Nursing Assistant- VA Community Living Center Home Health

About the role

Nursing Assistants play a vital role in delivering compassionate, hands-on care to Veterans in their homes. You will support daily living needs, promote safety and dignity, and collaborate closely with Registered Nurses to provide meaningful, mission-driven care.

Responsibilities

• Drive a government-issued vehicle to patient homes within a 60-minute radius of the Sioux Falls area; maintain safe driving practices, and adhere to all travel and documentation requirements.
• Provide care in a variety of home environments, including those that may be cluttered, unsanitary, or have known infestations; use appropriate infection control and safety precautions at all times.
• Provide personal care such as bathing, feeding, oral care, hygiene, and grooming.
• Assists with range of motion, ambulation, positioning, and turning.
• Utilizes principles of safe body mechanics in lifting, transfers, equipment handling, and care activities.
• Recognizes and properly uses equipment, materials, and supplies as delegated by the Registered Nurse (RN).
• Applies slings and braces when indicated.
• Prepares simple or light meals and reports any nutritional concerns to the RN.
• Observe skin integrity during personal care and immediately report any skin concerns, changes, or potential pressure areas to the RN.
• Performs light housekeeping tasks including dusting, sweeping, dishes, laundry, trash removal, and linen changes in the Veteran's home.
• Assists with bladder and bowel elimination, observes and reports function, and may apply condom catheters.
• Collections basic diagnostic specimens such as stool, urine, and sputum.
• Maintains accurate and timely documentation of daily care in the electronic health record and maintains required competencies including Basic Life Support (BLS).
• Maintains a valid driver's license for home visits.

Requirements

• Valid driver's license to travel to assigned homes while delivering high-quality, Veteran-centered care.

Qualifications

• Completion of an intensive, specialized, occupation-related training course of study or program of less than one year as a Nursing Assistant may also meet in full the experience requirements for GS-3.
• One year of experience as a Nursing Assistant or in another medical field (licensed practical nurse, health technician, hospital corpsman, etc.), performing technical and nursing skills requiring knowledge of the human physical and emotional states, therapeutic communication, and technical skills required for basic and intermediate treatments.
• Successful completion of two (2) years above high school in an accredited institution with courses related to nursing care, health care or in a field of study appropriate to the specialization of the position, such as education in a program for psychology, psychiatric, or operating room technicians.
• Successful completion of 4-year course of study above high school leading to a bachelor's degree that included 24 semester hours of courses related to health care or possession of a bachelor's degree.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and regular salary increases.
• Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance.
• Retirement.
• Telework: Not available.
• Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Pay

• Competitive salary and regular salary increases.

Schedule

• Intermittent; Monday-Friday 7 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.