JOB DESCRIPTION

Resident Care Services RESIDENT CAREGIVER

OVERVIEW OF THE POSITION:

Under the direction of the Administrator, Resident Care Supervisor and or the Resident Care Coordinator. The Resident Caregiver performs tasks that involve specific services for the residents which are supportive and complementary to facility practices such as assisting the residents with their activities of daily living.

ACCOUNTABLE TO: Resident Care Supervisor, Coordinator and or Director of Operations.

STATUS: Non-exempt

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE JOB:

1. Provides a suitable environment for residents by giving attention to cleanliness, ventilation, lighting and furniture arrangements

2. Assists residents to ensure their cleanliness, grooming, nourishment, rest, and activity in a manner conducive to the resident's comfort and safety

3. Preserves the dignity and self-respect of all residents at all times

4. Practices confidentiality about the residents

5. Keeps alert to the residents' conditions and reports changes in the residents' attitude, appearance, behavior and physical ability to the Resident Care Supervisor.

6. Promptly answers call signals.

7. Escorts residents as needed throughout the facility, including any and all transferring responsibilities.

8. Recognizes and respects the individual emotional, social and cultural needs of residents, including their religious beliefs.

9. Attends orientation and in-service training meetings.

10. Takes and records vital signs as needed.

11. Sets up dining room prior to meals.

12. Serves meals.

13. Cleans up dinning room after meals.

14. Assists residents who need help changing their clothes.

15. Assists residents who need help changing adult briefs.

16. Documents care provided in the daily log book.

17. Adheres to the facility's Injury and Illness Prevention Program and consistently performs job duties in accordance with the facility's safe work practices.

OTHER FUNCTIONS OF THE JOB:

1. Performs additional duties as assigned by the Resident Care Supervisor, Resident Care Coordinator and or Director of Operations.

QUALIFICATIONS/REQUIREMENTS:

EDUCATIONAL/VOCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

1. High School Graduate.

2. One year experience in a Residential Care Facility for Elderly or in a Skilled Nursing Facility is desirable.

3. CNA Certification desirable.

DEFINITIONS

NEVER: Does not occur on every shift

OCCASIONALLY: Rarely or up to 1/3 of the time

FREQUENTLY: 1/3 to 2/3 of the time

CONSTANTLY: 2/3 or more of the time

MUST...: Essential function of the job

MAY...: Non-essential function of the job

ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

1. Must be free of communicable disease and skin infection pursuant to applicable regulations.

2. Must be oriented to reality and able to control own emotions.

3. Primary Physical

Demand Level: Medium Work - Must exert force and/or lift or carry objects weighing up to 50 pounds occasionally, up to 30 pounds frequently, or a negligible amount constantly.

4. Endurance-Moving

About: Must move about constantly throughout the facility to perform tasks of the job.

5. Standing: Must occasionally remain on one's feet in an upright position at a work station without moving about.

6. Walking: Must constantly move about on foot.

7. Lifting/Carrying: Must frequently lift/carry linen supplies, food trays, and residents' personal belongings, etc. Lift up to 50 pounds during resident transfers. May carry items up to 20 pounds up to 300 feet.

8. Controls: Must occasionally use one or both arms and/or hands and/or one or both feet or legs to move controls on machinery or equipment.

9. Balancing: Must maintain sufficient body equilibrium to prevent falling when occasionally using step stool, and for safe independent mobility on level surfaces.

10. Bending/Stooping: Must occasionally bend the body downward or forward by flexing the spine at the waist and extend the spine backward or from side to side.

11. Reaching: Must constantly extend the hands and arms in any direction. Highest reach = 78"; lowest reach = 0".

12. Handling: Must constantly seize, hold, grasp, turn, or otherwise work with the hand or hands.

13. Fingering: Must occasionally pick, pinch, or otherwise work with the fingers primarily (assisting dressing residents, using buttons and zippers).

14. Feeling: Must frequently perceive such attributes of objects and materials as size, shape, temperature, or texture, by means of receptors in the skin, particularly the fingertips (assessment of resident and detection of safety issues).

15. Rotating: Must frequently twist and turn the spine or a ball and socket joint such as the shoulder or hip.

16. Talking: Must constantly express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word to impart oral information to clients or to the public and to convey detailed spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly or quickly.

17. Hearing: Must constantly perceive the nature of sounds by the ear.

18. Seeing: Must constantly obtain impressions through the eyes of the shape, size, distance, motion, color, or other characteristics of objects by means of the following major visual functions:

Far Acuity - Clarity of vision at 20 feet or more.

Near Acuity - Clarity of vision at 20 inches or less.

Field of Vision - The area that can be seen up and down or to the right or left while the eyes are fixed on a given point.

Color Vision - The ability to identify and distinguish colors.

LEARNING REQUIREMENTS

1. Reasoning: Minimal - Must frequently apply common sense understanding to carry out simple one or two step instructions; deal with standardized situations with occasional or no variables in or from situations encountered on the job.

2. Mathematical: Minimal - Must occasionally add and subtract two digit numbers. Multiplies and divides 10's and 100's by 2, 3, 4, 5. Perform operations with units such as cup, pint, and quart; and ounce and pound.

3. Reading: Minimal - Must frequently recognize meaning of 2,500 (two or three syllable) words; read at rate of 95-120 words per minute. Compare similarities and differences between words and between series of numbers (labels on supplies and charts).

4. Writing: Minimal - Must frequently print simple sentences containing subject, verb, and object, and series of numbers, names, and addresses.

5. Speaking: Minimal - Must constantly speak simple sentences, using normal word order, and present and past tenses.

RELATIONSHIP REQUIREMENTS

1. Data: Copying - Must frequently transcribe, enter, or post data.

2. People: Serving - Must constantly attend to the needs or requests of people or the expressed or implicit wishes of people; immediate response is involved.

3. Things: Handling - Must constantly use body member, equipment, and/or special devices to transport, move residents, or carry objects or materials. Involves little or no latitude for judgment with regard to attainment of standards or in selecting appropriate equipment, device or materials.

TEMPERAMENT REQUIREMENTS

1. Repetition: Must frequently perform a few routine and uninvolved tasks over and over again according to set procedures, sequence, or pace with little opportunity for diversion or interruption. Interaction with people is included when it is routine, continual, or prescribed.

2. Influencing: Must occasionally write, demonstrate, or speak to persuade and motivate people to change their attitudes or opinions or participate in a particular activity.

3. Variation: Must make frequent changes of tasks involving different aptitudes, technologies, techniques, procedures, working conditions, physical demands, or degrees of attentiveness without loss of efficiency or composure.

4. Elevated Stress: Must occasionally cope with circumstances dangerous to self or others.

5. Precision: Must occasionally adhere to and achieve exact levels of performance to prepare exact verbal and numerical records; and comply with specifications for materials, methods, procedures, and techniques to attain specified standards.

6. Decisive: Must occasionally solve problems, make evaluations, or reach conclusions based on subjective or objective criteria, such as the five senses, knowledge, past experience or quantifiable or factual data in emergency situations.

ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS

1. Location: Inside - Must constantly work inside which generally provides protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.

2. Wet Conditions: Must occasionally have contact with water or other liquids.

3. Odors: Must occasionally be exposed to unpleasant odors.

4. Unique Hazards: Must be at risk of occasional exposure to blood borne pathogens.

WORK SCHEDULE:

Exact schedules are assigned by management. It is the attendance standards of this facility that employees are present and on time each shift they are scheduled to work. Time off may be approved if allowed by applicable policies covering vacation, illness, disability, or leaves of absence.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

THIS JOB DESCRIPTION IS INTENDED TO PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE POSITION. AS SUCH, IT IS NOT NECESSARILY ALL INCLUSIVE, AND THE JOB MAY REQUIRE OTHER ESSENTIAL AND/OR NON-ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS, TASKS, DUTIES, OR RESPONSIBILITIES NOT LISTED HEREIN. MANAGEMENT RESERVES THE SOLE RIGHT TO ADD, MODIFY, OR EXCLUDE ANY ESSENTIAL OR NON-ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENT AT ANY TIME WITH OR WITHOUT NOTICE. NOTHING IN THIS JOB DESCRIPTION, NOR BY THE COMPLETION OF ANY REQUIREMENT OF THE JOB BY THE EMPLOYEE, IS INTENDED TO CREATE A CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT OF ANY TYPE. EMPLOYMENT IS "AT-WILL" AND MAY BE TERMINATED AT ANY TIME BY THE EMPLOYEE OR EMPLOYER WITH OR WITHOUT CAUSE OR NOTICE.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: $15.50 - $17.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Health insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Evening shift
• Holidays
• Night shift
• Weekends as needed

COVID-19 considerations:
Employees must provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination. Anyone entering the building is required to answer a COVID-19 questionnaire, have temperature checked, and wear a medical mask while in the facility. Facility sanitized regularly.

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Fullerton, CA 92832: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

• Caregiving: 1 year (Preferred)

Language:

• English (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• CPR Certification (Required)

Shift availability:

• Day Shift (Preferred)
• Night Shift (Preferred)
• Overnight Shift (Preferred)

Work Location: In person