Caregiver FT

SR COMPANIES LLC•Bluffton, SC

20h•Onsite

About The Position

The Caregiver enhances the SRIM experience by providing heartfelt care to residents and their families and demonstrating the organization’s Golden Rule value. The role supports residents’ daily living needs—including activities of daily living, meal service, light housekeeping, and laundry—while encouraging independence. The Caregiver helps maintain a clean, safe, dignified, and orderly community, communicates respectfully with residents and others, and works collaboratively with associates and management. The position also includes responding to emergencies and inclement weather as essential personnel, participating in required training and meetings, and assisting with the orientation and mentoring of new employees.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED, or 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 carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
Ability to perform the essential duties satisfactorily, with reasonable accommodation where applicable.
Regular ability to stand, walk, use hands, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear; frequent ability to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and taste or smell; occasional ability to sit and climb or balance.
Occasional ability to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Responsibilities

Assist residents with activities of daily living, including dressing, grooming, peri-care, toileting, and hygiene.
Interact with residents at all levels of care with empathy, kindness, compassion, and respect, using language each resident can understand.
Observe residents and report changes in their health or emotional wellbeing to a supervisor daily.
Serve and assist residents in the dining room at breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Initiate and participate in resident leisure activities listed on the activity calendar.
Maintain a clean, safe, and orderly environment; perform general housekeeping according to established schedules and provide housekeeping or laundry support as needed.
Respond promptly and courteously to residents’ requests for assistance, including phone calls, and to requests from family members and visitors.
Ensure residents or responsible parties sign residents out when they leave the community.
Identify and address objects or situations that could cause harm or falls; practice safe working habits and body mechanics, and report hazards to a supervisor immediately.
Follow established policies and procedures in emergencies; serve as essential personnel during emergencies or inclement weather and remain at the community until released by a supervisor.
Work as a team player with associates and management and maintain a positive, respectful attitude toward work issues, policies, procedures, and others.
Comply with attendance and call-off policies, participate in training, in-service sessions, and mandatory meetings, and follow the dress code.
Refer inquiries about resident care from families and visitors to the immediate supervisor; comply with HIPAA regulations.
Assist in training and mentoring new employees.
Take initiative by seeking additional information, offering solutions and suggestions, and willingly taking on special projects or assignments outside regular duties.
Perform other reasonable duties as assigned or requested.