Hiring Senior Caregivers for Home Care

Without a core staff to keep your senior care franchise business in operation, you’ve got nothing. If your staff, particularly those who are delivering the service directly to the client aren’t proficient at their jobs with consideration to training, skills and personality, you might as well wish your profits goodbye before you’ve ever come close to breaking even. Of course, even having a diligent hiring process won’t give you a 100% guarantee that every senior care provider will have a long and successful run with your franchise, but it will put your business on the right track!

The top things you need to evaluate when hiring a senior home caregiver to work with your franchise include the following:

1. Licensing, certifications – the required designations of your staff will depend upon the type of senior home care business you are intending on operating. If it’s a non-medical home care business, you might strictly need to ensure that your senior caregivers have first aid certification of training either before they’re hired, or recognize their capacity to learn if you’ll put them through the training once they join the company

2. Experience – not all home caregivers need to have specific experience, although some exposure to older adults is a must. Depending on the level of involvement the caregivers you hire will have with the company will help to determine  the experience they need; but there is no hard and fast rule, it will be up to your discretion to determine the type of background you’d like each of your caregivers to have

3. Compatibility – the person you hire will need to get along well both with your senior clients and the other staff members involved with your franchise. You can look at personality to evaluate these aspects, but only on the job experience will help you ensure you made the right decision with each hire. Ensure that in any employment contract there is a trial period; you will need to pay them an agreed upon salary according to the contract, but can terminate their employment without fault if their employment doesn’t work out

Sources:

1.  EHow

2. National Senior Living Providers Network

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