Caregiver Jobs in Wasco, CA

Wasco is an honest place to start a caregiving search because its needs are specific. The city is 87.4% Hispanic or Latino, 67.6% of residents speak Spanish at home, more than a third of those speak English less than very well, and agriculture employs 26.5% of the workforce. The older generation is small in share (6.4% of residents are 65 or over) but present in a fifth of households, usually as a grandparent living with a working family. That family needs someone for the hours the fields and the Wasco State Prison reception centre take them away, and the someone they hire will be expected to speak Spanish and to cook. The postings below come from within 50 miles, so Shafter, Delano, McFarland and the north end of Bakersfield are all in view.

Two practical points for a profile. First, driving: Wasco Dial-A-Ride does not operate outside the city limits, there is no hospital in town, and the nearest emergency departments are Adventist Health Delano to the north-east and the Bakersfield hospitals to the south-east, so a caregiver with a car can serve the whole of the northern valley and one without is limited to the city. Second, IHSS: with household incomes in Wasco well below the county's, many older residents qualify for Medi-Cal and for IHSS hours, and the relative or neighbour who holds that case is the usual Wasco caregiver. State on your profile whether you are already enrolled through the Public Authority in Bakersfield. No caregivers have joined from Wasco yet; a complete profile here will be the first that local families see.

State law is the only law here. No licence is needed to be hired directly by a family for non-medical care; agency aides must be on the Home Care Aide Registry, and independents can register voluntarily ($35, Live Scan). Wasco IHSS providers enrol with the Kern County Public Authority at 5357 Truxtun Avenue in Bakersfield, which runs fingerprinting and a compulsory in-person orientation for the entire county. A CDPH nurse assistant certificate is needed for work in a facility or for nursing tasks; Bakersfield College trains CNAs at its Panorama campus and runs a counselling line for Wasco and Shafter students from its Delano Campus. Everyone paid to care for an elder is a mandated reporter; Kern's 24-hour line is (800) 277-7866. The requirements guide covers the rest.