Assisted Living Aide FT Days 7 am- 3 pm

SEM Haven•Milford, OH

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Care Coordinator works cooperatively and respectfully with residents, co-workers, families, visitors and volunteers to create a positive and pleasant environment in the home. He or she delivers personal care to residents according to facility policies and procedures, quality improvement guidelines and local, state and federal regulations. The Care Coordinator actively promotes the resident’s opportunities for engaging in normal life pursuits and improving and/or maintaining functioning levels. The Care Coordinator is a participant in resident-centered care and team based management and is involved in daily life activities in his or her assigned household(s). The focus of SEM Haven is to be a resident-centered organization based on resident choice. SEM Haven is a family, which includes residents and staff, as well as resident families and staff families. The final goal is to provide support for each of its members. Your role as a staff member is to provide the residents of SEM Haven with the support, friendship, and most importantly, kindness, so they may live as independently as they wish to in their homes. The most important function of your position is that you treat everyone you come into contact with as a person deserving respect. No person is any more or less important than any other and all should be treated in this manner. As a member of a family team you have the additional responsibility to perform tasks as necessary to maintain life on the household. These tasks will be within your knowledge and training i.e. assist with food preparation/serving; picking up clutter, removing trash, cleaning spills; transporting residents; attending household meetings/learning circles and fulfilling simple requests for residents.

Requirements

Ability to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of resident care programs.
Patience, listening skills, verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
Interpersonal skills.
Respect for all people - residents, co-workers, family members, doctors, volunteers, and anyone who visits our home.
Respect for possessions – keeping living and work areas clean, orderly and presentable at all times.
Flexibility – willingness to modify job duties for the overall good of the home and our residents.
Ability to move freely about.
Regularly lifting of up to 50 pounds.
Occasional climbing/balancing.
Regularly stooping/bending.
Occasional pushing (up to 25 lbs.).
Regularly standing, sitting, walking.
Regularly reaching.
Must be able to speak, read & write the English language in an understandable manner.
Must be able to see and hear or use prosthetics that will enable these senses to function adequately to ensure that the requirements of position can be fully met.
Freedom from illegal use of drugs and freedom from use and effects of use of drugs and alcohol in the workplace is essential.

Nice To Haves

One year experience working with the elderly preferred.

Responsibilities

Deliver personal care to residents according to facility policies and procedures, quality improvement guidelines and local, state and federal regulations.
Actively promote the resident’s opportunities for engaging in normal life pursuits and improving and/or maintaining functioning levels.
Participate in resident-centered care and team based management.
Be involved in daily life activities in his or her assigned household(s).
Provide residents with support, friendship, and kindness.
Assist with food preparation/serving.
Pick up clutter, remove trash, clean spills.
Transport residents.
Attend household meetings/learning circles.
Fulfill simple requests for residents.