Job Summary:
This position provides direct care and medication assistance to the residents in a manner that meets or exceeds Community expectations, including being familiar with and prepared to fulfill responsibilities as outlined in the following position descriptions:
Personal Care Assistant to Residents
Laundry/Housekeeper
Dishwasher/Kitchen Helper
Job Duties:
Essential Functions
Support the mission, vision, and culture of the organization through positive communication and leadership.
Contribute to Community relationships by demonstrating cooperation and professional conduct with residents, families, fellow associates, physicians, pharmacies and other vendors or persons.
Contribute to team effort by being flexible in work assignments; by furnishing support; by taking initiative; and by understanding how this position affects and. compliments all other Community positions.
Able to maintain work pace appropriate to given work load. Perform activities on schedule while maintaining regular attendance and punctuality within specified tolerance.
Provide assistance (or reminders) with activities of daily living, including grooming, oral hygiene, bath/shower, hair cleaning and brushing, and transferring to and from activities and meals, as needed.
Provide assistance with resident's personal environment (e.g. clothing, linen, and personal belongings).
Lift and/or transfer residents as needed.
Assist in meal preparation/presentation, serving to resident, and other dining related responsibilities;
record and report changes in resident's eating habits to the supervisor.
Make resident rounds every two hours as required in residents' service plans or as circumstances dictate.
Record and report changes in resident's condition to the supervisor including but not limited to changes in resident's ability to perform activities of daily living, skin changes, bruising, etc.
Use approved charting criteria and procedures to record pertinent information in resident charts.