Caregiver, Home Care, Healthcare Nursing

Helping Hearts USA LLC - Downtown Nashville, TN

Compensation and Job Details

Compensation: $17.00–$27.00 per hour

Job Type: Full-Time & Part-Time

Experience

Required:

Minimum 5 year

Education Required: High School Diploma or Equivalent

Location: Downtown Nashville, TN

About the Role

Helping Hearts USA LLC is currently seeking compassionate, dependable, and skilled caregivers to provide high-quality, hands‑on care for a bedbound client in the Downtown Nashville area. This is a meaningful opportunity for caregivers who take pride in providing attentive, respectful, and detail-oriented care. We are looking for someone who understands the importance of dignity, patience, safety, consistency, and emotional support when caring for clients with higher levels of need.

This client requires a caregiver who is confident, observant, professional, and experienced with personal care, repositioning, skin integrity, blood sugar support, and daily comfort care.

Skills Needed for a Bedbound Client

• Communication

Skills:

Ability to clearly communicate with the client, family members, office team, and other healthcare providers to understand and support the client’s needs.

• Patient Observation and Assessment: Ability to observe and report changes in the client’s physical, emotional, and psychological condition, including any signs of discomfort, decline, skin concerns, or changes in behavior.
• Personal Care Support: Knowledge of proper techniques for assisting with activities of daily living, including bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, hygiene care, and maintaining the client’s dignity at all times.
• Mobility and Repositioning Support: Experience safely repositioning a bedbound client using proper body mechanics and techniques to help prevent pressure ulcers and promote comfort.
• Nutritional Support: Ability to assist with meals, feeding, hydration, and monitoring intake while following the client’s dietary needs and preferences.
• Infection Control: Strong understanding of hygiene practices, proper handwashing, cleanliness, and reducing infection risks in the client’s environment.
• Pain and Comfort Awareness: Ability to identify signs of pain or discomfort and provide appropriate support within caregiver scope, such as repositioning, comfort measures, and notifying the proper team members when needed.
• Emotional Support: Ability to provide reassurance, encouragement, companionship, and patience to help the client feel safe, respected, and cared for.
• Documentation: Ability to accurately document care provided, observations, completed tasks, and any changes in the client’s condition.
• Team

Collaboration:

Willingness to work as part of a coordinated care team to help ensure the client receives consistent, reliable, and high-quality care.

Experience and Skills Required

• At least 1 year of caregiving experience
• Experience with personal care
• Experience or comfort with blood sugar management/support
• Knowledge of safe transfer and repositioning techniques
• Understanding of proper body mechanics
• Ability to help prevent and monitor for pressure sores or skin breakdown
• Ability to observe and report changes in physical and emotional condition
• Familiarity with medication reminders and supporting care plans
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build trust with clients and families
• A compassionate, professional, and detail-oriented approach to care

Key Responsibilities

• Personal Care: Assist with bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, hygiene, and other daily living needs while preserving the client’s dignity and promoting independence whenever possible.
• Positioning and Mobility: Safely reposition the client to support comfort, circulation, and skin integrity. Use proper techniques to help reduce the risk of pressure sores.
• Companionship: Provide meaningful interaction, conversation, reassurance, and emotional support to reduce isolation and promote well-being.
• Light Housekeeping: Maintain a clean, safe, and organized environment, including tidying, dusting, vacuuming, laundry, and keeping the client’s space comfortable.
• Meal Preparation: Prepare nutritious meals based on the client’s dietary needs and preferences. Support hydration and safe food…