Caregiver/Resident Assistant

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides or assists residents with direct personal care including all aspects of personal hygiene and activities of daily living, bathing, dressing, and grooming in accordance with established care procedures and standards.
• Provides assistance to residents, as necessary, with transfers, standing, sitting, and walking.
• Provides medication reminders in accordance with established plan of care.
• Performs a variety of selected cleaning tasks in order to maintain the cleanliness, safety, and attractiveness of the facility and residents’ apartments and living areas, including, but not limited to, dusting, mopping, vacuuming, and trash removal.
• Provides and assists residents with laundry services including changing linens, picking up laundry, labeling, tending laundry equipment, folding, sorting, hanging, and distribution of clothing.
• Communicates regularly with team members to identify and report resident concerns and service needs.
• Other duties as assigned.

Corporate Compliance

• Complies with safety policies and procedures.
• Adheres to laws regarding the protection, use, disclosure, and release of client and CJE business information.
• Attends required in services.
• Reports violations of law, regulations, policies, or procedures.
• Reports client abuse or neglect.
• Records documentation timely, accurately, and completely.
• This position has responsibility for HIPAA compliance in the execution of duties as well as for assuring that subordinate department members are HIPAA trained and compliant.

• Exposure to bloodborne pathogens is not likely to occur in this position.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience                                             

High school diploma/general education degree (GED) or one (1) year experience as a health care aide, companion, homemaker, or other related position required.

Language Skills                                            

• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Reasoning Ability                                                     

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Must have physical coordination, dexterity, agility and mobility and be able to safely and properly assist residents physically with various capabilities, as needed for purposes of bathing, toileting and other activities of daily living.
• Physically assisting residents requires exertion in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or in excess of 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to move and/or position residents.
• Physically assisting residents requires continual substantial control, balancing, stooping kneeling, crouching, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, feeling and repetitive motions.

Customer Service

Displays behavior that creates a customer service culture at CJE by understanding the needs of our clients and customers and demonstrating a strong bias toward service, quality and customer satisfaction.

CJE Values

All staff should demonstrate the CJE Values in their behaviors and work practices.

• Respect—We recognize, honor and acknowledge the inherent value of each person for their wisdom, their culture, their background and their unique history.
• Advocacy—We encourage public policy which will benefit our clients by educating ourselves and the community. Furthermore, we give voice to our clients’ needs and facilitate a positive action on their behalf.
• Compassion—We treat everyone with caring, sensitivity, understanding, and supportive responsiveness.
• Intention—We approach our work and each task with mindful consideration as to what we are doing and why we are doing it, as individuals and as an agency.
• Accountability—We are responsible individually and as an Agency for honest, accurate work and interaction with others. We plan strategically and provide measurable quality care with clear fiscal and ethical responsibility.

CJE SeniorLife is an equal opportunity employer.
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