Caregiver Jobs in Delano, CA

Delano is the second-largest city in Kern County and the centre of its own small market: the postings on this page come from within 50 miles, which takes in McFarland, Wasco, Shafter and the southern Tulare County towns as far as Porterville and Tulare, but Bakersfield families are a long drive south and usually hire closer to home. Searches from here are plain ("caregiver jobs delano ca"), and most paid care in town is either IHSS or a private arrangement with a family. The people who need help are largely the parents and grandparents of a farm-working population: 26.5% of Delano's workers are in agriculture, 35.2% of residents were born abroad, and the city's two state prisons on West Cecil Avenue employ many of the rest on shift patterns that leave gaps at home in the early morning and evening.

Language is the first thing a Delano family looks for. 62.6% of residents speak Spanish at home and nearly a third of those speak English less than very well; 11.9% of the city is Filipino, against 2.2% for the county as a whole, so Tagalog or another Philippine language is an asset here that it is almost nowhere else in Kern. Say which languages you use with a client, not just with the family. Then say whether you drive: Delano Area Dial-A-Ride and the four DART fixed routes stop at the city limits and the surrounding county pocket, so a caregiver taking a client to Bakersfield specialists needs a car. No caregivers have joined from Delano yet, so a complete profile with alerts on will be seen by the first families who post.

Nothing extra applies in Delano beyond state law. Non-medical care hired directly by a family needs no licence; the Home Care Aide Registry is mandatory for agency aides and voluntary ($35, Live Scan) for independents who want to be checkable. IHSS enrolment is handled countywide by the Public Authority at 5357 Truxtun Avenue in Bakersfield, with an in-person orientation, so plan a trip south before you can be paid for a relative's authorised hours. A CDPH nurse assistant certificate is needed for facility work and nursing tasks; Bakersfield College's Delano Campus gives you the counselling line for its programmes, and the Nurse Assistant Training Program itself runs at the Panorama campus. Everyone paid to care for an elder is a mandated reporter; Kern's 24-hour abuse line is (800) 277-7866. See the requirements guide.