Caregiver Full Time

PACS • East Wenatchee, WA

13d • $22 - $23

About The Position

The Caregiver provides assigned residents with routine daily care and services in accordance with each resident’s assessment and care plan and supervisor directions. The role supports residents’ comfort, personal care, mobility, nutrition, safety, dignity, and social well-being while following facility policies and maintaining the confidentiality of resident information.

Caregivers assist with activities of daily living, including bathing, grooming, dressing, oral care, toileting, continence care, positioning, transfers, and mobility. They monitor residents’ needs and conditions, record and report observations, assist with meals and hydration, and help residents prepare for examinations and treatments. The position also includes maintaining residents’ rooms and beds, supporting room transfers and admissions or discharges, responding to calls, and assisting with end-of-life and post-mortem care as instructed.

The position follows assigned work schedules and procedures, cooperates with facility personnel, and reports incidents, changes in condition, safety concerns, suspected abuse, equipment defects, and confidentiality or information-system violations. The role has no supervisory responsibilities. The listed pay range is $22.00–$23.00 per hour, depending on experience and education; additional compensation may be available for items such as shift differentials, overtime, premiums, or bonuses.

Requirements

• High school education or equivalent, at minimum.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Suite products.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals, and to present information and respond to questions from managers and employees.
• Ability to apply fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• Ability to solve practical problems, work with concrete variables where standardization is limited, and interpret written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule-based instructions.

Responsibilities

• Provide assigned residents with routine daily care and services in accordance with their assessments, care plans, and supervisor directions.
• Use PCC to verify resident information when assisting with activities of daily living and meals.
• Report changes in residents’ conditions, complaints, grievances, accidents, incidents, injuries, skin breakdown, and other concerns to the appropriate supervisor or director.
• Record information in notes, SPAs, incident reports, and other records in an informative and descriptive manner.
• Maintain the confidentiality of resident care information and protected health information; report suspected or known unauthorized disclosure or access.
• Perform only care tasks and use equipment for which the caregiver has been trained.
• Prepare residents’ rooms, greet and escort residents, make introductions, help residents settle in, inventory and store belongings, and assist with room transfers, discharge packing, and transportation.
• Maintain a warm, calm, and positive environment and cooperate with nursing and other facility personnel.
• Participate in and receive nursing reports and communicate with shift personnel to identify and address service issues.
• Follow policies regarding blood and body-fluid exposure and report occupational exposures and hazardous-material incidents.
• Make and change beds, keep residents clean, dry, and comfortable, and ensure residents who cannot call for help are checked frequently.
• Answer resident calls promptly and routinely check that residents’ personal care needs are being met according to their wishes.
• Assist with meals, food identification, after-meal care, and keeping water pitchers clean, filled, and within reach.
• Assist residents with dental and mouth care, bathing, hair and nail care, shaving, dressing, undressing, and other personal care needs.
• Assist residents with lifting, turning, moving, positioning, transfers, and transportation, including use of beds, chairs, wheelchairs, lifts, and other equipment as trained.
• Assist residents with bowel and bladder functions, maintain intake and output records as instructed, and report bowel movements and stool characteristics as instructed.
• Perform restorative, rehabilitative, and special treatments as instructed and use protective and adaptive equipment as directed.
• Assist residents in preparing for medical tests and physical examinations; weigh and measure residents and record temperatures, pulse, and respirations as instructed.
• Observe disoriented and comatose residents, report missing residents immediately to the Nurse, and report defective equipment to the Nurse Supervisor or Charge Nurse.
• Honor residents’ refusals of treatment and report such requests to a supervisor.
• Assist with care of end-of-life residents and post-mortem care as instructed.
• Notify the facility when late or absent and follow assigned work schedules and tasks.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with low monthly premium payments for employees and dependents.
• 401(k) plan with employer match.
• Paid vacation accruing at 4 hours per month.
• Paid sick time.
• Seven paid holidays each year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: High school or GED