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Barton Woods Assisted Living Direct Care Worker in Freeland, Michigan
A direct support professional works to assist people with mental and physical disabilities or limitations. In this career, your job duties include helping people in a residential assisted living community.
Providing care including but not limited to:
- Bathing and/or showering, dressing, toileting, all personal hygiene (i.e.: brushing teeth, denture care, brushing hair, applying deodorant) and ADLs.
- Help individuals with household routines such as laundry and meal planning, cooking, washing dishes, cleaning bathrooms, picking up rooms, vacuuming and dusting.
- You will be called upon to lift, transfer, and when necessary to prevent injury, to physically manage an individual.
- May be asked to assist with transporting residents to and from activities as well as helping with simple exercises.
- Administering medication and assisting with breathing treatments, inhalers, and oxygen management.
- In this field you are working with medically fragile individuals and therefore may have to deal with death and dying on the job.