What are the responsibilities and job description for the Medication Tech position at Sonida Senior Living?
Find your joy here, at Palmilla Senior Living, a Sonida Senior Living community! We offer a comprehensive benefit package to include competitive wage/salary, health and dental insurance, 401k with company match & much more!
Palmilla Senior Living, a premier retirement community in Albuquerque, NM, provides quality care to residents in assisted living and memory care community.
What we offer you:
- Flexible scheduling**
- Cutting edge technology to enhance the lives of our residents and make your job easier and more effective.
- SafelyYou - AI video technology that detects and prevent falls
- Advanced EHR Technologies - automated care assessments eliminating busy work, helping you deliver better care
- Sage - Improve call light response time and improvement to service and care
- Microsoft Power BI - one stop for all data needs
- Company support for educational and learning opportunities
- Paid referral programs for Team Member and Resident referrals
- Medical, dental, vision, and life/disability insurances*
- 401k retirement savings offering a discretionary match determined each year based on company performance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Dependent Care and FSA saving accounts
- PTO available day one
- Paid Training
*Benefit eligibility dependent on employment status
**Eligibility based on location
Medication Aide Responsibilities include:
- You will be responsible for setting up and administering resident medications as ordered by physicians and per professional standards of medication administration, and may supervise CNAs as directed
- Provides patients' personal hygiene by giving bedpans, urinals, baths, backrubs, shampoos, and shaves; assisting with travel to the bathroom; helping with showers and baths
- Provides for activities of daily living by assisting with serving meals, feeding patients as necessary; ambulating, turning, and positioning patients; providing fresh water and nourishment between meals
- Maintains patient stability by checking vital signs and weight; testing urine; recording intake and output information
Qualifications:
- Must be licensed in the state as a Medication Aide and maintain current, active, and unencumbered licensure.