PLEASE READ BEFORE APPLYING: WHAT DO WE MEAN BY “LIVE-IN”?

This is a true live-in position with one private client—not an hourly shift, overnight shift, or occasional agency live-in assignment.

You will:

• Relocate and move into the client’s private home
• Have your own private bedroom in the home
• Sleep in the client’s home on your scheduled work nights
• Help the client on and off throughout each day, as needed
• Provide memory support, companionship, supervision, meal preparation, medication reminders, household assistance, and other daily support
• Help the client maintain a safe, active, and engaging daily routine
• Receive scheduled breaks to leave the home based on the agreed-upon schedule

To qualify, you must have completed at least two verifiable live-in caregiving or companion jobs where you lived in one client’s private home and had your own bedroom. At least one job must have lasted six months or longer, and the second must have lasted at least three months.

If you have not yet completed this type of live-in work, please do not apply for this position.

Instead, visit the Live-in Caregiver Association at LCA.care. You can learn about the challenges of live-in care, take live-in caregiver courses, and use its job board to find opportunities to gain experience. After successfully completing the required live-in jobs with other employers, we welcome you to apply for future client positions recruited by Grandma Joan—where the big money can be made!
 

ABOUT GRANDMA JOAN

Grandma Joan is a nationwide household-employer recruiting service specializing exclusively in full-time live-in caregivers and companions.

We do not recruit for hourly jobs or 12-hour shifts—ONLY LIVE-IN. Since 2010, families across the United States have contracted with Grandma Joan to find, screen, and recruit experienced caregivers and companions for long-term live-in positions in their private homes. Our clients are the live-ins’ employers.
 

THE POSITION: PRIVATE-HIRE LIVE-IN MEMORY CARE COMPANION

Care location: Portsmouth NH

Care recipient: Woman in her late eighties who lives with her husband who has no care needs. 

Memory and support needs:  Early-stage dementia. She cannot safely live alone but does not currently require hands-on assistance with activities of daily living. She needs supervision, reminders, companionship, and help maintaining her daily routine.

Mobility: Self-ambulates

Companionship and activities: Plan and participate in regular walks, outings, social activities, movies, museums, community programs, hobbies, and other activities based on the client’s interests and abilities. 

Household and non-care needs: Meal planning and preparation, medication reminders, hydration reminders, driving, errands, grocery shopping, light housekeeping, laundry, appointment coordination, and pet care. Must be cat friendly. 

Future care needs: This is currently a companion and memory-support position. The client’s needs may increase over time, and the position may eventually develop into a live-in caregiving role that includes hands-on assistance with activities of daily living.

Schedule: Full-time live-in. 7 nights and 6.5 days each week. Looking for candidates who are interested in a multi-year position. 
 

THE REQUIREMENTS

Applicants must:

• Have completed at least two verifiable live-in caregiving or companion jobs lasting three months or longer, including at least one job lasting six months or longer
• Provide strong recommendations from at least two previous home care clients, including at least one live-in client for whom you worked longer than six months
• Have at least five years of paid, verifiable caregiving, companion-care, or memory-care experience
• Have paid, verifiable experience supporting clients with dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, or other forms of memory loss
• Understand how to provide reminders, redirection, reassurance, supervision, and structure without unnecessarily taking away the client’s independence
• Be able to plan and maintain an active, engaging schedule based on the client’s interests, abilities, and changing needs
• Be willing to accompany the client on walks, outings, appointments, social activities, and community events
• Communicate clearly and professionally with the client, family members, healthcare professionals, and other members of the household
• Have a valid driver’s license and be willing to drive the client in the client’s vehicle
• Have health insurance or be willing to obtain your own health insurance policy if hired
• Be comfortable with both dogs and cats and be willing to assist with pet care
• Independently manage routine household and companion responsibilities, solve everyday problems, and recognize when a situation requires family or professional involvement
• Be observant and able to report meaningful changes in the client’s memory, behavior, mood, mobility, safety, or daily functioning
• Be based in the United States and legally authorized to work in the United States
• Pass the required background check and drug screening if selected by the family
• Be interested in a long-term, full-time live-in position with one private household
• Be willing and able to provide hands-on assistance with activities of daily living if the client’s needs increase in the future

Additional client-specific requirements:

• Be willing to travel to and work at all of their three homes (NH,CO,PA)
 

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

• Annual salary of $130k-$135k, depending on the final schedule and the selected candidate’s experience
• Direct employment by a private family as a W-2 household employee
• Rent-free, furnished private bedroom in the client’s home
• Private bathroom
 

WHAT TO EXPECT AFTER YOU APPLY

1. Submit an application and answer the qualification questions established for this client’s position.

2. Complete an eight-question telephone screening with Ashley, Grandma Joan’s AI Recruiter Assistant.

3. Provide at least two verifiable live-in care or companion references. Grandma Joan will verify your experience and references against the client’s stated requirements.

4. Grandma Joan may present qualified candidates to the family for consideration. The family decides which candidates it wishes to interview.

5. Candidates selected by the family will interview directly with the family by Zoom. This is your opportunity to learn more about the client’s needs, interests, responsibilities, household, schedule, and proposed employment terms.

6. The family—not Grandma Joan—makes all hiring decisions. If the family chooses to offer you the position, the family will provide a written employment offer describing the proposed compensation, schedule, duties, and other employment terms.

7. If you accept the family’s conditional employment offer, you must complete the required background check and drug screening. Final employment is contingent upon satisfactory results. The family and its payroll provider will coordinate payroll enrollment and employment onboarding. The anticipated move-in date is normally approximately two weeks after the family hires its selected candidate.  Many of our clients offer to pay for the live-in's travel expenses to relocate to the client's home. 
    

EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP

Grandma Joan has been retained by the family solely as an independent, third-party recruiter. Grandma Joan advertises the position, screens applicants against the family’s stated requirements, verifies candidate information and references, and introduces qualified candidates to the family.

Grandma Joan does not employ or co-employ caregivers or companions and does not make the family’s hiring decisions. The family decides whom to interview and hire and is solely responsible for determining compensation, schedule, duties, supervision, working conditions, continued employment, and termination.

The selected companion will be employed and paid directly by the family as a W-2 household employee through the family’s payroll service. Any employment offer will come from the family, and the companion and family will agree directly on all employment terms.
 

LEARN MORE

To learn more about Grandma Joan and what we do, Google “Grandma Joan live-in care consulting and recruiting” or visit https://grandmajoan.com/job-seekers/

If you meet all the requirements and are interested in this position, please apply below. Thank you!