Certified Medication Technician
About The Position
The Certified Medication Technician enhances the SRIM experience by providing Heartful Care to residents and their families. The role supervises residents’ self-administration of medication and supports residents with activities of daily living, meals, leisure activities, housekeeping, and laundry while encouraging independence. The technician interacts with residents with empathy, kindness, compassion, and respect, and observes and reports changes in residents’ health and emotional well-being to a supervisor. The position helps maintain a clean, safe, orderly, and dignified community environment; responds promptly and courteously to requests for assistance; communicates in a way residents can understand; and follows established safety, emergency, attendance, dress code, and privacy policies, including HIPAA. The technician works collaboratively with associates and management, assists with training and mentoring new employees, and performs other reasonable assigned duties. The role is considered essential personnel during emergencies or inclement weather and may require reporting to or remaining at the community until released by a supervisor.
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.
- Medicine Technician (Med-Tech) certification.
- Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals; write routine reports and correspondence; and speak effectively before groups of customers or employees.
- Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and multiply and divide with tens and hundreds, including using American money and units of weight, volume, and distance.
- Ability to apply common-sense understanding to written, oral, or diagrammed instructions and address problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
- Knowledge of word processing software and electronic medical records.
- Ability to perform the essential duties, with reasonable accommodations where applicable.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate and promote SRIM’s Golden Rule core value in interactions with residents, families, visitors, and associates.
- Supervise residents’ self-administration of medication.
- Assist residents with activities of daily living, meal service, light housekeeping, and laundry while encouraging independence.
- Interact with residents at all levels of care with empathy, kindness, compassion, and respect.
- Observe and report daily changes in residents’ health and emotional well-being to a supervisor.
- Serve and assist residents in the dining room at breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
- Initiate and participate in resident leisure activities described in the activity calendar.
- Maintain a clean, safe, and orderly environment and perform daily housekeeping according to established cleaning schedules.
- Respond promptly and courteously to requests for assistance, including phone calls and requests from family members and visitors.
- Communicate effectively in a language each resident can understand.
- Ensure residents or responsible parties sign residents out when they leave the community.
- Maintain a safe and secure workplace, use safe working habits and body mechanics, and report safety hazards immediately to a supervisor.
- Follow established policies and procedures during emergencies and report to or remain at the community when required until released by a supervisor.
- Work as a team player with associates and management and maintain a positive, respectful attitude.
- Comply with attendance and call-off policies, attend trainings, in-service sessions, and mandatory meetings, and follow the established dress code.
- Refer family and visitor inquiries about resident care to the immediate supervisor.
- Comply with HIPAA regulations.
- Assist with training and mentoring new employees.
- Take initiative, seek additional information, offer suggestions or solutions, and willingly take on special projects or assignments.
- Perform housekeeping and laundry duties to maintain the community in an orderly, clean, and sanitary condition.
- Perform other reasonable duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
