Student Home Assistant - Dementia Village

## Description

**Live on-site, train hands-on, and launch your health-care career while caring for people with dementia!**

**The Commitment**

24+ hours each week in the Dementia Village

One-year term: August 2027 – August 2028

Flexible shifts scheduled around your classes

**Make a lasting impact with Agrace**

Join Agrace, a nationally recognized nonprofit leader in hospice and palliative care. If you are looking for a role that helps support meaningful, patient-centered care, this is your opportunity to make a difference!

**How You’ll Make a Difference (Essential Functions)**

The Dementia Village Student Home Assistant provides direct care, supervision, and support to residents in a Community-Based Residential Facility (CBRF) dementia village setting. This role focuses on person-centered care, promoting dignity, independence, and meaningful engagement. Student Home Assistants support residents with activities of daily living (ADLs), assist with household tasks, contribute to a homelike environment, and actively engage residents in daily routines and meaningful activities.

**Key Responsibilities**

Assist Residents with Activities of Daily Living

• Review resident care plan and plan day according to assigned household.
• Assist with ambulation, mobility, and transferring to/from sitting and standing.
• Assist residents with bathroom functions like toileting and incontinence care.
• Assist residents with eating and drinking as needed.
• Assist residents with showering and dressing, when scheduled.
• Distribute medications as delegated by the dementia village registered nurse in compliance with DHS83 regulations.
• Observe and report changes in resident condition to nursing or supervisory staff
• Maintain accurate and timely documentation in accordance with facility policy and resident care plan
• Daily housekeeping and laundry
• Administer medications as directed by Physician

Be a Supportive Companion to Residents

• Socialize and engage with residents over games, looking at photos, reading, and other activities.
• Assist with setting up, offering activities, and ensuring residents participate in scheduled dementia village club activities.
• Assist residents with grocery shopping.
• Assist with meal planning and preparation while encouraging resident participation while promoting socialization, autonomy, and purpose
• Allow Resident to live as normal as a life as possible even though they have a dementia diagnosis.

Other Duties

• Report unusual incidents to neighborhood leader.
• Complete mandatory education requirements.
• Greet internal and external customers in a timely and friendly manner.
• Participate in monthly drills

**You Bring (Qualifications)**

• High school diploma or GED or equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Enrolled in an accredited health program
• Minimum 2.5 GPA and good academic standing
• Proof of enrollment, class schedule & transcripts
• Previous caregiving, homemaking or personal care work preferred but not required
• Must be at least 18 years of age
• Must be willing to adhere to DHS83 regulations and training requirements

**Benefits**

• Free Housing – private room and bath, utilities, internet, parking and laundry!
• $100/week food stipend
• Hands on training
• Flexible shifts scheduled around your classes

**About Agrace**

For more than 45 years, Agrace has been an innovator and leader in both caring for patients and their families, and in educating others about death, dying and grief. We are the largest hospice provider in Wisconsin. Well known for end-of-life care, Agrace also serves people across southern Wisconsin who are aging, seriously ill or grieving.

**At Agrace we are strengthened by the unique experiences, cultures and traditions of our staff, patients and clients.**

**Together, we pursue a vision in which *every*Agrace staff member is treated fairly, and every patient and client experiences the respectful, individualized care they need and deserve.**

**We foster a culture of belonging that celebrates people’s uniqueness and leads to meaningful, empathetic connections.**

Agrace Health Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.