Caregiver - Full Time

• Use PCC to ensure correct resident when assisting with ALDS, meals, etc.

• Report all changes in the resident's condition to the Health and Wellness Director as soon as practical.

• Record all entries on notes, SPAs, and incident reports, etc., in an informative, descriptive manner.

• Report all accidents and incidents you observe on the shift that they occur to the Executive Diretor and Health and Wellness Director.

• Agree not to disclose resident's protected health information and promptly report suspected or known violations of such disclosure to the Executive Dir3ector.

• Report any known or suspected unauthorized attempt to access community's information system.

• Perform only those care tasks that you have been trained to do.

• Ensure that the resident's room is ready for the resident (i.e., bed made).

• Greet residents and escort them to their room.

• Introduce residents to his/her roommate, if any, and other residents and personnel as appropriate.

• Make residents comfortable.

• Inventory and mark the residents personal possessions as instructed.

• Store resident's clothing.

• Assist residents with packing their personal possessions when they are being transferred to a new room, or when being discharged.

• Transport residents to new rooms or to the receiving area.

• Assist with loading/unloading residents' to/from vehicles as necessary.

• Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest and positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment throughout the unit and shift.

• Meet with your shift's nursing personnel, on a regularly scheduled basis, to assist in identifying and correcting problem areas, and/or the improvement of services.

• Report all complaints and grievances made by the resident.

• Participate in and receive the nursing report as instructed.

• Follow established policies concerning exposure to blood/body fluids.

• Make beds as instructed.

• Put extra covers on beds as requested.

• Ensure that residents who are unable to call for help are checked frequently.

• Answer resident calls promptly.

• Check residents routinely to ensure that their personal care needs are being met.

• Assist residents with identifying food arrangements (i.e., informing resident with sight problem of foods that are on his/her tray, where it is located, if it is hot/cold, etc.).

• Keep residents' water pitchers clean and filled with fresh water (on each shift), and within easy reach of the resident.

• Perform after meal care (i.e., remove trays, clean resident's hands, face, clothing, etc.).

• Receive the nursing report upon reporting for duty.

• Perform all assigned tasks in accordance with our established policies and procedures, and as instructed by your supervisors.

• Follow work assignments, and/or work schedules in completing and performing your assigned tasks.

• Cooperate with inter-departmental personnel, as well as other facility personnel to ensure that servic...