Job Description
Job DescriptionCaregiver / Home Care Aide — Antioch Caregivers
SYNERGY HomeCare of Pleasant Hill · Independently Owned & Operated
$21–$23/hr, plus $2/hr more for perfect attendance
Here is the pay, plainly. You start between $21 and $23 an hour depending on your caregiving experience. If you work every shift you agreed to in a calendar month, we add $2 an hour on top — and we apply it to every hour you worked that month, not just the last one. A full-time caregiver with clean attendance lands at $23–$25 an hour.
If you live in Antioch, this is the short drive
Our clients are in Pittsburg and Bay Point, ten to fifteen minutes west on Highway 4 — not an hour each way to Walnut Creek or Oakland. We also have hours in Clayton and east Concord when you want them.
Weekday mornings, afternoons, weekend days, and overnights. Some clients want four hours twice a week; some want a steady weekday block. Tell us the schedule you can actually keep and we build around it. We group your shifts geographically so your day is not spent in the car.
What the work actually is
You go to one person's home and help them get through their day with dignity. In practice that means personal care — bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, oral hygiene — plus meals, light housekeeping, grocery runs, medication reminders, safe transfers and repositioning, and watching for changes worth reporting. A good share of it is simply conversation and company, which matters more than the task list suggests.
You document in the app on your phone, clock in and out there, and call the office when something is off. That is the whole system.
What you need
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Registered Home Care Aide (HCA) with the State of California — or willing to register. We walk you through it and pay for it.
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High school diploma or GED
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2-step TB test and CPR / First Aid — current, or we help you get them
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Driver's license and reliable transportation, preferred
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Clear a national criminal background check and be bondable
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References we can reach
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Physically able to stand, walk, kneel, and assist with repositioning
Experience as a CNA, HHA, personal care aide, companion, or in assisted living, memory care, or senior care transfers directly. No agency background required — several of our caregivers started here with none.
What you get beyond the hourly
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401(k) retirement plan, eligibility requirements apply
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Paid training, including dementia, Parkinson's, and hospice support
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We pay for your HCA Registry renewal and CPR recertification
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Referral bonuses when you bring us someone good
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A real path: Caregiver → Senior Caregiver → Lead / Mentor
Who you'd be working for
We are a locally owned SYNERGY HomeCare office in Pleasant Hill, not a national call center routing you through a queue. The owner answers the phone. You get a dedicated caregiver line with published hours, a check-in on day one and day seven, and a call from us when a client says something good about you — because that happens more than caregivers ever hear about.
Apply today. Applications take a few minutes, we interview on a rolling basis, and we have shifts open now.