Weekend Care Partner

Job Description

Job Description

At Bear Creek Memory Care, we're more than just a healthcare facility. We're a supportive community dedicated to providing compassionate and tailored care for individuals living with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. We pride ourselves on our inclusive and nurturing environment, ensuring that each resident receives personalized attention and respect. Join our close-knit team, where you'll make a meaningful impact every day as a Weekend Care Partner.

In this role, you’ll provide essential care and support to our residents, ensuring their comfort and safety during weekend shifts. You'll engage in personal care tasks aligned with individualized service plans, while also managing housekeeping responsibilities. Your role is vital in observing and reporting any changes to the appropriate department, maintaining necessary certifications, and adhering to all company, state, and federal guidelines. You'll collaborate with a dedicated team to uphold our commitment to excellence, all while enjoying a workplace that values your growth and development. If you're ready to join a team that truly cares, we invite you to apply and help us create a positive, caring environment for our residents. Compensation:

$18 - $19 hourly

Responsibilities:

Essential functions of this job include, but are not limited to:

• Providing care for residents: Universal workers are responsible for following service plans outlining each resident's specific care. Duties would include, but are not limited to, providing personal care services, such as transferring, bathing, feeding, toileting, grooming, dressing, and end-of-life care. Other duties include observation, reporting of changes in condition, taking weights and vital signs, infection control, residents' rights, and Bear Creek policies and procedures.
• Observation, evaluation, and reporting: Strong ability to observe physical, emotional, and psychological changes in residents and the environment. Be able to operate standard equipment such as blood pressure cuffs, thermometers, pulse, and oximeters. Know what and to whom to properly report resident changes and concerns.
• Maintaining required training: Universal workers are required to maintain proper certifications required by local and state licensing agencies, which include ongoing in-service training, accreditations, specific coursework, and certification. Basic state requirements may include, but are not limited to, first aid, CPR, dementia, mental health, nurse delegation, Med aide, lift safe, CEUs, and orientation to include basic skills check-offs.
• Housekeeping Duties: Universal workers are required to maintain the housekeeping duties assigned, including carpet and furniture shampooing, common area cleaning, laundry, and all other duties assigned.
• Continuous Quality Improvement: Universal workers are responsible for following and complying with the Bear Creek CQI program. Universal workers are required to take steps to ensure that services delivered are complete and follow the residents' designed service plan. Identifying issues that do not support quality services will be reported to the immediate supervisor for correction. Safety committee participation as needed. Ongoing awareness of improvements with positive feedback and participation.
• Maintaining compliance with all local, state, and federal guidelines: universal workers are responsible for following all local, state, and federal regulations as they apply to services delivered to all residents. This involves care, documentation, and compliance with HIPAA, OSHA, and bloodborne pathogen guidelines.
• Safety Compliance: Universal workers are responsible for ensuring that they work safely and that unsafe actions are corrected. Compliance with safety committee standards is required. Should workplace injuries occur, the staff is to assist the Executive Director and Health Services Director when required with the investigation, return to work, and management of the injured worker's communication with the care provider and Bear Creek.
• Team Effectiveness: Universal workers are responsible for fostering teamwork with co-workers, showing initiative in overcoming obstacles, taking actions that assist others beyond job responsibilities, and having a positive impact on co-workers, residents, and visitors.
• Perform other duties as assigned and needed.

Qualifications:

• Experience in providing personal care services, including transferring, bathing, feeding, toileting, grooming, and dressing.
• Ability to observe, evaluate, and report physical, emotional, and psychological changes in residents effectively.
• Proven track record of maintaining required certifications and ongoing in-service training, including first aid, CPR, and dementia care.
• Familiarity with operating standard healthcare equipment such as blood pressure cuffs, thermometers, and pulse oximeters.
• Commitment to maintaining compliance with local, state, and federal guidelines, including HIPAA and OSHA regulations.
• Experience in performing housekeeping duties, including cleaning, laundry, and maintaining common areas.
• Ability to foster teamwork and show initiative in overcoming obstacles and assisting co-workers beyond job responsibilities.

About Company

We are a small memory care community in Molalla, Oregon, designed to care exclusively for those experiencing Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.

Our community consists of up to a maximum of 68 residents. We provide individualized care plans, which means each person will receive attentive and detailed care specific to their needs. 

Our Bear Creek family has a full-time nurse as well as a care team able to assist with activities of daily living 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

In these challenging times, we want to bring families peace of mind that their loved ones will be treated with respect, kindness, and compassion in a safe and secure environment while strictly adhering to all state rules and regulations.