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Page Robbins Adult Day Center
Position Title: Care Assistant
Reports To: Nurse
Full-time position (40 hrs.), paying $15/hr.
No part time, evening, or weekend shifts available.
Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:30 AM – 6:00 PM with 30-minute unpaid lunch break
Page Robbins Adult Day Center is looking for a full-time Care Assistant or CNA to join our team. Care Assistants lead our fun and engaging activities and provide exceptional, loving care.
They make each day at Page Robbins the Best Day Ever for our clients!
Responsibilities
- Lead activities for our clients with memory loss – games, exercise, reminiscing, crafts, music, gardening, food preparation, themed parties, and more
- Present activities with creativity and an upbeat attitude to encourage clients to participate
- Help our clients embrace joy in the moment – celebrate what they still have to offer rather than the abilities and memories they have lost
- Collaborate with team to provide highest quality care for our clients
- Encourage client independence, support client choice, and preserve client dignity
- Observe and report physical or behavioral changes
- Observe client needs and adapt to meet them
- Make our center a warm, welcoming, and safe environment for all clients and visitors
- Provide dignified personal care – restroom assistance, bathing, hair care, meal assistance
- Keep the center clean and orderly with light housekeeping
- Spread joy, have fun, and laugh!
The Ideal Candidate
- Fun, kind, patient, engaging, and encouraging
- Ready and willing to learn
- Passionate about working with seniors and adults with memory loss
- Reliable Work Habits
- Team player
- Experience as a professional caregiver
Requirements
- Volunteer or paid experience working with seniors and/or adults with cognitive and physical impairment
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Pass a fingerprint background check and drug screen
- Annual flu shot required
- Reliable transportation
Benefits
- Stable, weekday work hours – including no nights, no weekends, and no holidays
- 11 paid holidays off
- Accrued Paid Time Off, based on tenure
- Short-term disability insurance and a small life insurance policy for all full-time employees
- Option for a simple IRA with a 3% match after qualifying
- Free, chef-prepared daily lunch
- Unique and uplifting work environment
- Knowing you are making a true difference for our clients and their families
*Please note that Page Robbins does not offer employee health benefits.
About Page Robbins Adult Day Center
Page Robbins Adult Day Center is a non-profit day center that provides daytime care for individuals with memory loss and the frail elderly. We are located at 1961 S. Houston Levee Rd. in Collierville, TN. Our mission is to provide unique and uplifting daytime care for adults with memory loss, in a safe environment, while empowering and educating their caregivers and the community. Memory loss is sad, but this is not a sad place! Page Robbins is open Monday to Friday, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. You can learn more about us at pagerobbins.org.
Pay: $15.00 per hour
Application Question(s):
- Have you completely read the job description including pay rate, hours, days, and full time status of the job?
Education:
- High school or equivalent (Required)
Experience:
- Dementia care: 1 year (Preferred)
Shift availability:
- Day Shift (Required)
Ability to Commute:
- Collierville, TN 38017 (Required)
Work Location: In person
Salary : $15