The Fountains at Hilltop is seeking a compassionate Care Specialist for the Memory Care Wing! As a Memory Care Specialist, you'll be at the heart of ensuring the health and wellbeing of our cherished memory care residents, by providing personal care assistance and assistance with all daily living activities. This position must provide protective oversight, redirection, behavior therapies, and customer service to residents. This role is an extraordinary opportunity to blend your compassion, expertise, and commitment to create a vibrant and supportive community within our Memory Care Wing.

This position has a regular schedule of Thurs-Sun from 1:45p-10:15p.

The starting wage range for this role is $16.50-$17.32 an hour. Accepting applications until this role is filled.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Understand and strictly follow all applicable Hilltop, Fountains, and state and federal rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
2. Maintain professional boundaries with all residents, while maintaining the dignity, confidentiality, services, and rights of every client.
3. Providing protective oversight, to include assisting residents, maintaining a safe physical environment, redirecting and assisting disoriented or confused residents, applying and following house rules and honoring resident rights, appropriately reporting and assisting residents experiencing difficulties, and identifying and monitoring visitors to the facility.
4. Providing social supervision, including helping with transportation and ambulation to events, assisting with communication of and attendance to social events, and assisting with general socialization.
5. Providing for the sanitation and safety of residents, including monitoring the safety of the living and common areas, removing and reporting any safety hazards, maintaining safety supplies, redirecting residents away from unsafe areas or situations, etc.
6. Providing personal care to residents as directed by the specific care plan and appropriately documenting care given.
7. Monitoring ambulation and assisting residents to and from meals and/or activities.
8. Performing housekeeping duties to include but not limited to mopping, dusting, trash removal, linen change, stocking supplies, vacuuming, disinfecting/sanitizing, cleaning bathrooms, cleaning bedrooms, cleaning living rooms, cleaning wheel chairs and walkers, organization of apartment, and laundry.
9. Answering radio, pager, and pendant requests for assistance.
10. Assist residents with memory care activities and social supervision.
11. Order meals for residents and serve as needed, clean and sanitize the dining area.
12. Redirection and de-escalation of behavioral residents.

CLEARANCES & HEALTH REQUIREMENTS The following background checks are conducted by Hilltop Community Resources:

• Hilltop Criminal Background Check
• CBI Records Check
• Sex Offender Registry
• Colorado Adult Protective Services Background Check (CAPS)
• Colorado Department of Regulatory Affairs (DORA) Check
• Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) Exclusion List
• Tuberculosis (Tb) Skin Test
• Influenza Vaccination
• Any other required vaccination