Resident Assistant

What you would be doing

The Resident Assistant plays a key role at The Orchards. Resident Assistant's establish caring relationships with our residents and works with them to ensure their comfort and safety by attending to their routine daily needs and reporting care needs to the members of the nursing teams.

The successful candidate

• Is at least 18 years of age.
• Exhibits the capacity to respond to the basic needs of the residents.
• Preferably has prior experience in a residential care facility or nursing home.
• Must possess the ability to make independent decisions, follow instructions, and accept constructive criticism.
• Must be able to deal tactfully with residents, who may be ill, disabled, elderly, emotional upset and potentially hostile as well as family members, visitors, government agencies, and the general public.
• Must be able to understand the needs of the elderly. Must exercise patience and the sincere willingness to meet those needs.
  
  

Rewards and Recognitions

Our employees can take advantage of a menu of health coverage and other benefits.

• Your hourly wage is based on years of experience. Our staring wage, shift differentials and per pay period attendance bonus make our wages highly competitive and hard to beat.
• Health Care Coverage: Choose from three different United Health Care programs. We also offer Guardian Dental and Vision, AFLAC, STD, LTD and Life insurance, and Flex Spending Accounts,
• Combined Time Off/Paid Time Off. Both full and part time employees accrue CTO/PTO hours. Full time employees can accrue 80 hours and part time employees can accrue 40 hours per year.
• Holidays. Seven paid holidays
• 401K
• Tuition Reimbursement, Full time employees become eligible after one year of employment with a maximum reimbursement of up to $1,000 per year. Part time employees are eligible after two years of employment with a maximum reimbursement of up to $750 per year.