Care Partner

Bethesda Group · Carrollton, TX Full Time
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Job Description

Description Care Partner - Full Time Looking for a few Care partners to join our team. Provide care and assistance to residents in a compassionate, quality customer service environment that preserves dignity. Assist and coordinate residents with various activities, including them in daily tasks and recreational opportunities, providing guidance, ensuring resident's safety, and promoting an engaging and fulfilling experience for all individuals under your care. Essential Functions Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Takes vital signs, and weighs residents. Documents/charts on residents’ changes and unusual occurrences. Schedules doctor appointments as needed. Admits new residents per community policy. Assists residents with showers, grooming, dressing, and toileting as needed. Assists residents with activities of daily living as described on individual care plans. Assists with basic cleaning and maintenance issues when needed. Cleans up after incidents in a timely, efficient manner while maintaining the dignity of the resident. Assists residents who have fallen providing safety, security, and compassion. Escorts residents to and from the dining room as needed. Picks up laundry from resident’s apartment as needed and transport to laundry room. Sorts, washes, dries, folds, and hangs laundry according to community procedure. Returns clean laundry to resident apartment. Assists in serving meals and beverages and taking meal orders as needed. Answers call lights with patience and compassion following company guidelines. Listens to residents with empathy and assurance. Follows up with appropriate personnel regarding resident concerns. Makes rounds on resident to ensure their safety and provide assistance as needed. Calls Health Services Director, doctors, and families to inform of any change in condition, incidents, medications, etc. as needed. Attends meetings/in-services/training sessions as required by Health Services Director and/or Executive Director. Maintains confidentiality of residents’ personal information in and out of the community and protects and supports residents’ rights. Communicates with residents, families, visitors, and employees in a positive manner using excellent communication skills. Provides tours to potential residents and families that show how the resident’s individual needs can be met and promotes the concept of care in the community. Maintains a professional appearance and demeanor that encourages a positive, nurturing environment for the residents, families, vendors, and guests. Ensures excellent customer service by maintaining open and honest communication, answering phone promptly and professionally, and ensuring residents, families, and other employee’s needs are met Ensures adequate daily coverage for meal service by communicating with the Culinary Services Director and/or Host/Hostess, to include taking resident orders for meals, providing drink refills according to residents’ / guests’ requests, assists with the cleaning, resetting and preparation of the dining room in-between meal times

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What Most Job Listings Don’t Tell You

General overview for this role type — specific duties and requirements vary by employer.

Support roles in senior living — housekeeping, maintenance, activities, and social work — are far more resident-facing than similar positions in other industries. Housekeepers and maintenance staff interact with residents in their personal living spaces daily, which requires discretion, patience, and genuine respect for the people who live there. In Texas, even non-clinical staff must complete facility-specific training on topics like abuse prevention, infection control, and emergency procedures.

Activities coordinators and social workers play a direct role in resident well-being — isolation and depression are significant concerns in senior living, and programming that keeps residents socially engaged has measurable health outcomes. Maintenance staff in senior care need to understand life-safety systems (fire alarms, emergency generators, call systems) and are often the first responders for building emergencies. Background checks are required for all positions, and many facilities prefer candidates who have previous experience working with older adults.

What to Expect in This Role Day-to-Day

Based on typical senior living facilities in the DFW area.

For housekeeping roles, the day follows a room-by-room schedule — cleaning resident rooms, sanitizing common areas, managing laundry, and responding to spill or accident cleanups as they happen. Infection control protocols are more rigorous than in hotels or commercial cleaning, especially during flu season or respiratory illness outbreaks.

Maintenance staff handle a daily work order queue — everything from changing light bulbs and fixing call buttons to HVAC maintenance and plumbing repairs. Life-safety equipment checks (fire extinguishers, exit lighting, generator testing) happen on set schedules. Activities professionals plan and lead group programming — exercise classes, crafts, music sessions, outings — and also provide one-on-one engagement for residents who cannot participate in group settings. Social workers manage care conferences, discharge planning, family mediation, and community resource referrals. Across all these roles, the common thread is that you become a familiar, trusted presence in residents' daily lives.

DFW Area Salary Data

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Home Health and Personal Care Aide positions in the DFW metroplex area earn a median wage of $12.93/hr ($26,894/yr). The typical range is $11.12 – $14.51/hr (25th–75th percentile).

Entry Level (10th) $22,381/yr
DFW Median $26,894/yr
Experienced (90th) $36,005/yr
vs. National Median -24.9%

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics (Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area). Salary data provided by DFW Senior Living Guide.

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