Companion Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Experience as a caregiver.
• Strong communication skills, patience, attentive listening, comfort with long conversations, and good eye contact.
• Ability to redirect and encourage gently without being overpowering.
• Warm and affectionate manner, with comfort offering appropriate physical reassurance when welcomed.
• Ability to provide ADLs and IADLs as needed.
• Reliability and consistency.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with older adults who are grieving or resistant to care.
• Dementia or cognitive-support experience.
• Maturity, emotional grounding, and meaningful life experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide companionship, conversation, and gentle redirection.
• Build a predictable daily rhythm using a cue-and-support approach that preserves the client's independence.
• Engage the client in meaningful activities such as puzzles, tablet games, and sorting family photographs.
• Provide ADLs and IADLs as needed, led by the relationship rather than a task list.
• Encourage the client to eat and assist with practical tasks, such as clearing expired food and tidying, with her agreement.
• Approach or sit on the client's right to accommodate her reduced vision on the left.
• Provide reliable, consistent care to support continuity and trust.

Benefits

• Opportunity for advancement
• Paid time off