful work and a workplace that fosters curiosity and growth. Many individuals find working as a professional caregiver checks those boxes. The service a caregiver provides directly impacts a senior’s life. Working with a respected home care agency ensures you have the proper environment and opportunities to grow professionally.
What is Caregiving
A caregiver is an individual who provides nonmedical care to another person to help them live their highest quality of life. There are two main categories of caregivers; family and professional. A family caregiver is a person who provides care to a family member, often an adult child to their again parents. A professional caregiver is a trained individual who assists clients to live more comfortably and safely at home.
Types of Caregiving Services
As a professional caregiver, you can work with at-home care agencies like Visiting Angels, where you’ll provide seniors with various customized services to help the age in place.
- Companion Care- Companion care is a basic level of care provided to seniors who can take care of themselves but need additional assistance around the house. As a caregiver, you’ll help run errands, assist with appointments, cook meals, offer mobility assistance, perform light housekeeping, and engage in meaningful companionship.
- Personal Care- Personalized care provides the same level of companion care but with more personal care such as personal grooming, showering, and toileting.
- Palliative Care- Clients with a chronic illness may seek palliative care where you provide personal care services, but with training to understand the best approach to caring for someone with the individuals’ specific condition.
- Respite Care- Sometimes, family caregivers need help, and they’ll hire a part-time or temporary professional caregiver through respite care. As a respite caregiver, you may provide various services, but with the additional goal of putting the primary family caregiver at ease.
Visiting Angels also train caregivers in various specialized care to provide services through our different care programs.
- Ready-Set-Go Home- When a client returns home after a hospital stay, you help them transition home and provide care to reduce their chances of readmission.
- Dementia Care- Clients with dementia, including Alzheimer’s, often have different needs and concerns. You’ll learn how to work with dementia patients to help them care for themselves and prevent wandering or falls.
- End of Life Care- When clients are ready to enter the final stages of life, you work alongside a hospice team to help the individual feel safe and comfortable.
- Safe and Steady Fall Prevention- Falling is one of the top concerns for seniors and families. You’ll learn how to keep clients safe in their homes and reduce their risk of falling.
Working with Visiting Angels
Visiting Angels is a locally owned home care agency dedicated to positively impacting the community by providing personalized at-home care to seniors. We also create a positive work environment where our caregivers can thrive. We offer competitive pay, flexible hours, clear career paths with a scholarship program, bonus opportunities, paid training, paid time off, reimbursable mileage, and more!
Our Farmington office serves Farmington, Aztec, Bloomfield, Navajo, Dam, Flora Vista, and the surrounding areas. We’re currently hiring full-time and part-time caregivers who are empathetic, dependable and have a strong work ethic. If you’d like to start your caregiving journey with Visiting Angels, apply online today.