Personal Care Assistant

Job Id:  606 # of Openings:  1

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• Promote principles of resident directed care including honoring residents’ desires, strengths, and preferences. Promote residents’ highest level of function.
• Transfers residents, in wheelchairs, from room to common area, dining area, activities, or church.
• Once certified, administers medications as ordered, including insulin, injections, topical, enteral, oral, etc.
• Understands the importance and necessity of accurate documentation.
• Assemble, thin, and disassemble resident charts as necessary.
• Responds to inquiries from families, and other referral sources by providing information about the facility, including tours when the Villa Care Coordinator or Admissions Coordinator are unavailable.
• Provides care on the basis of infection control and blood borne pathogen best practices.
• Answer resident call signals.
• Turn and reposition residents alone or with assistance, to prevent bedsores.
• Collect specimens such as urine, feces, or sputum as needed.
• Observe resident conditions, measuring and recording intake and output and vitals as needed and ordered.  Report changes to professional staff, physician, and/or family.
• Provide residents with help walking, exercising, and moving in and out of bed.  Bathe, groom, shave, dress and complete. incontinent care as needed.  Assist residents with eating.
• Responsible for light housekeeping duties in the absence of a housekeeper to preserve the cleanliness of the carpets, floors, dining area, etc.
• Supports the Mission, Vision, and Values of Woodside Senior Communities.
• Is knowledgeable of resident rights and ensures an atmosphere which allows for the privacy, dignity, and well-being of all residents in a safe, secure environment.
• Observes care in ensuring the confidentiality of all data, including resident, employee, and operations data as required by HIPAA/HITECH regulations.
• Abides by all applicable statutes and regulations through compliance with the Woodside Corporate Compliance and Ethics Program.
• Completes requirements for in-service training.
• Completes other tasks and duties as assigned.

• Experience as a caregiver in a CBRF or other healthcare setting preferred, but other candidates will be considered as well ​
• Computer skills strongly preferred 
• Certified or willingness to obtain dementia care certification strongly preferred