CNA Training Track (Support Aide)

Elderwood•Town of Johnsburg, NY

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Launch Your Healthcare Career at Elderwood at North Creek. This is a Paid CNA Training Program with a Guaranteed Employment Pathway. Elderwood at North Creek is hiring CNA Trainees to join their team and complete a structured, 3-week Certified Nursing Assistant Training Program led by a professional nurse educator. This is hands-on, in-person learning inside a real clinical environment where you’ll build confidence, skill, and purpose. Get paid to launch your CNA career. Upon successful completion, you will transition into a Full-Time or Part-Time CNA role at Elderwood at North Creek. You will gain paid training, a direct employment pathway, real clinical experience, state certification preparation, mentorship from experienced nursing leaders, and a career with growth potential in long-term and post-acute care.

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
Participants must have access to a personal device (laptop, tablet, or smartphone) for supplemental coursework.
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.
Must be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language at an intermediate or more advanced level.

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.