What are the responsibilities and job description for the CRMA/PSS Weekend Warrior 6a-6p position at PIPER SHORES?
Join the team at Piper Shores! We are Maine’s first and only nonprofit Continuing Care Retirement Community and we are looking for looking for compassionate, dedicated, and hard-working people like you to join a group of professional helping to enhance the well-being of our residents.
The CRMA/PSS performs a wide variety of tasks including assistance with activities of daily living, responding to routine and emergency calls, performing routine nursing duties, and personal care activities and medication distribution.
Piper Shores is committed to hiring high-quality, professional, and caring individuals. Join our team, and help make a real difference
Schedule: Saturday & Sunday, 6a-6p (Work 24 hours and get paid an 8-hour baylor bonus!)
CRMA/PSS Job Duties:
- Assists residents in our traditional skilled care unit (nursing home) with activities of daily living including dressing, bathing, dining and activities.
- Assists residents with activities of daily living, including but not limited to, dressing, grooming, eating, bathing, positioning, turning, toileting and exercising.
- Documents residents’ activities of daily living.
- Maintains the self-respect, personal dignity, and physical safety of each resident.
- Gives treatments, performs tests, carries out procedures and collects specimens as instructed, under the supervision of licensed nursing personnel.
- Transfers, transports and escorts residents as needed.
- Answers signal lights promptly.
- Changes bed linens, makes beds and keeps rooms clean and orderly.
- Safely prepares, administers, and charts oral, topical, and suppository drugs.
- Follows administration protocol. Administers medication only upon a written physician’s order.
- Records administration of the medication on resident’s medication administration record. Discards medication refused or otherwise not given and refusals.
- Reports medication errors or reactions to medications immediately to the Assisted Living Manager.
- Performs accurate pulse and blood pressure and recognizes their significance in drug therapy.
Our Ideal Candidate:
- Has an exceptional bedside manner and strong communication skills.
- Works well in a team-setting as well as independently.
- Demonstrates compassion as well as professionalism in all elements of their work.
- Active CRMA certification and PSS or CNA License in the state of Maine
- Is eager to learn and grow as a member of the Piper Shores team.
Please note that per Maine state requirements, all Piper Shores employees must be fully vaccinated against Influenza.
