SEM Haven is looking for a Homemaker to create a positive and pleasant environment in the home by assisting residents with daily life through housekeeping, meal service, and personal care, ensuring services align with federal, state, and local standards.
Requirements
- Ability to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of dietary programs
- Must be able to speak, read & write the English language in an understandable manner.
- Must be able to see and hear or use prosthetics that will enable these senses to function adequately to ensure that the requirements of position can be fully met.
- State Tested Nurse Aide certificate or Feeding Assistant certificate preferred
- Food safety training preferred
Responsibilities
- cross-trained to perform housekeeping, meal service and personal care service to assist residents in daily life in the household
- perform whatever tasks are necessary to maintain life on the household
- assist with food preparation/serving
- picking up clutter, removing trash, cleaning spills
- transporting residents
- attending household meetings/learning circles
- fulfilling simple requests for residents
Other
- works cooperatively and respectfully with residents, coworkers, families, visitors and volunteers to create a positive and pleasant environment in the home.
- provide the residents of SEM Haven with the support, friendship, and most importantly, kindness, so they may live as independently as they wish to in their homes.
- treat everyone you come into contact with as a person deserving respect.
- Patience, listening skills, verbal and non-verbal communication skills
- Humor – interpersonal skills
- Respect for all people - residents, co-workers, family members, doctors, volunteers, and anyone who visits our home
- Respect for possessions – keeping living and work areas clean, orderly and presentable at all times as if company is on the way
- Flexibility – willingness to modify job duties for the overall good of the home and our residents.
- Sufficient education to demonstrate functional literacy.
- Freedom from illegal use of drugs and freedom from use and effects of drugs and alcohol in the workplace is essential.
