Caregiver

**Caregiver**

Taunton, MA

***Open Your Heart, Open Your Home/Caregiving with Love***

Nonotuck Resources Associates (www.nonotuck.com) is a community-based agency that has been providing residential services since 1972 to people with intellectual disabilities and acquired brain injuries. We support people who need assistance to remain living in a home setting. The individual and caregiver share a home; the caregiver must have an extra bedroom.

The role of the Caregiver is to provide a comfortable and safe home, while helping the person to have a healthy and enriching life. We are looking for an individual in the Taunton, MA. area to assist with caring for a wonderful, young woman in her early 30's. She is legally blind, but has functional eyesight. She is mostly independent and loves animals.

Responsibilities will include, but not limited to: planning and sharing meals together each day, participating in community and social activities, providing transportation, and overseeing medical care and appointments.

Qualifications:

* You must have an *available bedroom* in your home Or, be looking to move into the home of the person we serve.

* Minimum age of 18 yrs old

* Clean criminal record

* Valid driver's license

* Access to reliable and insured vehicle

Experience working with people with disabilities and / or in other human service profession is helpful but not necessary. Comprehensive training and ongoing guidance are provided.

Nonotuck Resource Associates provides:

* Generous tax-exempt stipend

* Extensive ongoing training

* Monthly visits and consistent support by a Case Manager

* Clinical supports

* 24/7 on call assistance

Nonotuck is honored to be named a Top Place to Work by the Boston Globe, and this honor would not be possible without our Nonotuck families. Family is at the center of all we do. George Fleischner, Nonotuck president and CEO.

If interested, please respond to this ad, or visit our website for more information: