Resident Service Assistant

Come work at Madison’s #1 Senior Living community!

Attic Angel Community is a retirement community based out of Middleton that provides high-quality services in a caring and personalized atmosphere that respects the dignity, encourages the independence and enhances the quality of life of each resident.

Attic Angel Community believes in diversity and inclusion among our volunteers, staff and residents. We value a culture of many voices and ideas. Our community is stronger when we create an environment including people of all races, sexual orientations, and ethnicities. We commit to respect, embrace and learn from differences, and educate ourselves and advocate for racial and economic justice, equality, and equity. We commit to recruit, retain, and mentor a diverse workforce and volunteer organization. We will work with community leaders and the philanthropic community to address systemic racism.

Job Description:

As a Resident Services Assistant, your main goal is to support the residents within our facility and help promote independence. This is done by supporting resident’s emotional needs, independence and engaging with them through activities as well as spiritual needs. Provision of direct personal cares to Residents in CBRF or RCAC setting per DHS 83 and 89 regulations.

Essential Job Duties (in order of priority):

1) Activities of Daily Living (ADLs): Provides assistance with:

2) Dressing and undressing (clothing should be clean and appropriate for the season.)

3) Bathing

4) Personal hygiene (shaving, dental hygiene, nail care, hair care, foot care)

5) Mobility devices (cane, walker, wheelchair, crutches) including monitoring of safe transfer and ambulation techniques

6) Care of devices such as eyeglasses, contact lenses, hearing aids

7) Fostering independence and choice as possible

8) Coordinating and organizing daily schedules for assigned residents.

9) Application of ointments / treatments per plan of care and level of training/delegation.

10) Telephone (assists with calls, phone repairs, hearing and vision adaptive devices)

11) Light housekeeping tasks such as emptying trash, bed making, general pick up and straightening

12) Laundry

13) Escorts and coordinating internal transportation needs

14) Mail delivery, residents' personal correspondence

15) Health Maintenance and Monitoring

6) Observes and reports changes in residents' physical condition and cognitive/emotional status to direct supervisor, as needed

17) Obtains and records vital signs and weights; performs and records assigned treatments / tasks.

18) Conducts room checks and resident rounds

19) Monitors for and corrects environmental safety hazards

20) Records incidents, errors, or accidents

21) Records resident and resident-related events

22) Charts required information and signs entries

23) Assists in a variety of tasks related to dining (ie. escort residents to dining room, set up and clean tables, serve meals, light cooking, and bus tables.)

24) Provide support of proper set-up, cueing, use of adaptive equipment.

25) Participates in unit cleaning duties such as sweeping / vacuuming after meals, cleaning unit refrigerators, facility and resident equipment cleaning.

26) Responds to and acts appropriately in emergency or disaster situations

27) Performs resident care utilizing Standard Precautions

28) Leadership Responsibilities:

29) Plans and completes duties with minimal direction from supervisor.

30) Follows up with appropriate staff, residents, or other individuals regarding reported complaints, problems, and concerns.

31) Gives and receives resident report to the nurse.

32) Provides a high level of customer service to residents, staff, families, visitors with a hospitality focus.

33) Orders and monitors appropriate use of resident care, office and other needed supplies.

34) Makes photocopies of special paperwork or forms, assists with filing, filling out forms as assigned.

35) Coordinates daily resident assignments which may include placing calls to staff for coverage.

36) Completes food supply lists.

37) Provides safe environment for residents, visitors and staff.

38) Medication Assistance: per plan of care, as assigned and per training/delegation:

39) Assists residents with administration of medications (oral, topical, nasal, eye, ear), including monitoring of medication supplies and documentation

40) Assists with diabetic monitoring such as obtaining, recording and reporting blood glucose levels

41) Communicates with Leadership/nurse resident response to medications, change of conditions.

Enjoy a $1200 sign on bonus paid out after 90 days!

Available Schedules: Day Shift: 6:00am-2:30 pm, PM Shift: 2:00pm-10:30pm, or Noc Shift: 10:00pm-6:30am (includes every other weekend).

PM: $0.85

Weekend: $1.00

NOC: $1.25
PM Weekend: $1.85
NOC Weekend: $2.25

Attic Angel provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training and apprenticeship. Attic Angel makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

At Attic Angel we are dedicated to hiring diverse talent and ensuring that we treat you with respect throughout the interview process and once you join the team. We embrace diversity and strive to create conditions that provide everyone with an equal opportunity to thrive.

Job Types: Part-time, Full-time

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Work Location: In person