Full Time CNA/Medaide

CNA/Medaide Opportunity

Brookridge, a ThriveMore of NC Community located in Winston Salem, NC is seeking a qualified full-time C.N.A/Medaide to join our team. Come join a team that is dedicated to making sure our residents receive first-rate continuum of care and services tailored to fit their needs.

Schedule:

• Day (7am-7pm) shift
• Overtime
• Weekend availability

Job Objective

Provides a variety of personal care services to meet the care needs of residents. Assists each resident in maintaining his/her personal dignity and control of his/her life, consistent with the facility's policies and programs, and the rules and regulations of regulatory agencies of the federal, state, and local governments.

Job Qualifications/Duties

• Work history in caring for older adults preferred.
• Be at least 18 years of age.
• Completed high school or GED equivalent.
• Must be C.N.A Certified and MedAide Certified, in good standing with the state of North Carolina and can be found on the NC Nurse Aide Registry.
• Must be able to use the English language to satisfy the communications and record keeping requirements involved in the performance of this job position with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Must maintain neat, well-groomed appearance adhering to dress code of the facility.
• Must satisfy all established licensing and certification requirements applicable to this job position.
• Must be able to safely perform all essential job functions without harm to self or others with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Must comply with facility's drug testing and substance abuse program and policies.

Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Provides, or assists resident with personal care needs, including: bathing, dressing and undressing, eating, ambulation, oral care, hair and nail care, elimination needs, shaving, application of make-up.
• Takes and records temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure according to instructions.
• Observes and reports immediately any physical and/or behavioral changes in resident to Assisted Living Coordinator.
• Administers medications and treatments to residents according to doctor's orders, at times specified, and charting same immediately after medications and/or treatment
• Assists residents with feeding as needed in dining room, or take tray of food to his/her room and assist him/her when he/she is unable to come to the dining room.
• Possess a working knowledge of how to operate the medicine cart, how to maintain security and safety of medicines in cart, and report immediately to Assisted Living Coordinator any losses or discrepancy in medicine count.
• Maintain a neat and orderly medicine cart and medicine room,
• Coordinate daily orders of drugs and related medical supplies with Assisted Living Coordinator. Transfers orders from Physician Order Form to MAR's and checks monthly MAR for accuracy.
• Assists residents to participate in individual and/or group activities planned and carried out in or outside the Home,
• Uses appropriate techniques to assure infection control; this includes good handwashing techniques and adherence to other infection control practices.
• Follows all safety, security, infection control, universal precautions, and hazardous materials policies and procedures. Performs all tasks to assure resident personal safety and the protection of co-workers and facility property,
• Knows and ensures that all resident rights are maintained at all times. Reports any violations or suspected deviations according to facility property,
• Uses appropriate and safe body mechanics techniques, and all appropriate assistant devices, when lifting and/or transferring residents or supplies.
• Documents in the nursing assistant notes the care and treatment provided to the resident and the resident's response or lack of response to care provided.
• Maintains confidentiality of all resident care information.
• Works tactfully and cooperatively with resident, families, visitors, and other staff throughout the facility.
• Comes to work as scheduled and consistently demonstrates dependability and punctuality.
• Changes work schedule or works overtime on occasion to meet the needs of the facility.
• Attends and participates in staff meetings, care planning, in-service sessions as scheduled.
• Knows and follows existing lines of communication and authority,
• All items marked with an asterisk are considered Essential Job Functions for this position.
• Maintains a working knowledge of personnel policies and other information contained in the Employee Handbook.
• Assists other staff members as needed within the limits of training and certification,
• Signs all Medical Administration Records and daily report sheets at the time the service is given. Keep all records up to date and signed.
• Assist with housekeeping items such as laundry, etc... and the cleaning of equipment. Assist with "making of the beds" for residents.
• Performs other related duties as directed by supervisor.

Physical/Mental Requirements

• The ability to frequently transfer or assist a resident to or from beds, chairs, toilets, tubs and showers. This requires the ability to push, pull, and lift from 25-75 pounds unassisted.
• Frequently push/pull residents weighing 80-300 pounds in wheelchairs.
• The ability to frequently use all of the equipment listed below, as well as thermometers, blood pressure equipment, a writing instrument, safety pins, buttons, snaps, buckles and tie strings.
• Must be able to frequently move about in tight spaces and between objects, equipment and furniture, and to accurately manipulate wheelchairs and medicine carts through doorways, move linen carts, etc.
• Constant walking and standing is required, up to 90% of eight-hour days, to provide resident care and assistance.
• Able to frequently stoop, twist, bend, squat, kneel, and climb stairs to perform essential job functions.
• Reaching overhead is frequently required to obtain linens and stock from shelves ranging from floor to six feet, and to remove or replace resident items on closet shelves.
• Handling, feeling, fingering, and grasping is frequently required for detecting pulse, using resident care items, and providing tactile stimulation to residents.
• The frequent ability to visually identify a resident within a reasonable distance, to focus and read a thermometer, blood pressure gauge and similar equipment, and to identify colors for warning lights, signs, and labels,
• Must have the ability to frequently receive verbal instructions and converse with residents, coworkers, and visitors. Must also be able to respond to audible emergency signals, alarms, call light indicators and be able to answer a caller on the phone,
• Must be able to frequently concentrate on moderate details with frequent interruptions.
• All items marked with an asterisk are considered Essential Job Functions for this position.
• Attention span necessary to attend to a task/function for 10-25 minutes at a time related to nurse assistant duties. Must be able to remember multiple tasks and assignments over the course of an 8-hour shift.
• Ability to understand and frequently carry out the verbal and written instructions of physicians and other health care professionals concerning the care and treatment of residents.
• Able to remember and enact emergency procedures and lost resident procedures.
• Comprehension of in-service materials and principles as required to understand and apply in practice.

Benefits Include:

• Medical, Dental and Vision insurance after 30 days of employment
• Company paid Life Insurance
• Paid vacation and holidays
• Short & Long Term Disability
• 403 (B) Retirement Plan with company matching funds after two years of full-time employment
• Direct Deposit

We are an equal opportunity employer and prohibit discrimination/harassment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.