Certified Nursing Assistant

Certified Nursing Assistant

As a Best of Hartford organization, a career at Duncaster in more than just a place to work. Here, you can fulfill your passion for helping others and become part of something meaningful that pays you back in inspiring, heartfelt ways you may have never experienced. Duncaster offers residents a plan for life with independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing services all on a beautiful campus-like setting. Our residents share a bond of mutual respect with our staff that builds memorable and lasting relationships.

Overview

Under the direction of a licensed nurse, a certified nursing assistant performs daily personal care. Their primary responsibility is to ensure the residents' quality of life by meeting their psychosocial needs in a safe and clean environment.

Essential Functions

• Provides personal hygiene (bath, shower, shampoo, shaving, dressing, elimination needs, facial hair clipping, nail clipping, and other personal care).
• Performs safe and proper transfers and assists with ambulation by using assistive devices such as gait belts, walkers, wheelchairs, and mechanical lifts.
• Accurately weighs residents on admission or as assigned in a timely fashion. Takes vital signs and responsibly reports observations and changes in resident condition.
• Checks bedfast or incontinent residents at least every two hours to adjust position, toilet and provide incontinent care.
• Provides for physical comfort and safe environment. This includes consistently monitoring chair and bed alarms. Follows all safety and security policies and procedures; performs all tasks to assure resident and personal safety and the protection of co-workers and facility property.
• Assures resident rooms are in a neat, orderly fashion while maintaining the resident's right to privacy, i.e., neat closets, labeled personal items. Assures cleanliness of utility rooms, kitchens, staff rooms, shower rooms, linen rooms and other work areas.
• Promptly and courteously answers residents' call bells and other requests for assistance; follows residents' plan of care regarding out-of-bed schedule and respects residents' choices for going back to bed unless otherwise ordered by Physician or Charge Nurse.
• Serves meal tray, assists feeding as appropriate, and provides nourishments to residents as assigned in a timely fashion
• Completes documentation in Care Tracker System in an accurate and timely fashion.
• Communicates with nurse any changes in resident condition, particularly behaviors, bowel regime, and skin conditions.
• Follows all policies and procedures, annual mandatory in-services, required meetings, and all other conditions of employment are consistently met.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience

• High school diploma or equivalent is required.
• Current certification as a Certified Nursing Assistant in the State of Connecticut is required.
• Experience with MatrixCare or other electronic medical records is preferred.
• Must be able to speak, read, and write the English language in an understandable manner.

Hours

Per Diem: 1st shift, 7:00am-3:30pm

Pay Rate

$20.00 - 24.00 per hour (based on years of experience) + shift differential (Weekday nights: $1.50 p/h, Weekend nights: $2.00 p/h)

What are the benefits?

Working in a Life Plan community will bring out the best in you. As a member of our team, you'll have the opportunity to pursue a truly rewarding career path, with multiple exciting benefits, including the following: 401(k) with match and profit sharingFree Access to our Aquatic & Fitness Center & to our beautiful walking trails throughout our campusDiscount employee lunchesDuncaster Spotlight Employee Recognition ProgramReferral bonusesFree on-site parkingShoes for Crews - discounted safety shoes for all staffYearly performance increases plus additional bonus opportunitiesEmployee Appreciation Events held throughout the year by our own "Funcaster" Committee