CNA Training Track (Support Aide)

Elderwood•Town of Johnsburg, NY

31d•Onsite

About The Position

Elderwood at North Creek is offering a paid CNA Training Program with a guaranteed employment pathway. This is a 3-week, in-person training program led by a professional nurse educator, focusing on hands-on learning within a clinical environment. Upon successful completion, participants will transition into a Full-Time or Part-Time CNA role. The program aims to build confidence, skill, and purpose in launching a healthcare career.

Requirements

Reliable and committed to completing a structured 3-week onsite program
Compassionate and motivated to care for older adults
Professional, punctual, and team-oriented
Ready to build a long-term healthcare career
Pass the Prometric Reading Assessment (80% or higher)
Achieve 90% or higher on quizzes and final exam
Attend all classroom, lab, and clinical days
Provide required health documentation (MMR, Flu, etc.)
Maintain professionalism and reliability throughout training
Have dependable transportation
Sixteen (16) years of age required; high school diploma or equivalent required.
Employment Certificate/Permit required for 16-17 years of age.
No findings or convictions of resident abuse, mistreatment and misappropriation of property through any current or previous licensing agency.
Ability to read, write, speak, and understand the English language at an intermediate or more advanced level.

Nice To Haves

Participants must have access to a personal device (laptop, tablet, or smartphone) for supplemental coursework.

Responsibilities

Transport residents or accompanies ambulatory residents as assigned to various locations in the building including the dining room, activity program areas, therapy or treatment areas.
Make unoccupied resident beds, as assigned.
Assist in the Dining Room with food service to residents, under the direction of licensed therapy staff; duties include passing trays, cutting meat, opening cartons or other containers.
Distribute supplemental nourishments to residents who do not need to be fed, as directed.
Conduct informal activities on the nursing unit when time permits, as directed.
Supply fresh water in resident's rooms, as directed.
Prepare bed and bedwear of resident's at hour of sleep, as assigned.
Help keep general areas of the assigned nursing unit neat and orderly, as directed.
Clean resident's equipment (wheelchair/geri chair, bed, etc.), as assigned.
Keep the rooms of residents orderly, as assigned.
Notify therapist of any unusual incidents regarding residents.