Direct Care Aide

Description

About the Center of Family Love

Center of Family Love (CFL) in Okarche, OK is a faith-based, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that provides residential and employment programs for adults with intellectual disabilities by cultivating their interests, skills and independence to live creative, productive and joyous lives. We are located 30 minutes west of north Oklahoma City.

Job Summary:

This position provides quality long-term care to residents with developmental disabilities in an environment that champions their rights, dignity, health, independence, and individuality. This position will serve as daily caregiver to assigned residents, utilizing specific care procedures and programs to provide the best quality of life.

Qualifications and Training Requirements:

A high school diploma or GED equivalent; successful completion in the DDCA training program. Must hold current DDCA certification in Oklahoma. Must have moderate reading, writing, grammar, and mathematics skills, as well as proficient interpersonal relations, effective communication skills, and work well in a team environment.
Moderate reading, writing, grammar, and mathematics skills; proficient interpersonal relations and communicative skills; auditory and visual skills; ability to bend, stoop, sit, stand, reach, and lift items weighing 50 pounds or less; satisfactory completion of post-offer, pre-employment physical as required.
A minimum of three months' prior nursing assistant experience in long-term care preferred.

Physical Requirements:

This position requires constant standing, walking, and bending, as well as the continuous ability for verbal communication and hearing in order to communicate with residents, employees and the public. Vision for reading, recording, and interpreting information, and the ability to lift/carry/push a maximum of 50 pounds is required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide attentive, caring, hands-on nursing care to residents in an intermediate care environment that promotes individual rights, dignity, freedom of choice, and individuality.
• Provide individualized attention to residents on weekends, paying special attention to their individual needs, including assistance with grooming, bathing, oral hygiene, feeding, incontinent care, toileting, colostomy care, prosthetic appliances, transferring, ambulation, range-of-motion, communicating, educational programming, and other needs in keeping with the individuals' care requirements.
• Must learn the individualized care plan for residents assigned to you and be able to anticipate their needs, provide support, and engage them in ways indicated in their individual care plans.
• Contribute to the care planning process of your assigned residents by getting to know them so that you can develop effective communication, intuit and identify needs, and serve as a proactive advocate for unmet needs.
• Ensure the comfort, privacy, and dignity of each resident in your delivery of services to them by displaying warmth, kindness, and individualized attention that promotes a caring environment.
• Work consistently throughout your shift on completing job duty checklists to ensure that the home is maintained as a safe, neat, and clean home environment. Report all environmental issues to the charge nurse, QIDP, Assistant Administrator, and/or Administrator.
• Constantly observe residents for changes in condition or behavior, and promptly report these changes to the charge nurse, Director of Nursing, QIDP, Assistant Administrator and/or Administrator.
• Perform resident bed checks every two hours without fail as required by law. Answer all resident call bells promptly and courteously whenever needed.
• May be called upon to perform various medical tasks assigned by the charge nurse, such as taking vital signs, residents' weights, applying creams/ointments, collecting specimens, etc.
• Constantly work alongside residents to help them to engage in active daily living, such as cooking their own meals, doing their laundry, cleaning their rooms, and participating in engaging workshops that are growth oriented.
• Assist with helping new residents settle into their new homes, help to make resident families feel comfortable on campus and in their loved ones new units when transfers occur.
• Lift, move, and transport residents as needed depending on their unique mobility issues. Learn and use proper body mechanics and lifting devices to prevent resident and employee injuries.
• Learn and practice communicating and interacting with adults who have developmental disabilities in a way that fosters and protects their personal dignity, growth and freedom.
• Learn and practice interacting warmly with visitors, families, and volunteers who frequently visit residents on campus.
• Learn and understand the importance of documentation paperwork. Complete required grids by documenting the care that you provide, track residents progress daily, and complete other required documentation in keeping with State and Federal guidelines and regulations.
• Perform all caregiving responsibilities in accordance with prescribed safety and infection control procedures including thorough hand washing, use of disposable gloves where indicated, and proper disposal of soiled materials.
• Walk extensively to and from various locations of the intermediate care units while making timely rounds and transporting residents within the facility as needed.
• Responsible for promptly reporting to the charge nurse or administrative staff all incidents or evidence of resident abuse or violation of residents' rights in keeping in keeping with the Abuse, Neglect, and Misappropriations of Funds policy. .
• Protects privacy and confidentiality of information pertaining to the residents, employees, facility information and records. Must take can pass HIPPA exam upon hire, and continue to use this knowledge when exposed to confidential resident protected health information.
• Maintain a safe and secure working environment and practice safe working habits. Report on the job incidents and injuries to supervisor and HR as soon as possible and within required 24-hour time frame.
• Must comply with the Center of Family Love call-in and attendance policy, including the selection of one stay-over shift, as required by company policy. All employees must contact their supervisors directly when calling in tardy or absent.
• Consistently honor CFLs Dress Code policy by wearing scrubs on every shift, covering visible tattoos, maintaining a neat appearance, and good personal hygiene.
• Participates in training, in-services, and meetings as required.
• Other duties and responsibilities as directed.
• Performs duties and responsibilities in a manner consistent with the Center of Family Loves values of teamwork, respect, integrity, compassion and kindness.

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