Your career begins when you find your life’s passion. While a paycheck may be enough of a reward for performing a job, your life’s work deserves more. Fulfillment. A sense of purpose. The knowledge that you are making the world just a little bit better.
Working in long term care gives you a pathway to a meaningful career. Establish long-term relationships and enrich your own life, as well as others, as you work in an environment with compassionate, like-minded people who share your desire to make a difference.
Direct caregivers, primarily nurses, nurse assistants, therapists, and others, are in high demand. Other professionals are also necessary to ensure the best care is provided, including those in administration, social services, dietary and nutrition, financial services, activities planning and various other support services. These roles all have the potential to be deeply rewarding, because they all impact patient care in some way.
With Florida’s aging population continuing to grow, there are many opportunities in long term care, whether you’re looking for an entry-level position or a path to professional advancement.
Opportunities are available in skilled nursing, which are licensed healthcare centers that offer round-the-clock nursing care, to short stay rehabilitation centers, which provide therapy for individuals recovering from a surgery, illness or accident. Assisted living facilities combine housing, support services and health care, as needed, while memory care centers are geared toward individuals with Alzheimer’s, dementia and other types of memory problems.
CaregiversFL Careers is an initiative of the Florida Health Care Association, which represents Florida’s long term care providers and the residents entrusted to their care. FHCA supports its members in their efforts to recruit, train and retain a skilled workforce to help meet the needs of Florida’s aging population, today and into the future.
Florida Health Care Association
307 W. Park Ave.
P. O. Box 1459
Tallahassee, Florida 32301
(850) 224-3907
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