Personal Care Assistant (PCA) - Full-Time
Schedule: 12-Hour Shifts | 3 Days On, 6 Days Off
Hours: 7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Starting Wage: $20.00/hour (Higher pay based on experience)
POSITION SUMMARY:
A para professional who gives direct care to our residents in our assisted living facilities. Assignments are given in the form of oral instructions or written work schedules from a Registered Nurse. May transfer or transport residents as allowed by OSHA standards. Work is subject to review in progress and upon completion.
ESSENTIAL FUNCITONS:
- 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.
BENEFITS:
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Accident / Critical Illness / Hospital Indemnity Insurance
- Voluntary Life / AD&D
- Voluntary Short-Term Disability
- Voluntary Long-Term Disability
- Accrued Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 403(b) Retirement Plan with Employer Match
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- 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
- Certified or willingness to obtain dementia care certification strongly preferred