Certified Nursing Assistant OR Personal Care Aide

Discovery Senior Living - Richmond, VA

Part-time,Full-time - Entry Level

Richmond, VA

Nursing and Residential Care Facilities

About the position

Discover your Purpose! Discovery Villages at the West End, a Discovery Senior Living community, is growing and thriving, offering meaningful job opportunities in a safe and supportive work environment. We provide on-the-job training, with no experience required for most positions. Our community is dedicated to providing rewarding career opportunities that include competitive wages, access to wages before payday, and flexible scheduling options with both full-time and part-time hours. Full-time employees enjoy paid time off and holidays, along with a comprehensive benefits package that includes health, dental, vision, and more. Additionally, we offer a 401(K) plan with employer matching, paid training, opportunities for advancement, meals, and uniforms. The Care Giver's role is crucial as it involves providing hands-on care and physical and emotional support to each resident while maintaining a safe and comfortable home-like environment. Caregivers are responsible for a designated group of residents during their shift, ensuring they know where their residents are and physically checking on them throughout the shift. They observe, report, and document symptoms and conditions of residents for any changes, such as skin, behavior, alertness, weight, dietary needs, and participation in activities. Caregivers respond promptly to security systems and resident call bells, notifying supervisors or Health Care Coordinators if a resident has increased care needs. They assist with continence management, ensuring proper sanitation of resident suites and community restrooms, and serve and collect food trays while reporting any refusals of meals or loss of appetite. Maintaining cleanliness in residents' rooms and work areas is essential, as is practicing good standards of cleanliness, hygiene, and health. Caregivers help residents maintain independence, promote dignity, and ensure the physical safety of each resident. They actively participate in and lead residents with activities of daily living, such as bathing, dressing, toileting, grooming, ambulation, transferring, and eating, as instructed. Engaging residents in life skills and other life enrichment activities is also a key part of the role. Caregivers greet and assist all internal and external customers, guests, family members, residents, vendors, and team members, and they may also be responsible for doing resident laundry as assigned. Other duties may be assigned by the Supervisor as needed.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for a designated group of residents during the shift; knows where their residents are and physically checks on them throughout the shift.
• Observes, reports and documents symptoms and conditions of residents for changes in condition such as skin, behavior, alertness, weight, dietary and participation in activities.
• Responds to security system and resident call bells promptly.
• Notifies supervisor and/or Health Care Coordinator if a resident has increased care needs.
• Assists with continence management and disposes of all continence products properly to ensure sanitation of resident suite and community restrooms.
• Serves and collects food trays and assists as needed; reports refusal of meals or loss of appetite.
• Maintains cleanliness of resident's room and work areas.
• Practices good standard care precautions of cleanliness, hygiene, and health.
• Helps residents maintain independence, promotes dignity and physical safety of each resident.
• Actively participates/leads and assists residents with activities of daily living (i.e. bathing, dressing, toileting, grooming, ambulation, transferring, eating) as instructed.
• Engages residents in life skills and other life enrichment activities.
• Greets and assists all internal and external customers, guests, family members, residents, vendors and team members.
• Does resident laundry as assigned and needed.
• Other duties as assigned by the Supervisor.

Requirements

• Certified Nurse's Aid certification preferred.
• High School diploma/GED required.
• Must be 18 years of age.
• Previous experience working with seniors preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive wages
• Access to wages before payday
• Flexible scheduling options with full-time and part-time hours
• Paid time off and Holidays (full-time)
• Full benefit package including health, dental, vision and more (full-time)
• 401(K) with employer matching
• Paid training
• Opportunities for advancement
• Meals and uniforms