RESIDANT CARE ASSISTANT

Active Healthcare Staffing is looking for a skilled and highly motivated RCA to join the talented staff at AdviniaCare and its Northbridge facility in Northbridge, MA.

Full-time, Part-time, and per diem positions available.

Candidate should be an enthusiastic team player and reliable.

Competitive salary and benefits offered.

Great work/life balance.

We are an equal-opportunity employer.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

A dedicated and motivated person whose purpose is to provide direct and indirect resident care while also providing emotional and physical support for the residents. Their duties may include cleaning, moving residents, assists with personal care, feeding, and doing clerical duties. They will serve shoulder-to-shoulder with health care worker heroes and gain training and experience on the job that can lead to eventually becoming a CNA.

RESPONSSIBILITIES

• Ensures safe environment and safe patient experience.
• Effectively communicates with patients.
• Maintains patient confidentiality.
• Utilizes appropriate patient identification methods when providing direct care.
• Follows abuse reporting requirements.
• Provides close monitoring and observation of at-risk patients.
• Demonstrates safe patient handling and transfers.
• Effectively communicates patient observations to the nurse.
• Reports changes in patient health outcomes, as defined by the institution policy.
• Completes designated care tasks timely.
• Maintains patient dignity and rights and demonstrates sensitivity to cultural diversity.
• Ensures clean patient living environment.
• Assist with safe patient mobility including use of gait belt, wheelchair, mechanical-lift, and other assistive devices.
• Assist with repositioning/pressure-relief for at-risk patients.
• Ensures patient cleanliness through help with hygiene and elimination care.
• Assist with patient nutritional needs, including feeding and adherence to specified dietary orders.
• Bathe and dress patients.
• Maintaining care records for their facility.
• Assist with patient care procedures under direct supervision of a registered/licensed nurse as defined by the institution policy.
• Performs clerical tasks, such as answering phones and scheduling patients.

SKILLS

• Strong emotional intelligence
• Listening skills.
• Passion.
• Dedication.
• Experience.
• Friendliness.
• Communication.
• Attentiveness.
• Sense of humor
• Positivity.

QUALIFICATIONS

• High school diploma.
• Experience working with elderly or disabled people.
• First aid and CPR training preferrable.
• CNA or similar certification a plus.
• Friendly, professional demeanor.
• Good physical fitness.
• Bending, squatting, kneeling
• Lifting and/or carrying 35 lbs.
• Standing for long periods of time.
• Prolonged wearing of PPE provided by the facility, including masks and face shields.
• English proficiency.
• Required safety competency training in infection control, universal precautions, and personal care services.
• Additional training as a direct care worker.