Nursing Assistant - Restorative Care

Allied Health Professional

VA Nursing Practice provides excellence in Veteran healthcare across a continuum of services and continuously improve nursing care for our nation's heroes in collaboration with our nursing colleagues. Duties include but are not limited to:

• Performs restorative care modalities including Range of Motion (ROM), Passive ROM (PROM), splint or brace assistance, bed mobility, transfers, ambulation, dressing, grooming, eating, swallowing, amputation/prostheses care, communication, bowel program and bladder program.
• Uses appropriate mobility, balance and strengthening exercises.
• Utilizes task segmentation in assisting residents to complete ADL's
• Ensures residents use of proper shoes, eyeglasses and hearing aid if required by resident.
• Maintains residents personal hygiene, including planning the task and gathering supplies, combing and/or styling hair, washing face and hands, brushing teeth, shaving, or applying make-up, oral hygiene, self manicure, and/or application of deodorant or powder.
• Demonstrates knowledge and skills to care for residents at the end-of-life process
• Provides basic psychiatric nursing care procedures of listening, reassuring, motivating, encouraging, observing, and communicating.

Work Schedule: Sunday to Saturday 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with every other weekend off and rotating holidays

Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases

Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time off per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year). Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior work experience or military service experience.

Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.

Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Telework: Not Available

Functional Statement #: 93018-A, 93019-A, 93020-A

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized