ECH Versatile Worker/CNA - 2nd shift
Full Time
Louisville, KY 40222
Posted
Job description
CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT
Are you a Certified Nursing Assistant looking to expand your career? Looking to join a team that is energized by helping others? Do you desire joining an organization that values their most valuable asset?
Our Team Members at Episcopal Retirement Services has been voted one of the Top Places to work 13 years running!
We are currently seeking an Energized, Certified Nursing Assistant – 2nd Shift to join our team!
- The position, Certified Nursing Assistant, in Episcopal Church Home is titled as Versatile Worker.
As a Versatile Worker you will enjoy all of the great benefits below and more!
- A professional and collaborative working environment
- Robust benefits package: Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO, HAS
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Refer and get paid every time a friend is hired and becomes a Team Member
- Making an impact to the area's aging adults and much more!
Want to learn more about our award winning culture? Watch the brief video below
https://youtu.be/bXk2AENVmo0
Position Purpose:
Consistently working with all household team members and led by resident and family preference, the primary purpose of the Certified Nursing Assistant is to provide both caregiving and homemaking services to meet the needs and desires of all household residents, providing for the daily personal, physical, environmental, psycho-social and spiritual needs, activities of daily living and comfort of our residents in accordance with our established policies, procedures and standards. Versatile Workers provide resident care, housekeeping, life enrichment, and dining support and assistance to our residents. Supports all aspects of the household environment, including pets, plants, children, visitors, and guests, facilitating all planned and spontaneous needs and activities.
Essential Functions/Accountabilities:
- Attends to all resident personal care needs, including but not limited to, grooming, hygiene, dining and nutritional, mobility, toileting, psychosocial and safety needs. Organizes all supplies necessary to complete the tasks. Supports residents in self-care and provides care as necessary for those unable to care for their own needs.
- Regularly checks and provides appropriate care and stimulation to residents needing specialized attention, including observation of the skin and provision of care related to the prevention of skin breakdown. Immediately reports any changes to the household nurse.
- Responds to residents’ requests, including call lights/pendants, silent alarms, in a timely manner.
- Plans, develops, implements and evaluates the activity/recreation programs of the household.
- Coordinates services with other household members.
- Communicates with staff and persons served by reading and responding promptly to e-mail, text and phone messages on a daily basis.
- Organizes and implements individualized and group programs and encourages residents to pursue their interests by providing materials as needed and in keeping with the household budget.
- With transportation provided, accompany and assists residents to the activities outside the household and to assist residents to activities inside the household. Maintains and grows resident functional abilities at/to optimum level by using the restorative devices and programs as ordered and as directed by the Director of Nursing.
- Assists resident in carrying out their restorative program(s), which may include but is not limited to, ambulation, transfers, bed mobility, ADL’s, ROM, splints, dining restorative program, and bowel and bladder restorative program. Maintains the resident’s dignity while providing services and communicates immediately to the household nurse a resident’s complaint of pain during their restorative program.
- Reads, understands, implements and evaluates the resident’s Restorative Plan of Care. Records delivery of restorative services in the RNA Practice module of the electronic medical record.
- Provides information regarding planned community and household opportunities, such as special dinners, holiday events, trips, etc., to residents, household staff, families and household extended families as appropriate.
- Using our computerized medical records systems, updates resident-related information regarding activities and daily care and completes other administrative responsibilities in a timely and accurate manner.
Minimum Qualifications:
- State of Kentucky registered nurse’s aide is required. (ERS may be willing to provide training)
- Valid driver’s license and must carry valid auto insurance.
- Ability, with or without reasonable accommodation, to lift, push, pull of move 50 lbs. on a regular basis and 100 lbs. occasionally.
- Ability to relate to and work effectively with the ill, disabled, elderly, emotionally upset and, at times, hostile people within the household and to remain calm in emotionally charged situations.
- Ability to read, write and communicate effectively in the English language.
- Ability to see and hear, with or without reasonable accommodation, so that the essential functions of this position may be fully met.
- Ability to sit, stoop, bend, and move continuously throughout the day.
- Ability to maintain an attendance record which falls within the guidelines of the company’s and household’s attendance policy.
- Possess leadership ability and be willing to work harmoniously with other personnel as well as be willing to communicate with residents based at whatever behavior or acuity level they are currently functioning.
- Knowledge and competencies for age specific interventions.
- Fully vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccination.
ERS is committed to providing equal opportunity for employment and advancement to all team members and potential team members. There will be no discrimination in employment practices because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability (except where reasonable accommodation would not enable the disabled person to adequately perform the essential functions of the position) , military status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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