Caregiver

SR COMPANIES LLC•Oak Ridge, TN

20d

About The Position

The Caregiver enhances the SRIM experience by providing heartfelt care to residents and their families and demonstrating the company’s golden-rule value. The role supports residents’ daily living needs—including activities of daily living, meals, light housekeeping, and laundry—while encouraging independence and maintaining a dignified, safe, clean, and caring community environment. The Caregiver interacts respectfully and compassionately with residents, families, visitors, associates, and management; observes and reports changes in residents’ health and emotional wellbeing; and follows established policies, procedures, safety practices, and HIPAA requirements. The position also supports dining and leisure activities, responds to requests for assistance, works collaboratively with the team, and helps train and mentor new employees. The position requires the ability to read and comprehend simple instructions and correspondence, write simple correspondence, communicate effectively in one-on-one and small-group situations, and apply common-sense reasoning to routine instructions and problems. A high school diploma or GED, one to two years of related experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination is listed. The employee regularly stands, walks, uses hands, reaches, and talks or hears; frequently stoops, kneels, crouches or crawls and uses taste or smell; and occasionally sits, climbs or balances, and lifts or moves up to 50 pounds. The work environment includes occasional exposure to blood-borne pathogens.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED, one to two years of related experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
Ability to write simple correspondence.
Ability to present information effectively in one-on-one and small-group situations to customers, clients, and other employees.
Ability to apply common-sense understanding to detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions and address problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
Ability to meet the physical demands of the role, including regularly standing, walking, using hands, reaching, and talking or hearing; frequently stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling and tasting or smelling; occasionally sitting and climbing or balancing; and occasionally lifting or moving up to 50 pounds.
Ability to work in an environment with occasional exposure to blood-borne pathogens.

Responsibilities

Assist residents with activities of daily living, including dressing, grooming, peri-care, toileting, and hygiene, while encouraging independence.
Interact with residents at all levels of care with empathy, kindness, compassion, and respect.
Observe and report daily to a supervisor changes in residents’ health and emotional wellbeing.
Serve and assist residents in the dining room at breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Initiate and participate in leisure activities listed on the activity calendar.
Maintain a clean, safe, and orderly environment and perform general housekeeping according to established schedules.
Perform housekeeping and laundry duties to keep the community orderly, clean, and sanitary.
Respond promptly and courteously to residents’ requests for assistance, including phone calls and requests from family members and visitors.
Communicate in a language each resident can understand.
Ensure residents or their responsible parties sign residents out when they leave the community.
Maintain a safe and secure work environment, practice safe working habits and good body mechanics, and promptly report hazards to a supervisor.
Follow established policies and procedures during emergencies; serve as essential personnel during emergencies or inclement weather and remain at the community until released by a supervisor.
Assist associates when requested or required and work as a team with associates and management to complete assignments.
Maintain a positive and respectful attitude toward work issues, policies, procedures, residents, families, visitors, associates, and management.
Comply with attendance and call-off policies; participate in training, in-service sessions, and mandatory meetings; and follow the dress code.
Refer family and visitor inquiries about resident care to the immediate supervisor rather than discussing resident care issues with them.
Understand and comply with HIPAA regulations.
Assist with training and mentoring new employees.
Take initiative without being asked, seek additional information, offer solutions and suggestions, and willingly take on special projects or assignments outside regular duties.
Perform other reasonable duties as assigned or requested.