CNA - Seneca Hill Manor, PT 10P-6A

$34,653 - $41,434/Yr

Oswego Health - Oswego, NY

Full-time - Entry Level

Oswego, NY

1,001-5,000 employees

Nursing and Residential Care Facilities

About the position

The Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) position at Seneca Hill Manor involves assisting residents with their Activities of Daily Living (ADL) under the supervision of licensed personnel. The role focuses on providing comprehensive personal care, ensuring residents' comfort and safety, and maintaining compliance with regulatory guidelines. The CNA is responsible for monitoring residents' physical and emotional well-being and reporting any changes to the appropriate staff.

Responsibilities

• Provides personal resident care and treatment according to the specified comprehensive care profile and updates file as needed.
• Assists residents with personal hygiene including bathing, shampooing, conditioning, shaving, grooming, dressing, mouth and denture care, nail care, and hair care.
• Assists with preventative skin care, wound care, ostomy, ready to use enemas and other specified treatments as needed.
• Ensures that residents are properly and comfortably clothed at all times.
• Assists residents to and from bathrooms, aids in use of urinals and bedpans, keeps incontinent residents clean, dry, and odor-free.
• Assists residents with meals and meal care, and monitors and records resident intake.
• Provides mobility assistance to residents including transporting, positioning, lifting, turning and/or moving.
• Performs Intake/outtake care, catheter care, vital signs, ROM, and post mortem care.
• Ensures the care of resident's personal laundry and belongings.
• Cleans and maintains safe and orderly resident rooms, nursing equipment and nursing units.
• Observes residents' physical condition, attitude, reaction, appetite, and behaviors and reports changes or unusual findings to supervisor.
• Provides physical and emotional comfort and safety of all residents.
• Practices correct and safe techniques in the use of equipment such as beds, siderails, scales, hover lifts, and safety devices.
• Completes documentation and recording of entries on required flow sheets, consumption records, and other worksheets.
• Completes resident/unit rounds at the beginning and end of each shift and provides thorough end of shift report to supervisor or charge nurse.
• Immediately reports any change or deviation in resident status to team leader or supervisor.
• Ensures the confidentiality of all residents and information obtained.
• Assists in quality assurance as directed by nurse manager.

Requirements

• Must be currently registered in New York State as a Certified Nurses Aide.
• High school graduate preferred.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrates autonomy, organization, assertiveness, flexibility and cooperation in performing job responsibilities.
• Must be able to provide physical and emotional care to elderly and/or disabled individuals.
• Demonstrated ability of conflict resolution and problem solving.
• Knowledge of the aging process as it relates to health care.
• Comprehension of resident rights and abuse reporting regulations.
• Knowledge of basic safety techniques as it relates to CNA role.

Benefits

• Up to $5000 Sign on Bonus
• Pay Range: $16.66-$19.92/hour + 25% Shift Differential