Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), DeMay (Part-time, Nights)

Rochester Regional Health • Newark, NY

3d • Onsite

About The Position

The Certified Nursing Assistant provides high-quality, individualized patient care in collaboration with the nursing team. The role requires initiative while assisting with and maintaining resident care. The CNA follows residents’ care cards, provides personal care and support with activities of daily living, and carries out procedures under appropriate instruction and supervision. The position is part-time, with 24 hours per week on a 10 p.m.–6 a.m. shift and every other weekend, at DeMay Living Center in Newark, New York. The department is Vantassel Dementia.

Requirements

• At least 18 years of age.
• Currently certified in New York State as a Certified Nursing Assistant.
• Moderate clinical physical capacity, including continual movement; standing, walking, and lifting 20–50 lbs.; pushing and pulling medical equipment; assisting with patient positioning; frequent bending, twisting, and reaching; and fine motor tasks.
• High sensory acuity to monitor patient status and respond to alarms or safety concerns.
• Ability to meet substantial emotional and cognitive demands, including decision-making under pressure, responding to emergencies, and maintaining sustained focus.
• TB testing, mask-fit testing, and physical exams are common requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Strong customer service and communication skills.
• High school diploma or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Read and follow each assigned resident’s care card for daily personal care needs, treatments, and therapies; ask the nurse for clarification or direction as needed and suggest improvements to meet residents’ needs.
• Provide personal care, including bathing, toileting, feeding, transferring, and ambulating residents, while promoting involvement and independence to the extent each resident is able.
• Assist residents with personal services such as laundry, keeping rooms neat, operating televisions or radios, and reading or writing letters.
• Assist relatives and visitors, referring questions about a patient’s clinical condition to the supervising nurse.
• Encourage residents to use self-help measures in activities of daily living and to discuss their interests and concerns or reminisce about satisfying subjects.
• Assist with or perform procedures according to policy and with proper instruction and supervision, including admissions, transfers, discharges, taking vital signs, collecting urine or stool specimens, changing colostomy bags and non-sterile dressings, handling soiled briefs, measuring and recording intake and output, providing care to residents on precautions, and caring for dying or deceased residents.
• Use standard precautions.
• Participate in interdisciplinary care conferences when able.
• Observe and report residents’ physical condition, behavior, reactions, appetite, and changes from their usual status to the nurse.
• Report hazardous conditions that may jeopardize the safety of residents, visitors, or staff.
• Transport residents throughout the facility as needed.
• Attend in-services and complete the required number of state-required in-service hours.
• Cooperate with, show courtesy to, and assist all team members.
• Float throughout the facility when necessary.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Signing bonus of up to $2,700.
• Strong benefits package.
• Educational opportunities and support for CNA-to-LPN-to-RN career advancement, described as 100% paid.
• Overtime pay at time and a half.
• Tuition and student loan assistance.
• Diverse caseload involving a vent unit, dementia, long-term care, and short-term rehabilitation.
• Rehabilitation unit connected to a hospital, supporting care transitions and experience with medically complex patients.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed