Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) (Part Time, Days)

Rochester Regional Health • Newark, NY

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The Certified Nursing Assistant provides high-quality, individualized resident care in collaboration with the nursing team. The role requires taking initiative while assisting with and maintaining resident care. The position is in the Bilz Subacute Department at DeMay Living Center in Newark, New York, and is part time, with 24 hours per week. The listed schedule is 6 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday, and every other weekend; the posting also labels the schedule as “Nights.”

The role serves residents across a diverse caseload, including ventilator care, dementia, long-term care, and short-term rehabilitation. The rehabilitation unit is connected to a hospital, supporting care transitions and experience with medically complex patients. The CNA follows resident care cards, provides personal care and assistance with daily activities, performs assigned procedures under appropriate instruction and supervision, observes and reports changes to the nurse, and supports residents’ independence, interests, and concerns. The CNA also collaborates with the care team, attends required in-services, and may float throughout the facility.

The position requires current New York State CNA certification and a minimum age of 18. A high school diploma or equivalent is required. Strong customer service and communication skills are preferred. The job has moderate clinical physical demands, including frequent movement, standing, walking, lifting 20–50 pounds, and exposure to clinical hazards.

Requirements

• Minimum age of 18.
• Currently certified in New York State as a Certified Nursing Assistant.
• High school diploma or equivalent (required).

Nice To Haves

• Strong customer service skills.
• Strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Read and follow each assigned resident’s care card for daily personal care needs, treatments, and therapies; seek clarification and direction from the nurse as needed.
• Offer suggestions when there may be a better way to meet a resident’s needs.
• Provide personal care, including bathing, toileting, feeding, transferring, and ambulating residents.
• Promote residents’ involvement and independence to the extent they are 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, directing 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, concerns, and memories.
• Assist with or perform procedures as outlined by policy and with proper instruction and supervision, including admissions, transfers, discharges, vital signs, specimen collection, colostomy bag changes, non-sterile dressing changes, handling soiled briefs, intake and output measurement and recording, care for residents on precautions, and care 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 condition 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 state-required number of in-service hours.
• Cooperate with, show courtesy to, and assist other team members.
• Float throughout the facility when necessary.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Strong benefits package.
• 100% paid educational opportunities and support for CNA-to-LPN-to-RN career advancement.
• Overtime pay at time and a half.
• Tuition and student loan assistance.
• Signing bonus of up to $2,250.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED