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EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Caregiver Employment
- Basics of Opportunities - Although
we will hire and train select individuals who are new to the caregiving
field, Helping Hands is always looking for highly trained, experienced,
responsible, and caring individuals to join what we believe to be the best
staff of caregivers in the area. Best because we firmly believe that the
caregiving staff is the heart and soul of the agency, and members of this
staff deserve great honor and respect for the altruistic work that they do.
Consequently, we do everything within our power to materially and
spiritually demonstrate support of our caregivers, from paying the highest
wages to providing the best benefits possible in the area. As a result, the
best remain in the employment of Helping Hands, and over the course of time
they have come to constitute a large core of very qualified, able and
skilled caregivers.
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Flexibility in Opportunities - Based
upon the premise that caregivers do best when they are able to do what they
enjoy doing, when, where and with whom they enjoy working, Helping Hands
does everything within its power to listen to and consider caregivers'
wishes in service assignments. So caregivers are free to stipulate when they
would like to work (i.e., days and hours of the week), where they would like
to work (i.e., cities, towns and neighborhoods), the type of service they
would like to provide (i.e., personal care, homemaking, or habilitation),
and the type of client they would like to work with (i.e., elderly,
children, male, female, developmentally disabled, physically impaired,
psychologically impaired, and so forth). Of course, there can never be
any guarantees that stipulated wishes will be met, but there is a guarantee
that we will always try to do so.
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Caregiver Employment Benefits -
Helping Hands Caregiver Staff receive:
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Starting
wage of $8.50 or more per hour, depending upon training, experience and
status of required certifications.
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Regular
reviews, the first after 3 months employment and annually thereafter, with opportunities
for wage increases. Special reviews whenever and wherever indicated.
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Differential
pay of $1.00 more per hour for emergency fill-in services.
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Differential
pay of up to $5.00 more per hour above hourly wage for particular services
provided developmentally disabled clients.
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A minimum
guarantee of 2 hours pay on all legitimately scheduled jobs, whether actually
worked or not, except in rare special cases agreed to by caregiver.
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Holiday pay
(one and one-half times regular wage) for services provided clients on
recognized holidays.
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Mileage
expense reimbursement in some private pay cases.
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Free CPR and
First Aid training and certification, initial training classes and required
continuing training classes.
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Free TB skin
tests.
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One (1) week
paid vacation per year for caregivers providing over 1040 annual hours of
service (calculated and awarded in January of each year, based upon average
number of hours worked each week the previous year).
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Bonuses paid
for:
a) Referrals of new caregivers who are hired and who provide at least one month
of satisfactory service.
b) Referrals of new clients who sign up for and utilize at least 6 hours of
services per week.
c) Christmas, based upon length of employment and number of hours of services
provided.
d) Special occasions, as determined by the business owners.
- Caregiver Requirments - Applicants for
all positions must:
a)
Have at least 6 month’s experience of work and/or service in the same or a
similar field of activity.
b)
Present the following items:
1) A completed application for employment. A resume may be submitted in addition to, but not in lieu of, a completed application.
2) Copy of current picture ID
3) Copy of Social Security Card
4) Completed and signed Employment Eligibility Verification form, Criminal
Record Self-Disclosure form, W4 and Arizona Withholding forms.
5) Signed Caregiver Acknowledgement and Agreement form.
6) Current Driver’s License if position requires driving as a part of work
duties.
7) Current State required automobile registration and insurance if position
entails running errands or client transport in applicant’s vehicle.
QUALIFIED CAREGIVER EMPLOYMENT ELIGIBILITY
(Requirements established under terms of contract with Yavapai County
Department of Medical Assistance, Long Term Care, and/or Arizona DES
Division of Developmental Disabilities)
Each applicant’s file must contain the following items as a condition of
employment. All items may be obtained in and through a Helping Hands office
if an applicant is not already in possession of all of them.
While it is preferred that applicants present all items prior to job
assignments, exceptions may be made in individual cases. However, in no case
may service assignments be maintained without presentation of all required
items within two (2) weeks of the date of assignment.
a) A current Fingerprint Clearance Card, OR, if the applicant does not have
a card, a completed fingerprint card and application (Fingerprints can be
taken in the office). A fingerprint processing fee of $52.00 must be
presented with the Fingerprint card, or arrangements made for payment of the
fee that is satisfactory to Helping Hands.
b) Current CPR Certification
c) Current First Aid Certification or CNA Registration
d) Current TB Test (PPD or Chest X-Ray, within past year)
e) 3 good, verifiable References from non-relatives.
f) Training certificates and/or passing test grades in required areas of
training.
NOTE: All of the above may be obtained from Helping Hands at no cost to an
applicant (with the exception of the Fingerprint Clearance Card).
Meeting the above requirements will enable caregivers to work with both
Private Pay Clients and Yavapai County Longer Term Care funded clients.
Additional training (or proof of training) is required of applicants who
wish to work with Developmentally Disabled Clients.
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