VISITING ANGELS FARMINGTON, NM 505-516-1150
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Starting Your Career as a Professional Senior Caregiver

Starting Your Career as a Professional Senior Caregiver

Professional caregiving is growing in popularity as a career for individuals seeking rewarding work and work-life balance. Suppose you’re one of the many individuals making the transition or think professional caregiving might be the right choice for you. In that case, you can take a few steps to help prepare as you embark on your career as a professional caregiver. 

What is the role of a professional caregiver?

The first step to starting your career as a professional caregiver is understanding what professional care is and what tasks they complete. A professional caregiver is a trained individual who provides care to another person, usually an older adult. A professional at-home caregiver, the types of caregivers employed at Visiting Angels, provide care services to seniors at the client’s home. 

When you work as a professional at-home caregiver, the primary goal is to help the client continue living independently at home. Your role is to help with daily living activities such as light housekeeping, meal preparation, and laundry. You may also assist with more personal tasks such as bathing, toileting, grooming, and dressing. Clients may also require transportation to a doctor’s appointment or medication reminders. 

Professional caregivers only provide nonmedical assistance, an essential distinction between caregiving and nursing or working as a certified nursing assistant (CNA). Medical tasks include changing bandages, dressing wounds, administering medications, and cutting fingernails or toenails, all of which require specific medical training and are not within the role of a professional caregiver. 

Building your skills 

It’s common to experience a learning curve when starting your career as a professional caregiver, especially if you’re from a different industry. Luckily, if you’re working with an agency like Visiting Angels, you’ll undergo comprehensive training to ensure you have the skills and confidence needed to provide quality care to clients. 

Skills you’ll learn outside the how-tos of caregiving tasks include communication, time management, and leadership. 

  • Communication: Strong communication skills mean you can effectively and efficiently convey information to others. In caregiving, strong communication will help you build a trusting relationship with the client and their families. 
  • Time management: Some days of caregiving will encompass many activities and tasks, and you need to have strong time management skills to ensure you complete everything in the allocated time. Time management also includes getting to clients’ homes at the start of shifts and providing deliverables to the office when needed. 
  • Leadership: When you meet with a new client, some caregiving tasks can initially feel uncomfortable, but honing your leadership skills can help your clients feel comfortable and safe in your presence. Leadership skills include communication and time management but require you to be empathetic, kind, and supportive. 

Why work for Visiting Angels 

Visiting Angels Farmington is a locally owned home care agency that takes pride in positively impacting the seniors in our community. We hire empathetic and dependable caregivers with a strong work ethic to assist aging adults with non-medical in-home care like light housekeeping, personal grooming, meal preparation, and medication reminders. 

Professional caregivers who work for Visiting Angels receive competitive pay, flexible scheduling, a clear career path with a scholarship program, paid training, bonus opportunities, paid time off, reimbursable mileage, and one-on-one client interactions. That’s not to mention the supportive team of office staff and peer caregivers in our agency to provide assistance and guidance whenever needed. 

Caregivers with Visiting Angels Farmington assist seniors in Farmington, Aztec, Bloomfield, Navajo, Dam, Flora Visita, and the surrounding New Mexico communities. If you want to learn more about career opportunities with Visiting Angels, apply online or call 505. 516. 1150.

Serving Farmington, Aztec, Bloomfield, Navajo Dam, Flora Vista and Surrounding Areas

Visiting Angels FARMINGTON, NM
1515 20th St #F
Farmington, NM 87401
Phone: 505-516-1150

Serving Farmington, Aztec, Bloomfield, Navajo Dam, Flora Vista and Surrounding Areas

Visiting Angels FARMINGTON, NM
1515 20th St #F
Farmington, NM 87401
Phone: 505-516-1150