Caregiver Assisted Living Memory Care

DaySpring Senior Living Caregiver /Personal Care Assistant Job Description . Job Summary: Primary Purpose of Job: To provide care to assigned residents in caring, safe and efficient manner. Essential Job Functions: Responsible to perform the following according to Dayspring Assisted Living mission, facility standards, procedures and individualized resident care plans. (A)Resident Care ● Dressing / Undressing: helps residents with dressing and undressing and maintain proper clothing. ● Grooming: assist residents in maintaining proper and clean appearance. ● Bathing: assist residents with bathing and maintaining cleanliness of all body areas. ● Toileting/ Elimination: helps residents with toileting needs. ● Nutrition: helps residents with meals and dietary needs. ● Movement: assist residents with transferring, repositioning and walking. ● Psychosocial Care: accommodates residents’ needs through responding appropriately to residents’ verbal/ nonverbal expression of needs. ● Spiritual Care: assures residents’ spiritual needs are met by willing employees(self or others) (B)Resident Rights ● Property: safeguards residents’ property ● Living Areas: keeps residents’ living areas pleasant and orderly. ● Dignity/ Privacy/ Confidentiality: maintains residents’ self-esteem, privacy and confidentiality of personal information. ● Independence/ Choice: provides residents with opportunities for independence and choice consistent with their care plans ● Advocacy: assures resident rights are protected and that all residents, families/ significant others are made aware of resident rights (C)Communication ● Monitor/ Document: monitors residents’ wellbeing and documents care provided to residents ● Residents Status: receives and shares information; observes and reports residents’ conditions to appropriate staff ● Cooperation: works with team members and other staff members in a helpful, respectful and courteous manner ● Socialization: assists residents in meeting their social needs through interaction with staff, family and other residents ● Customer Service: responds appropriately to resident request for help and maintains positive relationships with residents’ friends and family members; responds promptly to residents’ call lights (D)Safety ● Maintains safe work practices and follows facility safety procedures (E) Infection Control ● Follows facility infection control procedures (F)Other Basic Responsibilities ● Attendance: arrives on time for work and is ready to perform assigned tasks ● Personal Hygiene/ Appearance: meets facility hygiene and appearance standards ● Time Management: prioritizes and completes work assignments within reasonable and agreed upon time frames ● Conduct/ Polices/ Procedures: follows facility conduct standards and policies and procedures performing all work alcohol and drug free ● In-Service Training / Meetings: meets requirements for in-service training and meeting attendance per facility policy and state and federal requirements ● Continuous Quality Improvement: actively participates and woks to identify and improve quality and work outcomes individually and as part of a team ● Technology Skills: seeks to learn and utilize appropriate equipment and trends in technology ● Professional Certification/ Licensure/ Standards: maintains required certification/ qualifications and associations standards (G)Other ● Performs other related duties as assigned Following are the minimum requirements to be hired into this job: Minimum Hiring Requirements ● Knowledge: basic ability to communicate and comprehend; ability to measure and comprehend certain quantities: (A high school education or higher is not required to be hired to this job.) ● Prior Experience: prior work experience may not be required to be hired into this job ● Basic Abilities: ability to meet the physical and mental abilities of the job as outlined in job description (Reasonable accommodation for qualified