Caregiver Job Description
Our Resident Assistants play an important role in the daily life of our residents who call Bourne Manor their home. Whether it's help getting ready for the day, at mealtime, or bedtime, our longstanding team is ready to make sure each our residents enjoy the opportunities that living at a Integritus Healthcare facility presents each day.
Integritus Healthcare offers free CNA training/certification for our RCA’s. Earn your CNA certification while working as an RCA. We also provide free school for CNAs who want to advance their career in nursing and obtain their nursing degree.
Full, part and per diem positions are available on various shifts. Hours and days are flexible. Candidates must be willing to work some weekend and rotating holidays.
The primary purpose of this position is to provide each of the assigned residents with routine daily
care by assisting with direct resident care duties and indirect resident care duties, as directed by the charge nurse, and/or certified nursing assistants.
Essential Job Functions:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Assist residents in dressing and personal hygiene.
• Assist CNAs with residents requiring 2-staff transfer except in mechanical transfers.
• Make occupied bed. Assist in obtaining weights.
• Provide full or partial bed bath.
• Perform incontinent care in bed to residents who can move in bed.
• Assist residents who are not on swallowing or aspiration risk with meals.
• Pass, set up, and collect trays.
• Place belongings within resident’s reach (call light, glasses, TV remote, glasses, etc.)
• Answers call bells in a timely manner.
• Make unoccupied bed. Empty commodes and urinals.
• Transport residents to the dining room for meals.
• Accompanying residents on outside appointments as needed.
• Visit with residents providing 1:1 supportive interaction (i.e., read their mail, newspapers, or books to them, transport them for visits outdoors when within residents’ care plan, transport to activities, transport to hairdresser, help to write letters, make telephone calls, etc.)
• Assist residents in communication involving technology (zoom, face time, skype, google meet, etc.).
• Assist with monitoring residents to maintain safety providing 1:1 supervision as needed.
• Organize, straighten, and clean closets and dressers (i.e., clothes hung neatly on hangers in closet, folded neatly in drawers, trash and soiled laundry removed.)
• Ensure personal care items are put away and stocked (check with Team Leaders or Nurse Manager for appropriate stock.)
Qualifications:
• Must possess, at a minimum, a high school diploma or equivalent.
• Must be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language.
• Must possess the ability to deal tactfully with personnel, residents, family members, visitors, government agencies/personnel, and the public.
• Must possess the ability and willingness to work harmoniously with other personnel.
• Must have patience, tact, a cheerful disposition, and enthusiasm, as well as the willingness to handle difficult residents.
• Must have to desire to begin your career in nursing.