Resident Assistant (RA) | Long Term Care

Position Highlights

Great opportunity for high school student interested in healthcare! Student will start in Resident Assistant role and work toward becoming a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) after several months.

About the role

The Resident Assistant is accountable for assisting with personal care to residents in accordance with their care plan. Performs scheduled activity. Performs housekeeping duties to maintain a sanitary, orderly and attractive environment.

Responsibilities

• Assists the resident with all facets of daily living including meals, medications, housekeeping and laundry.
• Respects residents’ valuables and personal property, including but not limited to clothing, dentures, glasses/contact lenses, hearing aids, and prosthetic devices.
• Reports any changes observed in residents’ condition or behavior.
• Answers call lights, anticipates resident needs, and completes frequent rounding.
• Prepares residents’ rooms and their belongings for admission, transfer, and discharge.
• Fulfills proper procedures for linen changes, soiled laundry, cleaning of furniture, equipment, and utensils.
• Follows proper procedure for reporting equipment that is in need of repair.
• Aids residents to activities, assist with or direct activities.
• Keeps work environment clean and tidy, including resident rooms, kitchen, utility rooms, staff lounge, refrigerators and storage areas.
• Replenishes supplies in each area as needed; gloves, soap, paper towels and kitchen supplies.
• Prepares dining room for meals. Is familiar with the diet extensions when preparing special diets.
• Courteously serves meals with attention to eye appeal, sanitation, and temperature.
• Follows sanitary food handler techniques. Reports poor quality or unsafe food so it is not served.

Requirements

The individual must be able to work the hours specified. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds.

Qualifications

The individual must have a High School or GED Equivalent.

Skills

Commitment to the daily application of Avera’s mission, vision, core values, and social principles to serve patients, their families, and our community.

Benefits

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions, as long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer.

Pay

The pay range for this position is listed below. Actual pay rate dependent upon experience.
$17.25 - $21.25

Schedule

Primarily days with possible weekends/evenings/holidays.