Appalachian Agency For Senior Citizens Inc·Bluefield, West Virginia
Provide long-term maintenance and supportive services to help individuals remain in their homes by assisting with activities of daily living and personal hygiene. Monitor and report changes in client conditions while performing light housekeeping and nutritional support.
Reports to: RN PCA Supervisor/Home Care Coordinator
Medicaid Personal Care Services are long-term maintenance, supportive services to enable individuals to remain in the home to prevent institutionalization or nursing home placement.
Provides services such as assisting with Activities of Daily Living, Instrumental Activities of Daily Living, and reporting changes in the client's condition and needs.
Use of therapeutic interpersonal skills is required.
Personal care services assist with personal hygiene, supporting the client’s physical, emotional, and nutritional needs, and environmental maintenance necessary for clients to remain in their homes.
Problems encountered range from routine to complex; significant public contact is required, and the position requires independent decision-making and action.
Duties: And responsibilities:
● Assist with dressing, undressing, and bathing of the client, including routine skin care to
include maintenance and care of external condom catheters.
● Assist with grooming of hair, cleaning of nails, and shaving with an electric razor.
● Assists with the care of teeth, mouth, and dentures.
● Provide incontinence care and toileting assistance: can include emptying of external
indwelling catheters, i.e., Foley or suprapubic catheters, urostomy, or colostomy
● Assists the individual to ambulate, turn/change positions, or transfer; often involves lifting greater than 25-50 lbs. or more at a time unassisted, performing extensive bending, stooping, standing, squatting, kneeling, crouching, reaching, and safely transferring clients using mechanical lifts.
● Prepare meals and assist the individual with eating or feeding, following special diets or
swallow restrictions.
● Assists the individual with self-administered medications; may remind the individual of
medications at prescribed times; doesn’t include pouring of, determining dosage of,
instilling, injecting, or applying medications in any form.
● Provides supervision for those individuals who require the physical presence of an aide to
insure their safety during times when no other support system is available.
● Provides routine wound care that does not include sterile technique, may wash with soap and water, and apply a non-sterile bandage. Obtain and report vital signs: temperature, pulse,respiration, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, and weight. Recognize and report significant changes in the client.
● Light housekeeping of the individual's main living areas (bed, living, kitchen, and
bathrooms), to sweep, mop, dust, and change bed linens.
● Lists supplies needed for purchase, to grocery shop, and assists with mail if no caregiver.
1. Ability to understand and carry out exact oral or written instructions without close or constant supervision.
2. Possess and maintain an electronic device capable of sending and receiving email, for access to schedules and care plans, to record worked time, for the production of the client record, and to access off-site training courses. 3. Possess good interpersonal skills to remain professional, ethical, and courteous to provide effective and appropriate services, while maintaining strict confidentiality.
4 Maintain an unrestricted driver's license and automobile insurance.
5. Provide own, reliable personal transportation in work capacity.
6. Complete all assigned trainings, evaluations, competencies, and license renewals, as
required by the Agency, including a minimum of (12) hours of annual education.
7. Must be telephone accessible and willing to work flexible hours throughout the service area.
8. Maintain a bank account for direct deposit of wages earned.
1. Must be physically able to perform duties, often lifting 25-50 lbs. or more unassisted.
2. Lift, push, pull, or move clients
3. Frequent bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, crouching, reaching, stair climbing, or
changes in body positions
4. Demonstrate proficiency in skills (hands-on)
5. Must be in good physical and mental health to work in varied environments, which may
include pets and smoke.
6. A current, negative TB skin test
7. Successful completion of CPR and First Aid
Market context
In West Virginia, nursing and personal care aide roles are typically in steady demand because long-term care, home health, and assisted living settings rely on consistent direct-care staffing. These positions are competitive when candidates already hold CPR/First Aid, can safely lift and transfer residents, and show readiness for hands-on resident support. On this platform, the requirements and benefits are AI-summarized from the original job description, helping you review fit faster; if you plan to apply, confirm your aide training and certification details before submitting.
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