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Personal Care Aide

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Summary:

Responsible for carrying out duties assigned by the Personal Care Manager to ensure that residents receive the highest quality of personal care.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist, encourage and instruct residents with basic life skills, including social, recreational and daily living skills.
• Assist, encourage and instruct residents to maintain clean and safe living environment.
• Assist, encourage and instruct residents in the dining room (i.e. serving drinks, cutting food and cleanup).
• Assist, encourage and instruct residents with dressing and grooming, including helping with dressing and undressing, combing hair and nail care.
• Assist, encourage and instruct residents with bathing and personal hygiene, including bathing, shampooing hair, oral hygiene, denture care and shaving.
• Assist, encourage and instruct residents with mobility and transfer, including assisting with transfer and ambulation when resident can at least partially bear own weight.
• Assist, encourage and instruct residents with toileting and continence, including assisting in going to the bathroom, changing bed linen in compliance with the Bowel and Bladder program.
• Assist, encourage and instruct residents with medication, including assisting with the self-administration of medicine, applying nonprescription topical ointments or lotions.
• Perform scheduled inspection of resident rooms for cleanliness and safety.
• Report potential fire and safety hazards and maintenance or housekeeping concerns.
• Report any verbal or physical abuse (or suspicion) of a resident to the Administrator.
• Monitor smoke lounge.
• Log delivery of PC tasks in the designated software program.
• Perform all other duties as required.

All duties listed are essential unless otherwise noted.

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Personal Care Aide

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Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk and sit. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

Skills:

• Maintain Highest Degree of Confidentiality.
• Time Management.
• Basic Computer Skill.
• Organization.
• Interpersonal Skills.
• Customer Service.
• Oral Communication Skills.
• Professionalism.

Education/Experience:

All basic personal care aides employed by the provider must:

• Be at least 18 years of age.
• Be able to read, write and follow directions.
• Have at least six months paid work experience as a C.N.A.