Lead Caregiver

Job Description

Job Description

Independence Village of Saginaw

Lead Caregiver - $17.50 Per Hour

Schedule: Full-Time 3PM-11PM with rotating weekends and holidays

Benefits:

• Comprehensive benefits - Medical, dental, vision, 401K, and more!
• PTO and Michigan Sick Time
• Positive and welcoming team culture!
• Great work-life balance with an employee-first mission

Required Experience:

• High school diploma or GED preferred
• Previous health care or geriatric experience preferred
• CNA or MA preferred with 2 years of related experience or training
• CPR/First Aid certification strongly preferred
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out written/oral/visual instructions

Position Summary:

• Lead, manage, and overall accountability for your team and their performance
• Timely & Accountable Attendance: Upholding to work schedule, being ready to start work on time, remaining on the job for the whole duration of shift, and limited use of time off
• 1440 Care for residents: Understanding and leading our 1440 care standards so you and your team ensure that each resident and each family has their needs met
• Responsible communication with families: communicating messages tactfully and timely with resident’s families and ensuring the message has been received and correctly understood
• Communicate resident changes immediately; providing timely and detailed information to your Wellness Leader regarding any changes to a resident’s needs or care

Other Key Responsibilities:

• Leads and provides 1440 care
• Will provide compassionate and competent care for residents by performing the following services:
  • Bathing, showering and grooming assistance
  • Serve and collect food trays; assist residents with dining
  • Wheelchair and walking escorts
  • Toileting and incontinence care assistance
  • Meal, activity, and medication reminder assistance
  • Wake up and turn down service
  • Upkeep of resident rooms
  • Answers resident call signals
  • Medication assistance/medication administration
• Maintains appropriate and complete documentation per company policies
• Input information into Yardi/CareStream
• Available to work weekends and/or on call as necessary as assigned by the Wellness Coordinator
• Work toward continual improvement of the overall organization
• Perform other duties as assigned

General Working Conditions

This position entails standing for long periods of time. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to communicate effectively with others, sit, stand, walk and use hands to handle keyboard, telephone, paper, files, and other equipment and objects. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms. This position requires the ability to review detailed documents and read computer screens. The employee will occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. The work environment requires appropriate interaction with others. The noise level in the work environment is moderate. Occasional travel to different locations may be required.

Connecting Seniors, Families and Communities

For over 37 years, our senior living communities have served seniors and their families across Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, and Tennessee, with each location offering unique services including independent, enhanced, and assisted living, as well as memory care and rehabilitation and skilled nursing. Through forming authentic connections and committing to creating the absolute best experiences each day for our residents and their families, we’ve created a special culture within our communities that allows our employees to do their best work and our residents to shine every day.

Not Just Making Every Day Great. Making Every Minute Great. There are 1,440 minutes in every single day. We aspire to make each one of them an exceptional moment. This philosophy is supported by our 6 powerful, yet simple pillars: Dream Big, Have Courage, Take Initiative, Be Accountable, Give Back & Enjoy it. We strive to fulfill the aspirational yet unattainable goal of creating the absolute best experience with every person, in every interaction, every minute of every day.

It begins with empowering our employees. Every employee, at every level of the company, is expected to perform like a leader. Everyone is encouraged and expected to put the needs of each other above everything else. No one here just “does their job” The mission is to create the absolute best experiences. This emphasis on putting people first has helped us successfully grow for the right reasons.

We have developed an environment that attracts dreamers, adventurers, creators, givers and believers to seek career opportunities with us. We find people who believe that true happiness is only found in the service of others. We want high-performers with diverse skill-sets and big hearts. We treat each other as family and find that close collaboration creates the biggest ideas.

If you love serving others, and are looking for an opportunity to thrive, CommonSail Investment Group and our businesses is your destination.

This classification description is intended to indicate the general kinds of tasks and levels of work difficulty that are required of positions given this title and should not be construed as declaring what the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position shall be. It is not intended to limit or in any way modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct and control the work of the employees under her/his supervision. The use of a particular expression or illustration describing duties shall not exclude other duties not mentioned that are of a similar kind or level of difficulty.

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