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About the Role
The resident care assistant will provide personal care services, assistance, support, and supervision to residents. This role also involves providing housekeeping services, assisting with activities, and supporting food service.
Responsibilities
- Assist residents with daily grooming, bathing, and dressing.
- Assist in the development and updating of each resident’s care plan.
- Provide ADL assistance to residents via Optimus system.
- Straighten residents’ apartment daily and make bed.
- Respond to all PERS alerts via the company pager in a timely manner.
- Ensure pagers remain on site and are turned over to a responsible person on each shift.
- Strip and remake residents’ bed weekly.
- Perform personal laundry for residents weekly or as required.
- Assist residents with picking up trash and disposing of expired food in their apartment.
- Monitor changes in residents’ appetite.
- Serve residents’ meals from the kitchen as needed.
- Assist in the dining room during meals as needed.
- Assist with the activity program and conduct activities as directed.
- Assure residents get to appointments, activities, and meals.
- Provide one-on-one support/visitation to assigned residents as needed.
- Encourage and/or remind residents to participate in activities.
- Encourage socialization among residents.
- Communicate all pertinent information to other staff in a timely manner.
- Comply with facility in-service requirements.
- Maintain confidentiality of all information related to the organization, residents, participants, family, and staff.
Requirements
- Must possess high school diploma or equivalent with reading, comprehension, and writing ability at 12th grade level or higher.
- Experience or interest in working with older adults.
- Strong team approach to working with other staff.
- Ability to interact courteously and tactfully with staff, residents, family members, visitors, vendors, and the general public.
- Lifting, bending, walking, and standing are required.
- Must be able to occasionally lift loads of 50 pounds without assistance.
- Ability to sit, talk, and hear is required.
- Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
- Employee may be exposed to indoor temperature fluctuations.
- The work is performed within established guidelines and requires periodic supervision.
- Employee exercises some initiative and independent judgment.
- Shall be fully acquainted with all safety policies and procedures of all Assisted Living locations.
- Takes an active role in all fire drills during the shift and/or emergencies for internal and external disasters.
Skills
- Basic First Aid
Location
- Onsite
Work Type
- Full-Time
Experience Level
- Entry Level
Education Level
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Certification as a Home Health Aide (HHA) or Personal Care Aide (PCA)
Salary/Compensations
- $18.25 - $20.25 Hourly
- Generous shift differential offered for evenings, nights, and weekends.
About the Company
- We provide high quality services from skilled nursing and restorative care to housing, assisted living and community-based wellness programs.
- We are committed to meeting each individual’s needs, in a culturally competent manner, supporting family and loved ones through transitions, and fulfilling our pledge… Life. Inspired Every Day.
Equal Opportunity
- Episcopal SeniorLife Communities is an Equal Opportunity Employer.