Why You Should Work as a Professional Caregiver

If you’re a compassionate, hard-working, and empathetic individual who enjoys helping others, you may want to consider caregiving as your next career choice. There are tons of reasons people enjoy working as a professional caregiver. It’s a job with rewarding work where you’re building meaningful relationships with clients. It’s also a career where you learn valuable skills to apply to other jobs or personal life. Plus, professional caregiving offers flexibility to have a much-desired work-life balance. 

Rewarding work

Professional caregiving with Visiting Angels is about assisting seniors with nonmedical tasks to help them live safely and comfortably at home. Daily assistance may include meal preparations, light housekeeping, personal grooming, medication reminders, or transportation. At first glance, these tasks may not seem like a big deal, but everything you help clients with allows them to age in place and remain independent. 

Not only are you helping clients live independently, but you’re also relieving stress from family caregivers by taking over responsibilities that would otherwise fall on them. According to the AARP, about one in five Americans care for another adult, usually aging parents or loved ones. In addition to providing care, these family caregivers also manage their careers and personal lives, which can quickly feel overwhelming. As a caregiver, you’re helping these family caregivers regain normalcy in their lives and easing some of the stress they may feel so they don’t experience burnout. 

Learn transferable skills

A transferable skill is something that you learn for one job, but you can use it to help you in other situations. Caregiving teaches you many transferable skills like communication, problem-solving, and empathy. Not only are these skills helpful as a caregiver, but knowing how to effectively communicate, think on your feet, solve problems as they arise, and understand where others are coming from are applicable in all career paths and personal lives. 

Build meaningful relationships 

The heart of caregiving is about building meaningful relationships with clients. When there’s a bond between the client and caregiver, you can build trust and have a more enjoyable and practical experience together. 

At Visiting Angels, you won’t be working with different clients every shift. Instead, we take the time to pair each client and caregiver based on personality and interests to ensure there’s a base for a meaningful relationship. And once you build that relationship, you’ll find working as a caregiver much more fun. Suddenly, work will feel like hanging with a close friend, not just a client. 

Enjoy a flexible schedule 

Professional caregiving is not a typical nine-to-five job. While it’s possible to find clients requesting care during traditional work hours, caregiving provides much flexibility in scheduling whether you’re looking for full-time or part-time work. 

We understand that work is not everyone’s top priority and that many don’t want their careers to take away time with family and friends. We consider our caregiver’s schedules when matching them with clients at Visiting Angels. If someone needs to be home in the mornings to see their children off to school, we can arrange for them to have afternoon or night clients. If a caregiver needs free nights to attend classes, we can find clients whose care needs fit within their availability. 

Start a career with Visiting Angels 

If professional caregiving sounds like a promising career fit for you, we’d love to connect at Visiting Angels. Our Grand Junction office seeks empathetic and dependable individuals with a strong work ethic to join our growing team. All Visiting Angels caregivers can enjoy competitive pay, flexible hours, bonus opportunities, paid training, reimbursable mileage, one-on-one client interactions, and more. 

Please send us your application or call 970-254-8888 with any questions. We look forward to hearing from you!