Personal Care Attendant (PCA) Caregiver - Day Shift
Job Summary
About the role
Prestige is seeking a dedicated and compassionate individual to join our team as a Resident Care Assistant. This position involves providing direct resident care, completing assignments as a universal worker, assisting in maintaining a positive physical and psychosocial environment for residents, and upholding Prestige’s core values of respect, integrity, commitment, and trust.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
- Affords residents, visitors, and staff courteous greetings and answers phones when assigned
- Fulfills community fire safety and infection control practices and promptly reports any unsafe conditions or equipment to immediate supervisor
- 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
- Affords tours, move-ins, move-outs, and transfers and coordinates personal care service with co-workers assisting with lifting and responds to assistance pages promptly
- Affords apartment housekeeping services and resident’s laundry
- Attends and participates in training, in-services, and staff meetings
- Performs other related duties as assigned
Qualifications
- Must complete and pass competency evaluation within 120 days of employment
- Must have completed and passed 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 job duty with or without reasonable accommodation
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED with one or more years of personal care experience with older adults preferred
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Company Information
Prestige is 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.