Fair Oaks Estates is a locally owned assisted living and memory care community on Fair Oaks Boulevard in Carmichael. We’ve served families across the Sacramento Valley for more than 20 years, and we’re a 63-bedroom community.

We provide assisted living, memory care for residents with dementia. That means our caregivers get to know people over time, through real changes, rather than rotating through strangers. Understanding what each resident actually needs, and helping without taking away what they can still do themselves, is the whole job.

We’re locally owned, not a national chain. The people who make decisions here are on site, and our caregivers have a supervisor they can actually reach.

We’ll be straight with you about pay: we start at California minimum wage and move up from there. What we can promise is a schedule you can plan a real life around, paid orientation and training, and a team that won’t leave you alone on a hard morning.

THE ROLE

Fair Oaks Estates is hiring a full-time morning Caregiver in Carmichael.

Mornings set the tone for the whole day. You’ll be the first friendly face our residents see, helping them start the day feeling clean, fed, comfortable, and treated like the adult they are.

This is the busiest shift we run. Showers, dressing, and breakfast all land in the same few hours, and appointments start stacking up mid-morning. If you like being genuinely useful and you’d rather the time fly by than crawl, this is your shift.

To be clear about scope: medications at Fair Oaks Estates are handled by our Med Techs, not by caregivers. Your job is direct resident care.

THE SCHEDULE: WHAT "4 ON, 2 OFF" ACTUALLY MEANS

If you haven’t worked this kind of rotation before, here’s how it works:

You work four days in a row. Then you get two days off. Then the pattern starts over. Four on, two off, continuously.

Because the cycle is six days long and a week is seven, your days off move through the calendar rather than landing on the same days every week. One cycle your days off might be Tuesday and Wednesday; the next they might be Monday and Tuesday; eventually they land on a weekend. Everyone on this rotation gets weekends off regularly. They just come around on a cycle instead of every week.

What this means for you in practice:

• You get a two-day break every six days, instead of working five straight and waiting for Saturday.
• You work about 20 days a month rather than the usual 22, for full-time hours.
• Your schedule lives in an app, not on a break room wall. You can see your rotation weeks ahead, pick up open shifts when you want extra hours, swap shifts directly with a coworker, and request time off from your phone.
• You will work some weekends and some holidays. We’re telling you that up front rather than letting you discover it later.
• Mornings mean early alarms. Your shift starts at 6:00 AM, so plan on being up before the sun for part of the year.

Shift hours: 6:00 AM to 2:30 PM.

Full-time, scheduled on a six-week rotation.

PAY

Starting pay: $16.90 per hour (California minimum wage)

Top of range: $17.90 per hour

Overtime: paid at time-and-a-half, per California law

Raises are based on performance, experience, and attendance, not on time served.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Wake and greet residents gently, at their own pace
• Assist with morning personal care: showers and bathing, dressing, grooming, daily shaving, oral and denture care, and incontinence care
• Answer call lights within minutes
• Provide safe transfers and walking support, including gait belt, Hoyer lift, and two-person assists
• Tray service for breakfast and mid-morning snacks; assist residents to and from meals and with feeding as needed
• Support memory care residents through morning routines with patience and gentle redirection
• Alert the Med Tech or Care Managers promptly if a resident seems unwell, is in pain, or is refusing care
• Report any change in a resident’s condition immediately: weight, mood, falls, skin tears, bruises, or not eating
• Help residents get ready for and get to appointments, therapy, and activities
• Assist the activity director, remind residents of what’s coming up, and help them take part
• Lead or support morning activities such as walks in the garden, exercises, reading, and conversation
• Change and launder bed linens; handle laundry, housekeeping, and sanitation
• Document in Eldermark before the end of your shift
• Give a clear, complete handoff to the afternoon shift so nothing falls through the cracks
• Respond calmly to falls, confusion, and behavioral changes, escalating per protocol

WHAT WE OFFER

• A rotation you can build a life around. Four on, two off, visible weeks ahead in the scheduling app.
• Scheduling you control from your phone. Our app shows your rotation weeks out, lists open shifts you can pick up when you want extra hours, lets you swap shifts directly with a coworker, and handles time-off requests. No paper schedule taped to a wall, and no chasing down a manager to trade a day.
• Afternoons and evenings free. Off by 2:30 PM, so you can pick up kids, make appointments, take a class, or just have your own day.
• The same residents every shift. You’ll learn who takes their coffee black and who needs a minute before they’re ready to stand up.
• Paid initial training, delivered onsite and through accredited online training providers. It covers ADLs, building and fire safety, emergency response, postural supports, and restricted health conditions, plus dementia care and hands-on shadowing.
• Paid continuing education every year, onsite and online, including dementia care.
• Health coverage for regular full-time employees. You’re eligible the first of the month after your 90-day anniversary.
• Paid sick leave for every employee, accrued at one hour for every 30 hours worked, and available to use after 90 days.
• Paid vacation for regular full-time employees after one year of continuous employment.

REQUIRED

• 18 years or older, authorized to work in the United States
• Fingerprint clearance through Community Care Licensing, completed before your first day
• A health screening and TB test from a licensed physician, completed before your first day
• A valid First Aid card which must be kept current. Cards renew every two years.
• Scrubs on the floor, plus low-heeled, closed-toe, slip-resistant shoes. You supply your own.
• Able to assist another caregiver in transferring residents weighing 100 to 250 pounds, daily, and to stay on your feet through a full shift
• Comfortable providing hands-on personal care, including bathing and toileting assistance
• Reliable transportation to Carmichael for a 6:00 AM start
• Available to work a morning shift on a four-days-on, two-days-off rotation, which includes some weekends and holidays

PREFERRED, NOT REQUIRED

• Previous caregiving experience, whether professional or caring for your own family
• High school diploma or GED
• Experience with dementia or Alzheimer’s care
• Comfortable with electronic documentation

WHO DOES WELL HERE

Morning people, first of all. This shift is no place to be dragging. Beyond that: people who show up when they said they would, who can move briskly through a busy morning without ever making someone feel rushed, and who understand that how you help someone shower is the difference between them keeping their dignity and losing it.

If you’ve been the person your family turned to when someone needed care, you already have the part of this job we can’t teach.

Fair Oaks Estates

8845 Fair Oaks Boulevard, Carmichael, CA 95608

Reports to: Resident Care Director and Resident Care Coordinators

SCHEDULE SUMMARY

Morning shift, 6:00 AM to 2:30 PM. Four days on, two days off, rotating. You work four consecutive days, then have two consecutive days off, and the cycle repeats. Days off rotate through the week, so weekends off come around regularly rather than falling on the same days each week. Schedules are managed in our scheduling app, where you can view your rotation weeks ahead, pick up open shifts, swap with coworkers, and submit time-off requests.

We also hire for PM (2 PM to 10:30 PM) and NOC (10 PM to 6:30 AM) shifts. If mornings don’t fit your life, ask us about the others.

GOOD TO KNOW BEFORE YOU APPLY

• Scrubs are required on the floor, along with low-heeled, closed-toe, slip-resistant shoes. You supply your own.
• No cell phones on the floor at any time. Personal calls happen on your break.
• There is a mandatory staff meeting once a month.
• We do not handle resident money, ever. That protects you as much as it protects them.
• We provide and pay for the training this job requires, onsite and through accredited online providers. We do not sponsor or pay for outside professional licenses such as CNA or LVN.

HOW TO APPLY

Apply online through this posting. Upload your resume, and a cover letter if you have one. If you don’t, apply anyway. We care more about who you are than how the paperwork looks.

Questions before you apply? Call us at (916) 944-2077.

We read every resume and cover letter daily, and we respond within 48 to 60 hours. You will not be left wondering.

What happens next:

1. You apply here, and we review your resume and cover letter.
2. If we’d like to move forward, we send you an email invitation to complete a short online questionnaire, about 10 minutes, along with a few remaining application items.
3. Selected applicants are invited to an in-person interview here at the community, so you can see where you’d be working and meet the people you’d be working with.
4. Fingerprint clearance, health screening, and TB test. California Community Care Licensing requires all three before your first day. These are completed at your own expense, and we’ll walk you through exactly where to go.
5. Paid orientation, and your first shift.

Fair Oaks Estates is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome applicants of every race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, and veteran status. If you need an accommodation during the application process, call us at (916) 944-2077.