Caregiver

Triple Crown Senior Living • Bowling Green, KY

7d

About The Position

Chandler Park Assisted Living is seeking a dedicated Caregiver to provide care and clinical-related services consistent with each resident’s comprehensive assessment and care plan. Caregivers are expected to provide care with kindness, compassion, and joy in a welcoming environment that supports residents and helps them feel at home.

Requirements

• Prior experience providing personal care to individuals in a health care setting is preferred.
• Effective verbal and written English communication skills.
• High level of professionalism and ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Enthusiasm and a positive attitude.
• Ability to work independently and demonstrate professionalism and positive leadership.
• Practical interpersonal skills, sound judgment, and good decision-making skills.
• Ability to maintain good working relationships with residents and coworkers.
• Willingness to perform additional duties as assigned.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience giving personal care to individuals in a health care setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide residents’ daily and as-needed personal care, including grooming, bathing, dressing, and oral care.
• Change bed linens and regularly maintain appropriate grooming supplies in residents’ rooms.
• Ambulate and transfer residents using appropriate assistive devices and body mechanics.
• Record residents’ vital signs, weights and measurements, intake and output, food consumption, and other assigned information.
• Turn and position residents as necessary.
• Prepare residents’ rooms with necessary items, such as blankets, pillows, medical equipment, and toiletries.
• Ensure a report has been given regarding assigned residents at the beginning of each shift.
• Respond promptly and courteously to call lights and buzzers, treating each as an emergency until answered.
• Seek assistance from the charge nurse when unsure about an assignment, procedure, or situation.
• Provide care that protects and promotes residents’ rights, dignity, privacy, confidentiality, and active participation.
• Offer and respect residents’ choices and handle their property respectfully.
• Refer to residents by their proper names unless they request otherwise, and avoid using pet names.
• Immediately report unusual occurrences and significant changes in residents’ physical or behavioral condition, social interaction, mood, or treatment refusals to the Charge Nurse, ADON, or DON.
• Maintain good working relationships with residents and coworkers.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• 401(k) retirement plan available to both full-time and part-time employees.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Supportive, inclusive work environment.
• Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and voluntary benefits for eligible full-time employees.
• Opportunity to be part of a growing company.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed