What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assisted Living Caregiver position at Northern California Congregational Retirement Home?
We are seeking a compassionate and reliable Assisted Living Caregiver to provide personal care and assistance for our residents. The ideal candidate will have a passion for helping others, a strong work ethic, and the ability to provide high-quality, compassionate care. As an Assisted Living Caregiver, you will play a key role in enhancing the quality of life of our resident by ensuring their physical, emotional, and social well-being.
Job summary: .Provide routine assistance with ADLs in accordance with our established policies and procedures and as may be directed by the Residential Care Director or a nurse, to assure that the highest degree of quality resident care can be maintained at all times.
Essential responsibilities will include, but are not limited to the following:
- Perform all assigned duties in accordance with our established policies and procedures, assistance with ADLs, and our safety rules and regulations.
- Assist residents with activities of daily living including dressing, bathing, denture and oral care, toileting, incontinence, grooming, laundry
- Encourage, Invite, and assist resident to organized activities
- Assist residents to go for a walk
- Maintain confidentiality of resident and facility information.
- Report all accidents/incidents and unsafe conditions to the nurse or Residential Care Director immediately.
- Document required information as instructed.
- Answer resident call lights promptly; ensures that the call system is within the resident’s reach when in bed.
- Serve drinking water as required; ensure that water pitchers are clean and filled with fresh filtered drinking water daily.
- Attend and participates in educational in-service programs as required.
- Ensure that assigned areas are neat, clean and that supplies are promptly stored and replaced as needed before the end of the shift.
- Maintain infection control and prevention practice according to policies and procedure
- Make beds and other light housekeeping tasks as directed.
- Assist residents to and from bathrooms as needed. Reports any incident of unmanaged incontinence to the nurse or Residential Care Director.
- Accompany resident to appointments as needed
- Respond to Medical Emergencies as needed
- Assist residents with self-administration of medications
- Manage medical and non-medical appointments for residents according to policies and procedures