Certified Medication Technician
About The Position
The Certified Medication Technician enhances and improves the SRIM experience through compassionate care for residents and their families. The role supervises residents’ self-administration of medication and assists with activities of daily living, meal service, light housekeeping, and laundry while encouraging resident independence. The technician interacts regularly with residents, responds to requests for assistance, and reports changes in residents’ health or emotional well-being to a supervisor. The position also supports dining and leisure activities, maintains a clean and safe community, follows emergency procedures, and contributes to a respectful, dignified environment for residents, families, visitors, and associates. The role requires compliance with workplace policies, attendance requirements, dress code, HIPAA, and mandatory training, as well as assisting with the training and mentoring of new employees. Other reasonable duties may be assigned. The position is located at Alderbrook Village in Arkansas City, Kansas. The listed salary is $18.00 per hour. Work is performed in a residential care community, with occasional exposure to bloodborne pathogens.
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, subtract, multiply, and divide using two-digit numbers and tens and hundreds, including calculations involving American money and units of weight, volume, and distance.
- Ability to apply common-sense understanding to written, oral, or diagrammed instructions and handle problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
- Knowledge of word processing software and electronic medical records.
- Ability to perform the essential physical duties, including regularly standing, walking, using hands, reaching, and talking or hearing; frequently stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling, and tasting or smelling; occasionally sitting and climbing or balancing; and occasionally lifting or moving up to 50 pounds.
- Ability to work in an environment where occasional exposure to bloodborne pathogens may occur.
Responsibilities
- 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 with empathy, kindness, compassion, and respect, and communicate in a language each resident can understand.
- Observe residents and report daily changes in their 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 leisure activities described in the activity calendar.
- Maintain a clean, safe, orderly, and dignified environment for residents, families, visitors, and associates.
- Perform general housekeeping duties according to established schedules and provide housekeeping and laundry services to maintain a clean and sanitary community.
- Respond promptly and courteously to requests for assistance, including calls and requests from families and visitors.
- Ensure residents or responsible parties sign residents out when they leave the community.
- Maintain a safe and secure work environment, practice safe body mechanics, and immediately report hazards to a supervisor.
- Follow established policies and procedures in emergencies; serve as essential personnel during emergencies or inclement weather and report to or remain at the community until released by a supervisor.
- Work collaboratively with associates and management and assist associates when requested or required.
- Comply with attendance and call-off policies, dress code, HIPAA regulations, and other established policies and procedures.
- Attend or participate in trainings, in-service sessions, and mandatory meetings.
- Refer family and visitor inquiries about resident care to the immediate supervisor.
- Assist with training and mentoring new employees.
- Take initiative, seek information, offer suggestions or solutions, and willingly take on special projects or assignments.
- Perform other reasonable duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
High school or GED
