Cna - Care Specialist

Job Description

Job Description

If you are an experienced home health aide who enjoys varied activities that help people lead more independent lives, we’d love to talk to you! We are seeking a kind and compassionate home health aide who has excellent communication and companionship skills to provide basic medical care, light housekeeping duties, personal care, and hygiene tasks so our patients are empowered to live happily at home. You must have 1-3 years of experience in home health, implementing care plans, and making your patients’ health and safety your first priority. If this sounds like the perfect job for you, please apply today!

$16 - $20 hourly

• Maintain psychological and emotional support for patients and family members - provide quality companionship
• Complete basic medical tasks such as taking vital signs, measuring glucose and ketone levels, replacing bandages and dressings, and ensuring the proper use of medical devices
• Help patients complete exercise, and physical therapy and ambulate the patient as indicated in the care plan
• Help patients accomplish personal care tasks like scheduling appointments, calling doctors’ offices, and coordinating Medicare and other insurance details
• Travel with patients to health care service providers, doctors’ offices, grocery stores, or for other errands, as needed

• Administer Medications:  Dispense medications as directed by the Registered Nurse (RN), maintaining an annual error rate of no more than one mistake
• Resident Response:  Attend to any and all resident call lights within 10 minutes to ensure responsive and attentive care
• Light Housekeeping:  Perform regular light housekeeping in resident rooms at least once weekly to promote a clean and comfortable living space
• Keep each room up to high standards of sanitization by changing bedpans and sheets, and performing regular room cleaning
• Service Charting:  Accurately document all services provided without missing tasks, ensuring compliance with company standards
• Assistance with ADLs:  Support residents in Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) according to each individual’s Client Service Plan, with a zero-tolerance policy for missed tasks
• Give patient support with basic care, daily living activities, bathing, getting dressed, going to the restroom, eating regular meals, and taking proper medication dosages
• Activities:  Encourage and initiate activities to enhance residents' mental and physical health and promote socialization

• Extreme Ownership:  Demonstrates accountability, ownership of outcomes, and proactively removes obstacles
• Resourcefulness:  Finds effective solutions even with limited resources and independently seeks knowledge
• Passion for Purpose (Big Why):  Possesses a strong, genuine dedication to serving and caring for vulnerable adults
• Commitment to Growth:  Actively pursues self-improvement and team betterment each day
• Humility:  Embraces a solutions-focused attitude, welcoming feedback, and putting egos aside for the best outcome
• Reliability: Shows up on time, prepared, and ready to deliver dependable support
• Gratitude:  Maintains a positive outlook, seeking and appreciating the good in all situations
• A compassionate, kind, and empathetic personality is essential, with superb organization and communication skills
• Ability to work every other weekend
• CBRF Certifications or willingness to obtain them during employment
• Current CNA license (preferred but not required)

We believe in living with a purpose outside ourselves. VitaCare Living - Spooner is a community full of people with purpose. Our residents wake up each day with another chance to grow and improve the world around them. Our staff work each day alongside people they care deeply about, in careers that build growth, purpose, and fulfillment.

VitaCare Living is an established Assisted Living and Memory Care provider with one purpose: to add LIFE to the years of our residents and staff. With 17 locations across two states, we care for over 300 residents in smaller, comfortable settings that put community, dignity, and purpose first.