$1000 BONUS Personal Caregiver/ Home Health Aide
$1000 BONUS for your first 500 hours worked in caregiving within 6 months or sooner!
Receive your $1000 bonus as soon as you work 500 caregiving hours within 6 months from your first caregiving shift. That’s just 20 hours a week for 6 months OR get it within 90 days working 40 hours a week! Please note this excludes hours working directly for facilities and you must be in good employee standing with no undocumented call offs.
- FLEXIBLE hours--create your own schedule! Hours available 24/7
- PAID Vacation
- FREE training, NO experience needed
- GUARANTEED raises
- OVERTIME available
- Bonus pay and promotions
- Leadership opportunities and a a team supporting you!
We are a home care agency, FirstLight of Akron, looking for compassionate and dependable caregivers (HHA), CNA, STNA, and LPN to provide non-medical home care to our clients in Summit, Stark, Medina, Portage and southern Cuyahoga counties. This requires a special, gifted, loving person to take on this role. We truly value our caregivers and want to support you as you build your career.
We welcome all experience levels. This role has very flexible hours that can fit around your academic schedule, you can work part time during the school year or full time over breaks. Our scheduling team will work with you to accommodate your needs as a student. This work can also be utilized to fulfill any health experience hours required for your field of study. It gives you an insider look at a rapidly expanding industry, home care, that will have a far-reaching impact on our economy. Additionally, you'll be working in what is predicted to be the largest single occupation by 2026 and fastest growing in US history--great exposure and talking points for any business student! We want to support you as you pursue your degree and begin to build your career path. Whether you're interested in working in healthcare directly, looking to have diversity of experience represented on your resume or just need a job that you can work around your academic schedule, this is a great opportunity for you. Extraordinary caregivers are the heart and soul of our company, come and join an amazing team!
Home Health Aide responsibilities include:
• Providing companionship and conversation
• Preparing and serving meals
• Help with bathing, grooming and incontinence care
• Light housekeeping and laundry
• Shopping, errands and transportation
• Other duties as assigned
Additionally, if you are interested in having the same, consistent schedule with GUARANTEED hours, you may be interested in our on-call caregiver position. Please inquire for more information.
For the role of personal caregiver or on-call caregiver, you must:
- Be at least 18 years of age
- Be able to lift 25+ lbs
- Have a valid driver's license, car insurance, and a safe vehicle
- Be willing to work one weekend shift a weekend (this can be as short as 3 hours on Saturday or Sunday)
- Be able to take and pass a drug test and background check
Please note, some clients can only be matched with certain genders as prescribed by legal, federally-recognized identification as part of a bona fide occupational qualification.
Pay starts at $12 an hour with opportunities for performance-based raises after your first 90 days. We also have shifts that pay $14 an hour, special one hour shifts that pay $25 an hour and urgent start shifts that pay $20 an hour-- these shifts are available on a limited basis. As of October 2021, all weekend shifts start at $15 an hour!