What are the responsibilities and job description for the PT PM Caregiver position at Willow Brooke Senior Living?
Position Summary The Caregiver supports residents with activities of daily living including personal hygiene, socialization, cognition, and physical health. Encourages resident independence, supports resident choice and preserves resident dignity through professional conduct and interactions. Essential Functions and Responsibilities · Ensures the CAPLICO Core Values and Code of Conduct are adhered to at all times. · Ensures compliance with Resident Rights and HIPAA policies at all times. · Demonstrates teamwork by communicating with other staff, actively working to resolve problems and lending assistance to other community staff. · Provides residents with assistance for personal needs according to the support/care plan. · Resident needs may include, but are not limited to: toileting, bathing, dressing, grooming, mobility, transport, and dining. · Practices patience, compassion, and empathy in all interactions with residents. Focuses on residents’ abilities and provides social/emotional support and encourages the resident to be as independent as possible. · Promotes improved quality of life for residents through person-centered care and daily interactions. This includes prompt response to calls for assistance, sensitivity to resident needs for socialization and for privacy, providing direct assistance to participate in activities, and providing appointment reminders. · Interacts and communicates with residents and family members respectfully. Refers family members to nurse or supervisor for service/care concerns. · Consistently utilizes Standard Precautions and follows infection control procedures. · Observes for and informs supervisor/shift leader promptly about any changes in resident health/condition, behavior or needs. · Promptly reports unusual events, suspicion of abuse/neglect, and emergency situations. · Assists residents with dining. May include but not limited to preparing/cleaning the dining room, assisting residents with food selection, and serving beverages and food. · Promotes pleasant dining environment and encourages social interaction among residents. · Completes resident laundry as scheduled and according to community policy. · If assigned, cleans resident rooms, bathrooms, common areas according to community protocols & schedules. · Reports maintenance needs promptly. Takes all appropriate safety precautions to minimize risk of injury to resident, self and other staff. · Consistently practices proper body mechanics and safe handling techniques. · Fulfills state regulatory requirements for annual training and/or continuing education. · Attends designated meetings. · May perform other duties as assigned by the Supervisor. The employer for this position is stated in the job posting. The Pennant Group, Inc. is a holding company of independent operating subsidiaries that provide healthcare services through home health and hospice agencies and senior living communities located throughout the US. Each of these businesses is operated by a separate, independent operating subsidiary that has its own management, employees and assets. More information about The Pennant Group, Inc. is available at http://www.pennantgroup.com. Pennant Services is one of the most dynamic and progressive companies in the rapidly expanding senior living, home health, hospice, and home care industries. Affiliates of Pennant Services now operate more than 115 senior living, home health, hospice, and home care operations across 14 Western states and we are growing! These operations have no corporate headquarters or traditional management hierarchy. Instead, they operate independently with support from the “Service Center,” a world-class service team that provides the centralized clinical, legal, risk management, HR, training, accounting, IT and other resources necessary to allow on-site leaders and caregivers to focus squarely on day-to-day care and business issues in their individual agencies. More information about Pennant is available at http://www.pennantgroup.com. Something else that sets us apart from other companies is the quality of our most valuable resources – our people! We are dedicated to living out our culture as defined by our core values, “CAPLICO”: Customer Second Accountability Passion for Learning Love One Another Intelligent Risk Taking Celebrate Ownership By incorporating these principles at all levels of our organization, our employees feel valued and excited about their impact on our service center team members and operational partners. Our culture fosters excellence both personally and professionally and promotes development that leads to continued success. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to ensuring that all conditions and privileges of employment, including recruitment, hiring, evaluation, transfer, promotion, discipline, determination of compensation and/or benefits, and termination of employment, for all job classifications, are based on qualifications and work record. No employment decision is made, nor do we discriminate, on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex/pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, veteran status, or disability.
