Seeking Excellent P/T Caregiver for Memory Care Community

PACS Group•Newport Beach, CA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Seeking an excellent part-time caregiver for a Memory Care Community. This role involves providing direct care to residents, ensuring their comfort and well-being, and maintaining a safe and positive environment. The caregiver will be responsible for a variety of tasks, from assisting with daily living activities to documenting resident conditions and reporting any changes or incidents. A commitment to maintaining resident confidentiality and following established facility policies and procedures is essential.

Requirements

Proficient in Microsoft Suite products.
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers and employees.
Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations.
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Prolonged use of a desk top or laptop computer.
Regularly required to sit, stand; walk and talk, read or hear.
Frequent use of all office related equipment to include; copier/scanner/fax, telephone, and calculator.

Responsibilities

Use wristband or photo card to identify residents before administering treatments, serving meals, etc.
Use only authorized abbreviations when recording information.
Report all changes in resident's condition to the Nurse as soon as practical.
Record all entries on flow sheets, notes, charts, etc., in an informative, descriptive manner.
Report all accidents and incidents observed on the shift they occur.
Agree not to disclose resident’s protected health information and promptly report suspected or known violations.
Report any known or suspected unauthorized attempt to access facility’s information system.
Perform only those care procedures that have been trained to do.
Ensure that the resident’s room is ready for receiving the resident.
Greet residents and escort them to their room.
Introduce resident to their roommate, if any, and other residents and personnel as appropriate.
Make resident comfortable.
Inventory and mark the resident’s personal possessions as instructed.
Store resident’s clothing and inventory all personal belongings.
Assist residents with packing their personal possessions when they are being transferred to a new room, or when being discharged.
Transport residents to new rooms or to the receiving area.
Assist with loading/unloading residents to/from vehicles as necessary.
Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest and positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment throughout the unit and shift.
Meet with shift’s nursing personnel on a regularly scheduled basis to assist in identifying and correcting problem areas, and/or the improvement of services.
Report all complaints and grievances made by the resident.
Participate in and receive the nursing report as instructed.
Follow established policies concerning exposure to blood/body fluids.
Make beds as instructed.
Put extra covers on beds as requested.
Ensure that residents who are unable to call for help are checked frequently.
Answer resident calls promptly.
Check residents routinely to ensure that their personal care needs are being met.
Assist residents with identifying food arrangements.
Keep residents’ water pitchers clean and filled with fresh water (on each shift), and within easy reach of the resident.
Perform after meal care.
Receive the nursing report upon reporting for duty.
Perform all assigned tasks in accordance with established policies and procedures, and as instructed by supervisors.
Follow work assignments, and/or work schedules in completing and performing assigned tasks.
Cooperate with inter departmental personnel, as well as other facility personnel to ensure that services can be adequately maintained to meet the needs of the residents.
Notify the facility when you will be late or absent from work.
Report occupational exposures to blood, body fluids, infectious materials, and hazardous chemicals in accordance with the facility’s policies and procedures.
Assist residents with daily functions (dental and mouth care, bath functions, combing of hair, dressing and undressing as necessary).
Keep residents dry (change gown, clothing and linens, when it becomes wet or soiled).
Assist residents in preparing for medical tests.
Assist with lifting, turning, moving, positioning, and transporting residents into and out of beds, chairs, bathtubs, wheelchairs, lifts, etc.
Perform restorative and rehabilitative procedures as instructed.
Assist in preparing the resident for a physical examination.
Check each resident routinely to ensure that his/her personal care needs are being met in accordance with his/her wishes.
Observe and report the presence of pressure areas and skin breakdowns to prevent decubitus ulcers (bedsores).
Report injuries of an unknown source, including skin tears.
Observe disoriented and comatose residents.
Record and report data as instructed.
Perform special treatments as instructed.
Immediately notify the Nurse of any resident leaving/missing from the facility.
Use only the equipment that has been trained to use.
Report defective equipment to the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse.
Maintain the confidentiality of all resident care information including protected health information.
Report known or suspected incidents of unauthorized disclosure of such information.
Report all allegations of resident abuse and/or misappropriation of resident property.
Honor the resident’s refusal of treatment request.
Report such requests to your supervisor.
Assist residents with dressing/undressing as necessary.
Assist residents with hair care functions.
Assist residents with nail care.
Shave male residents.
Keep hair on female residents clean as instructed.
Position bedrest residents in correct and comfortable positions.
Assist resident with bowel and bladder functions.
Maintain intake and output records as instructed.
Keep incontinent residents clean and dry.
Check and report bowel movements and character of stool as instructed.
Utilize protective and adaptive equipment as instructed.
Provide eye and ear care as instructed.
Weigh and measure residents as instructed.
Measure and record temperatures, pulse, and respirations (TPRs), as instructed.
Assist with the care of the dying resident.
Assist with post mortem care as instructed.