Hospice: Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), FT M-F days & no wknds (North Metro)

Job Description

Job Description

The Hospice Certified Nursing Assistant is primarily responsible for helping with personal care needs including baths, medication administration, back rubs, oral hygiene, shampoos and changing bed linen as often as assigned. 

Position:  Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)  for Hospice

Hourly Wage: $20.00 - $25.00 an hour, depending on experience

Schedule: Full - Time, 1.0 FTE / Monday – Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm (no weekends, evenings or on-call)

Service Area: North Central / Northeast Metro (coverage area: Blaine, Lino Lakes, Centerville, Circle Pines, Anoka, Brooklyn Park, Bethel and surrounding areas). Plus, mileage reimbursement of 72.5 cents per mile.

Lifespark is a complete senior health company headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Since 2004, we’ve been helping seniors stay healthy, navigate their health care options with confidence, and live fuller, more independent lives as they age. That’s where our people come in – from accounting and health technology to front-line nurses, advanced practice professionals, caregivers and everything in between, we are all invested entrepreneurs focused on helping people age magnificently.

Lifespark Benefits Include:

• Annual Reviews/Raises  
• Paid Time Off – Vacation Time 
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits for Full Time Hires 
• Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance 
• Life Insurances 
• 401k + Company Match 
• Referral bonuses 
• Career path to other positions within our growing company!

Position Functions & Responsibilities:  

• Performing personal care needs after given a patient's assignment and attending to his/her requests promptly. If unable to perform a certain task, report to the Case Manager immediately
• Providing patient and family with positive communication techniques, within realm of ethical and respectful care, including confidentiality
• Meeting safety needs of patient and using equipment safely and properly (foot stools, side rails, O2)
• Giving personal care including baths, back rubs, oral hygiene, shampoos and changing bed linen as often as assigned
• Assisting in dressing and undressing patients as assigned
• Planning and preparing nutritious meals, including shopping, as assigned
• Assisting in feeding the patient as assigned
• Taking and recording oral, rectal and auxiliary temperatures, pulse, respiration and blood pressure when ordered with appropriate completed/demonstrated skills competency
• Providing proper care and observation of patient's skin to prevent breakdown of tissue over bony prominence
• Assessing and reporting on patient's condition and significant changes to the Case Manager
• Aware of the caregiver or other individuals living with the patient and interpersonal issues
• Assisting in ambulation and exercise as instructed by the hospice nurse or therapist
• Provide normal range of motion and transfers/positioning as directed
• Assistance with self-administered medications as allowed by state regulations, such as “reminders”
• Offering and assisting with bedpans and urinals
• Providing assistance as assigned with light laundry needs
• Performing range of motion and other simple procedures as an extensional therapy service as ordered with appropriate completed/demonstrated skills competency
• Providing respite for patient's/family/caregiver when on-site, as appropriate
• Keeping patient's living area clean and orderly, as assigned
• Adhering to the organization's documentation and care procedures and standards of personal and professional conduct
• Participates in quality assessment performance improvement teams and activities
• Respectful of patient and family/caregiver environment and patient's personal needs
• Follow all Emergency and Response Procedures
• Identifies home safety issues and notifies RN Case Manager or Clinical Manager of concerns or issues
• Demonstrates proper procedures: handling, lifting, transfers
• Injury – Now What? Follows protocols
• Overview of Process, Types of Reports and Forms
• Follow-up Required – Escalating Event
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications: 

• Must be a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) on the State Registry
• Must have 3 years of experience as a CNA, hospice preferred
• At least 18 years of age
• Must have Driver's License
• Understands hospice philosophy, comfortable providing specialized care to the terminally ill
• Is self-directing with the ability to work with little direct supervision. Secure with issues of death/dying.  Provides a calm manner when in a patient’s home
• Must pass a MVR check based on Lifespark company policy

Our Lifespark culture has created not only an award-winning workplace — earning Star Tribune Top Workplace 12 times, Minneapolis Business Journal Best Places to Work three times, and Top USA #1 in Healthcare — but a place where you have the room to be creative, make a difference, and have a purposeful, direct impact on how people age. Lifespark’s full continuum of services offers a breadth of roles with the support to grow your career. To see the experience we are creating, watch our award-winning video Going South – this is the experience you will help create at Lifespark! Changing the age-old story starts with you – let’s get you hired.

It has been and will continue to be our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to age, race, creed, color, disability, marital status, sex, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, arrest record, conviction record, military service, use or nonuse of lawful products off the Employer’s premises during nonworking hours, or declining to attend a meeting or to participate in any communication about religious matters or political matters, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.