What are the responsibilities and job description for the Personal Care Attendant (PCA) Caregiver - NOC Shift position at Prestige Healthcare?
Job Summary:
Provides direct resident care,
completes assignments as a universal worker, assists in maintaining a positive
physical and psychosocial environment for residents, and upholds Prestige’s
core values of respect, integrity, commitment and trust.
Essential Functions:
1. Provides direct resident
care while promoting resident dignity, independence and choice, regularly
observes residents’ physical and mental conditions and reports changes to the
Health Services Director, Expressions Coordinator, or Executive Director.
2. Assists with or performs
ADL’s, takes vital signs and weights and accurately documents care services
provided and observations on communication log and incident reports. Reports
and documents all incidents and accidents immediately.
3. Assists residents to and
from dining room and activities.
4. Performs First Aid and
initiates emergency response procedures as required.
5. Greets residents, visitors,
and staff courteously and answers phones when assigned.
6. Follows and supports
community fire safety and infection control practices and promptly reports any
unsafe conditions or equipment to immediate supervisor.
7. Serves meals in the dining
room, assisting residents at meal time, provides resident tray delivery, and
assists with dining room and kitchen clean up and maintenance.
8. Assists with tours,
move-ins, move-outs, and transfers and coordinates personal care service with
co-workers assisting with lifting and responds to assistance pages promptly.
9. Assists with apartment
housekeeping services and resident’s laundry.
10. Attends and participates in
training, in-services, and staff meetings.
11. Performs other related
duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Must complete and pass
competency evaluation within 120 days of employment, state required training including
the Revised Fundamentals of Care, Dementia Care, First Aid, CPR and HIV
training if not able to provide appropriate documentation of prior training.
Must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements
listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability
required. Must be able to perform essential job duties with or without
reasonable accommodation.
EDUCATION
and/or EXPERIENCE
High school diploma or GED with
one or more years of personal care experience with older adults preferred
CERTIFICATES,
LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
Current First Aid and CPR
certification. Food Handlers permit if required by State.
EOE/M/F/VETS/DISABLED – At Prestige, it is our promise to
personally touch lives every day. It is a philosophy of caring based on our
core values of integrity, trust, commitment, and respect, that are at the
center of all that we do. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce
that represents all of us, coming from different experiences, cultures,
backgrounds, and viewpoints. Inclusion is the way we treat one another and how
we celebrate what makes us different.
Prestige is proud to be an Equal
Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race,
religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or
related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression,
age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability,
or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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