Caregiver

Reports to: Health & Wellness Director

Full Wage Range: $17.13-$23.50

Full job description:

1. Provides direct resident care while promoting resident dignity, independence, and personal choice. Regularly observes residents’ physical and mental conditions and reports changes to Health Services Director or Executive Director.  

2. Provides care and services as directed by the resident’s cooperative service plan.  

3. Coordinates personal care services with co-workers assisting with lifting and responds to assistance pages promptly.  

4. Reports and documents all incidents and accidents per policy. Completes are required notifications and incident report forms.  

5. Assists residents to and from dining room and activities.  

6. Performs First Aid and initiates emergency response procedures as required. 7. Greets residents, visitors, and staff courteously and answers phones when assigned.  

8. Follows and supports community fire safety and infection control practices and promptly reports any unsafe conditions or equipment to immediate supervisor or Executive Director.  

9. Serves meals in the dining room, assists residents at mealtimes, provides resident tray delivery, and assists with dining room and kitchen clean up and maintenance.  

10. Assists in lifting, moving, and transporting residents using proper body mechanics or assistive devices as directed by the resident’s cooperative service plan.

11. Assists with tours, move-ins, move-outs, and transfers.  

12. Assists with apartment housekeeping services and resident’s laundry.

13. Attends and participates in training, in-services, and staff meetings.

14. Partners with health services leadership to provide mentorship and training to Personal Care Attendants as needed.             

15. Assists with staffing and scheduling of Personal Care Attendants as directed.  

16. Performs other duties as assigned.  

COMPANY WIDE RESPONSIBILITIES  

1. Demonstrates Company Values.

2. Supports a dignified and caring atmosphere with residents, residents’ families, visitors, and staff.  

3. Protects privacy and confidentiality of information pertaining to residents, team members, the department/center/community, and company information and records.        

4. Maintains a safe and secure working environment and practices safe working habits. 

Supervisory Requirements

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Qualification Education and/or Experience

Must possess, as a minimum, a high school education or its equivalent.

Language Skills

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers and employees.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

Must be in compliance with any required licensing and any necessary examination(s) in accordance with state and federal laws.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Prolonged use of a desktop or laptop computer. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk and talk, read or hear. Frequent use of all office-related equipment to include; copier/scanner/fax, telephone, and calculator.  May be necessary to assist in the evacuation of residents during emergency situations.        

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.

Additional Information Note:

Nothing in this job specification restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. Critical features of this job are described under various headings above. They may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons. The above statements are strictly intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as a complete list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of employees in this position. 

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected status.