What are the responsibilities and job description for the Certified Nursing Assistant position at Rainbow Community Care?
Company Description
Rainbow Community Care, founded in 1990, provides services supporting patients and families throughout their journey with aging and serious illness. Specializing in hospice care, palliative care, advance care planning, grief support, parish nursing, and volunteer programs, we serve people in various settings including their homes, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, and Rainbow Hospice Care Inpatient Center in Johnson Creek, WI.
BONUS ELIGIBLE: This position is bonus eligible upon completing 6 months of successful employment. Bonus range $3,000 - $5,000 based on hospice experience. Rainbow Community Care is currently accepting applications for dedicated full time home hospice CNAs. Use your skills to provide high quality home care to terminally ill patients.
Essential Duties include, but are not limited to:
- Assists with ambulation and transfers of patient.
- Maintains a clean, safe and comfortable environment.
- Prepares meals and assists patients with eating.
- Gives emotional and psychological support to the patient/family.
- Reports status/observations of assigned patients according to RCC guidelines.
- Promotes patients’ independence.
- Maintains up-to-date patient records and documents care given and patient condition for each visit.
- Assists the patient in activities of daily living including personal grooming, feeding, drinking, toileting, bathing, skin care, nail care, dressing, transferring and walking. Light housekeeping duties as assigned.
- Other duties and projects as assigned.
Personal Qualifications:
- Maintains patient confidentiality.
- Maintains all required licenses, certifications or registrations required of this position.
- Drives to and from patients’ homes and to meetings at other locations as necessary.
- Able to be flexible and be included in weekend and holiday rotation schedule.
- Able to maintain healthy boundaries.
- Able to maintain positive interpersonal relationships.
- Self-directed.
- Sensitive to needs of others without being judgmental.
- Tactful and courteous in contact and communication with others.
Professional Qualifications:
- Valid driver’s license required. Current auto insurance required.
- Certification as a Nursing Assistant and valid registration with the Wisconsin CNA Registry required.
- Minimum of 6 months CNA experience preferred.
- Hospice experience is preferred.
Rainbow Community Care offers an excellent Benefit Package!
This just may be the career that you’ve been looking for!
Rainbow Community Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of 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.
