Full Time CNA 4:45PM-5:15AM

Homestead Brand•Lancaster, PA

7d•Onsite

About The Position

Homestead Village, a non-profit, CARF-CCAC accredited Life Plan Community, is seeking a highly skilled, enthusiastic, and passionate Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) to join their compassionate community. The role involves enhancing independence and dignity for all residents within The Apostle Center for Care, a 56-bed Skilled Nursing Facility. The position requires maintaining an organized, safe, and comfortable environment, utilizing Point of Care and care plans for resident care, and adhering to instructions from licensed nursing staff. Responsibilities include assisting residents with daily living activities, transferring, positioning, monitoring vital signs, recording care provided, assisting with dining and intake/output, observing and reporting resident changes, and interacting respectfully with residents, families, and staff. The CNA will also participate in resident activities and perform laundry and cleaning duties as assigned.

Requirements

Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) license
Skilled in providing resident care
Ability to work independently or as a team
Proficiency in transferring and positioning residents using assistive devices
Ability to monitor and record vital signs
Good observational skills to report changes in resident condition
Tactful, respectful, and cooperative communication skills

Nice To Haves

Experience in a Life Plan Community
Experience in a Skilled Nursing Facility

Responsibilities

Maintain an organized, neat, safe, secure, comfortable environment for every resident.
Utilize Point of Care and care plan to provide resident care.
Adhere to instructions issued by the Licensed Nursing Staff/Household Coordinator and perform duties in accordance with established Homestead Village routines, methods and techniques, and in compliance with Homestead Villages’ policies, procedures, standards and practices.
Work alone or as a team giving total care or assist residents with bathing and hygiene.
Ambulatory transferring, positioning by using assistive devices such as a walker, wheelchair, mechanical lifts, gait belt or assigned therapeutic devices as directed on resident care plan.
Answer call “bells” promptly regardless of assignment.
Collect data such as temperatures, pulses, respirations, blood pressures and record onto data sheet daily.
Record care as provide during the shift such as ADL’s and ambulation.
Assist residents with dining needs (this includes assisting in country kitchen), maintain intake and output as requested, weigh resident as instructed.
Observe residents and reports physical and/or behavioral changes immediately to charge nurse.
Interact tactfully, respectfully and cooperatively with residents, families, visitors and the entire staff throughout the organization.
Perform all resident care as assigned and according to Homestead Village nursing department’s policies and procedures.
Participate in activities for residents as directed.
Wash residents’ personal laundry as needed.
Perform cleaning and all other duties as assigned