OFH - Lead Caregiver

Creative and caring people, this job is for you! The Holgate Center is seeking Lead Caregivers for our senior living community in Portland, serving 100 residents in our assisted living apartments. 

Holgate Center (HC) strives to provide a positive work environment that fosters collaboration, teamwork, and continuously achieving solid business results.

HC team members unite around a common cause of resident care and community support. This culture brings our team together and ensures everyone is working toward the same goal.

A team that works together with a collective goal to improve our residents care experience creates an internal culture of collaboration and mutual success. HC is passionate about making a positive, lasting impact on our residents and visitors, and so are our team members. 

Wage Range: $18.00-20.00 Depending on Experience 

Benefits:

• Co Company-subsidized medical and dental insurance.
• Voluntary vision, life, and AD&D insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Life Assistance Program (LAP)
• Sick time, vacation time, personal holiday, bereavement time
• 403(b) with Employer Match
• Flexible Spending Account
• Free Parking
• Referral Bonus Program
• Reduced Fare Bus Pass

Required Qualifications

• Minimum requirements include the following:
• At least 1.5 years of caregiving experience in long-term care.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Current CPR/BLS certification.
• Full-time employment status

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides supportive services to nurse(s), RCC, RFC Director, and caregivers as needed/requested and performs duties as assigned.
• Oversee shower schedule, refrigerator cleaning schedule, assistive devices cleaning schedule, and to ensure daily adherence and documentation.
• Assist the facility nurse with the monthly weights and vitals clinic.
• Assists Med Techs with needed additional weights or vitals
• Assist with getting residents to and from scheduled podiatry clinic at the facility
• Assists other caregivers with care and daily tasks to ensure completion and quality.
• Assign additional tasks and distribute work to ensure equitable distribution of tasks for each floor and caregiver.
• Preform a weekly review of all shower sheets and ensure completion.
• Review shower sheets and update nurse of any documented skin issues observed. Bruising, abrasions, open skin areas, redness, rash, swelling, and signs of any skin break down or pressure ulcers. 
• Assists residents with or performs activities of daily living for residents in accordance with care plans and established policies and procedures.  
• Performs ongoing training in safe transfer procedures, gait belt training, and training of safe transfer to and from showers. 
• Responsible for alerting the nurse and/or RCC of care changes, in a prompt manner. 
• Assists the nurse with assigned IP (infection prevention) duties, such as setting up PPE carts, stocking PPE, and placing residents on observation and/or isolation.
• Keeps nurse and supervisor informed of factors that interfere with being able to perform the work as assigned (i.e. resident refusal, request no care from certain caregivers).
• Reports changes in a resident’s condition to the facility nurse and RCC.
• Responsible for regularly checking the schedule and reporting to shifts as assigned. Works with the Staffing Manager to coordinate scheduling changes and time off.
• Has knowledge of the activities department and is responsible for setting up basic activities (such as playing movies and setting up card games) in the absence of the activities director.
• Attends resident care conference meetings with the RCC and Administrator. 
• Participates in care plan creation and updates as requested/needed.