Starting Range $19.10-$23.00/hour **based on experience**!
Promote principles of resident directed care including honoring residents’ desires, strengths, and preferences. Promote residents’ highest level of function
Transfers residents, in wheelchairs, from room to common area, dining area, activities, or church
Once certified, administers medications as ordered, including insulin, injections, topical, enteral, oral, etc.
Understands the importance and necessity of accurate documentation
Assemble, thin, and disassemble resident charts as necessary
Responds to inquiries from families, and other referral sources by providing information about the facility, including tours when the Villa Care Coordinator or Admissions Coordinator are unavailable
Provides care on the basis of infection control and blood borne pathogen best practices
Answer resident call signals
Turn and reposition residents alone or with assistance, to prevent bedsores
Collect specimens such as urine, feces, or sputum as needed
Observe resident conditions, measuring and recording intake and output and vitals as needed and ordered. Report changes to professional staff, physician, and/or family
Provide residents with help walking, exercising, and moving in and out of bed. Bathe, groom, shave, dress and complete incontinent care as needed. Assist residents with eating
Skills/Requirements
Our successful caregivers are preferred to have experience as a caregiver in a CBRF or other healthcare setting, but other candidates will be considered as well.
