Personal Care Attendant (PCA) Caregiver - Swing Shift

Company: Prestige Care, Inc.
Location: Selah
Posted on: November 19, 2021

Job Description:

Position Details:

Status: Full-Time/Part-Time/On-Call

Shift: Day/Evening/NOC

Schedule: Various

Working Hours Start: Various

Working Hours End: Various

Job Summary:

Provides direct resident care, completes assignments as a universal worker, assists in maintaining a positive physical and psychosocial environment for residents, and upholds Prestige's core values of respect, integrity, commitment and trust.

Essential Functions:

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Assists residents to and from dining room and activities.

4. Performs First Aid and initiates emergency response procedures as required.

5. Greets residents, visitors, and staff courteously and answers phones when assigned.

6. Follows and supports community fire safety and infection control practices and promptly reports any unsafe conditions or equipment to immediate supervisor.

7. 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.

8. Assists with tours, move-ins, move-outs, and transfers and coordinates personal care service with co-workers assisting with lifting and responds to assistance pages promptly.

9. Assists with apartment housekeeping services and resident's laundry.

10. Attends and participates in training, in-services, and staff meetings.

11. Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Must complete and pass competency evaluation within 120 days of employment, 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 duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Must be able to perform essential job duties with or without reasonable accommodation.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

High school diploma or GED with one or more years of personal care experience with older adults preferred

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

Current First Aid and CPR certification. Food Handlers permit if required by State.

EOE/M/F/VETS/DISABLED - At Prestige, it is our promise to personally touch lives every day. It is a philosophy of caring based on our core values of integrity, trust, commitment, and respect, that are at the center of all that we do. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce that represents all of us, coming from different experiences, cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints. Inclusion is the way we treat one another and how we celebrate what makes us different.:

Questions? Contact HearthstoneExecutiveDirector@prestigecare.com:

Information About Prestige Senior Living at Hearthstone

Located at 802 East Mountain View Ave. in Ellensburg, Washington, Prestige Senior Living at Hearthstone has 49 apartments of assisted living, as well as 41 units of independent living apartments.

If you are looking for the highest quality of healthcare communities or care centers, you won't find anyone better in the local area. Hearthstone is known only for their high performance locally (we won "Best of Kittitas Valley" in 2019 and 2020) and also enjoyed a deficiency-free survey in 2019, a designation that is quite challenging to obtain, but also shows strong commitment to health care excellence. Also, we were one of only a small handful of care centers and communities in the entire state of Washington to achieve the American Health Care Association's "Bronze" quality care awards. We were the first assisted living in Kittitas County, and the only one to offer independent living.

While our community isn't the newest community in the area, you would enjoy a strong family-like culture where everyone is known by first name, and a work environment that is homey, far from sterile or uptight. Here, you can bring your whole self to work to love and serve our seniors. There is a true team-like aura at Prestige Senior Living at Hearthstone, where we laugh and get to do what we love every day.

If working in a home-like setting, with a strong team atmosphere, and with a national award-winning employer that has a great promote-from-within culture, then Prestige Senior Living at Hearthstone

is the place for you.

Who Is Prestige Care?

Prestige Care is a family of over 75 skilled nursing + post-acute care centers, as well as assisted living and memory care communities in 8 Western states. We are an organization of over 5,000 team members who serve thousands of residents, where we have the privilege of personally touching their lives every day.

We have four core values of integrity, trust, commitment, and respect that guide everything that we do. With a strong commitment to career development and advancement, Prestige Care is a employer that can help you achieve your career goals and objectives. With a healthcare career at Prestige Care, you will enjoy a collaborative, team-oriented environment where your work truly matters at the end of every day.

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