Caregiver Careers

Join the East Lyme Caregivers Team

Make a difference for adults and seniors in East Lyme, New London County, and surrounding Connecticut communities.

Explore caregiver opportunities, scheduling options, and our hiring process below. Complete the employment application directly on this website.

Questions? Call (959) 213-7930 or email [email protected].

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Why Work With East Lyme Caregivers

Meaningful work with support, flexibility, and respect.

Flexible scheduling

Share your availability for full-time, part-time, or per diem opportunities. Assignments depend on client needs and available openings.

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Tell us the days and hours you can work, your preferred weekly hours, and whether you are interested in full-time, part-time, per diem, or temporary work.

Include any scheduling restrictions and whether you can accept short shifts, overnights, weekends, holidays, or live-in assignments. Availability is matched to client needs and current openings.

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Pay based on the assignment

Pay is discussed for each role based on experience and the assignment.

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Share your relevant caregiving experience, current credentials, and the type of assignment you want.

Ask about the rate and assignment expectations during screening. Pay is discussed for the specific role and assignment.

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Supportive leadership

Responsive communication and guidance from the agency team.

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Use the phone screening and interview to ask questions about the role, expectations, communication, and onboarding.

Contact the agency team at (959) 213-7930 or [email protected] if you need help with your application.

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Consistent client assignments

Build familiar routines with clients when ongoing assignments are available.

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Tell us the locations and hours you can reliably cover, plus your maximum travel distance between client homes.

Consistent assignments depend on client needs, available openings, and a suitable match between the client and caregiver.

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One-on-one care

Make a difference through personal attention, companionship, and dependable support.

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Companionship, everyday conversation, daily routines, and dependable attention can make a meaningful difference at home.

Share examples of how you build trust, respect personal preferences, and help clients feel comfortable.

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Respect and growth

Work in a professional environment with opportunities to grow as the agency expands.

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Describe your strengths, qualifications, and the areas of caregiving you would like to develop.

Ask about current opportunities and role expectations during your interview. Growth opportunities depend on the agency’s needs and expansion.

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Caregiver Opportunities

All roles provide non-medical home care. Ask about current openings.

Caregiver / Companion

Offer companionship, safety monitoring, and support with daily routines.

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Typical support may include companionship, safety monitoring, meal preparation, light housekeeping, errands, and appointment escort, as assigned.

List your relevant experience and availability. Duties are determined by the client’s needs and the assignment.

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Personal Care Assistant (PCA)

Assist with personal-care tasks appropriate to your training and the client’s care plan.

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Tell us about your experience with bathing, grooming, toileting, feeding assistance, and safe mobility or transfers.

Personal-care duties must be appropriate to your training, qualifications, the care plan, and the assignment.

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Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)

Bring your CNA training and caregiving experience to non-medical home-care assignments.

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Include your CNA issuing organization, credential number, expiration date, and current status in your application.

Describe your experience supporting older adults and your familiarity with care notes, transfers, safety monitoring, and written care plans. These opportunities provide non-medical home care.

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Home Health Aide (HHA)

Support clients at home with personal care and daily activities within the assignment.

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Describe your HHA training, credentials, and experience with personal care and daily activities in private homes.

Share any CPR, First Aid, dementia training, or other relevant qualifications. Assignment duties depend on training and the client’s needs.

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PRN / On-Call Caregiver

Share your availability for coverage and assignments as needs arise.

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Indicate whether you can accept last-minute assignments and which days, hours, and locations you can cover.

PRN and on-call opportunities are based on coverage needs and available assignments. Share any restrictions so we can discuss suitable openings.

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Live-In Assignments

Ask about available live-in opportunities, expectations, and scheduling.

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If interested, include live-in assignments among your scheduling preferences.

Ask the agency about current openings, the proposed schedule, client needs, and assignment expectations before accepting an opportunity.

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What to Include in Your Application

Help us understand your experience, interests, and availability.

Your caregiving experience

Tell us about your skills, training, work history, and experience supporting older adults or people living with dementia.

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Include your three most recent employers, job titles, dates, supervisor contact details, and reasons for leaving.

List skills such as companionship, meal preparation, personal care, dementia support, fall prevention, safe transfers, and documentation when they reflect your experience.

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Your availability

Include preferred days and hours, mornings, evenings, overnights, Saturdays, and Sundays.

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Enter a start and end time for each day, Monday through Sunday. Write Not available for days you cannot work.

Include minimum and maximum weekly hours, preferred shift types, travel distance, and whether last-minute coverage is possible.

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Your qualifications

We look for compassion, patience, reliability, communication skills, and dependable transportation. CNA or HHA certification is preferred.

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Complete your training, education, transportation, and professional reference information. Provide three references who are not relatives.

Answer the essential-functions question and request a discussion about reasonable accommodation if needed. You do not need to provide medical diagnoses.

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Our Hiring Process

Five clear steps from your application to onboarding.

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Step 1 — Submit Your Application

Complete the employment application directly below. Share your experience, qualifications, and availability.

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Complete the online form below, including your contact information, availability, qualifications, work history, and references.

Read the applicant acknowledgments, enter your printed name and typed signature, and select Submit at the end of the form.

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Step 2 — Initial Phone Screening

We discuss your experience, interests, availability, and suitable opportunities.

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We discuss your caregiving experience, interests, scheduling preferences, and suitable opportunities.

Be ready to explain when you can start, your reliable availability, travel limits, current credentials, and the roles you want to pursue.

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Step 3 — Interview — Virtual or In Person

Meet with us to discuss the role, care expectations, and your questions.

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Meet with us virtually or in person to discuss the role, care expectations, and your questions.

Prepare examples of your caregiving experience, communication, reliability, and approach to client dignity and safety.

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Step 4 — Background and Reference Checks

We review the required checks, references, and credentials before an offer or placement.

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We review the required references, credentials, and job-related checks before an offer or placement.

Provide accurate contact details and credential information. Any consumer report or background check is handled through separate notices and authorization documents as required by law.

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Step 5 — Onboarding and Orientation

Selected applicants learn our policies, care expectations, and assignment procedures.

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Selected applicants learn the agency’s policies, care expectations, and assignment procedures.

Ask questions about the care plan, communication, documentation, scheduling, and the responsibilities of your assignment.

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Apply Directly on This Website

Complete the employment application below and select Submit. No download or separate email is needed. Use N/A for questions that do not apply. Enter a start and end time for each available day, or write Not available.

Caregiving skills guide

List your relevant skills: companionship; meal preparation; light housekeeping; laundry/linens; medication reminders; appointment escort; shopping/errands; dementia/Alzheimer’s care; hospice support; fall prevention; transfers/gait belt; Hoyer lift; bathing/grooming; toileting/incontinence care; feeding assistance; range-of-motion support; vital signs; care notes/documentation; client safety monitoring; pet-friendly homes.

Assignments are for non-medical home care. Duties depend on training, qualifications, care plans, and the assignment.

Essential functions and equal opportunity

Caregiving assignments may require standing, walking, bending, reaching, assisting with transfers, and safely performing personal-care or household tasks. Answer whether you can perform the essential functions with or without reasonable accommodation. You may request to discuss an accommodation without providing medical details.

East Lyme Caregivers provides equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants and employees in accordance with applicable law. Employment decisions are based on legitimate job-related qualifications and business needs. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified applicants and employees with disabilities and for sincerely held religious practices, as required by law.

Driving records, license, registration, and insurance may be verified when driving is an essential function of the assignment. Proof of work authorization will be required after hire.

Read applicant acknowledgments before submitting
  1. I certify that the information in this application and any attachments is true, complete, and accurate to the best of my knowledge.
  2. I understand that false statements, omissions, or misrepresentations may disqualify me from employment or result in termination if discovered after hire.
  3. I authorize East Lyme Caregivers to contact the employers, schools, credentialing bodies, and professional references listed in this application to verify job-related information.
  4. I understand that any offer may be contingent on satisfactory verification of identity and work authorization, references, credentials, and other lawful pre-employment requirements.
  5. I understand that a consumer report or background check, if required, will be handled through separate notices and authorization documents as required by law.
  6. I understand that employment is not guaranteed for any specific duration. If hired, employment will be at will to the extent permitted by law, meaning either I or the employer may end employment at any time, with or without notice or cause.
  7. I understand that this application is not a contract or promise of employment.

Use the acknowledgment checkboxes near the end of the form and enter your printed name, typed signature, and application date. For help or an alternative way to apply, contact us.

Questions? (959) 213-7930 · [email protected]

Caregiver Employment Application

 

Complete your application directly below and press Submit at the end. Enter your full legal name in Name. Answer each applicable question, using N/A where needed. For grouped questions, separate your answers with semicolons. In Message, explain why you want to work as a caregiver and what makes you a strong candidate, and include any additional details that do not fit above. Please do not include Social Security numbers, medical diagnoses, banking details, or copies of identification. Questions? Call (959) 213-7930 or email [email protected].

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