Hospitality Aide

Columbine Manor Care Center•Salida, CO

About The Position

The Hospitality Aide performs non-direct-care activities, including passing ice, making beds, and delivering meal trays to residents who are able to feed themselves. Work is performed under the direct supervision of a licensed nurse to help ensure resident safety and maintain each resident’s highest practicable physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and Life Care standards. The role also supports residents with everyday needs, maintains common and utility areas, responds to call lights, and works with an interdisciplinary team. The position requires dependable attendance, sound judgment, professional conduct, confidentiality, and the ability to perform the listed physical tasks.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent.
CPR certification upon hire or obtained during orientation; certification must remain current during employment.
Ability to make independent decisions when circumstances warrant.
Knowledge of practices and procedures, and of laws, regulations, and guidelines governing functions in a post-acute care facility.
Ability to perform proficiently in competency areas including patient rights, safety, and sanitation.
Ability to maintain professional working relationships and confidentiality of proprietary or confidential information.
Ability to follow company policies, including harassment and compliance procedures, and complete mandatory compliance training.
Ability to concentrate and use reasoning skills and good judgment.
Ability to sit, stand, bend, lift, push, pull, stoop, walk, reach, and move intermittently during working hours.
Ability to read, write, speak, and understand English.
Ability to lift 35 pounds from floor to waist, lift 35 pounds from waist to shoulder, lift and carry 35 pounds, and push or pull 35 pounds.

Responsibilities

Pass ice and water, distribute snacks to residents, and clean nourishment refrigerators and carts.
Assist with passing and retrieving meal trays for residents who are able to feed themselves and clean dining areas after meals.
Make unoccupied beds and change bed linens.
Organize residents’ drawers and closets and label personal items.
Organize shower rooms, clean utility rooms, and ensure adequate inventory.
Provide one-to-one attention to cognitively impaired residents.
Deliver residents’ mail.
Transport wheelchair-bound residents to and from rooms.
Respond promptly to call lights.
Assist in the evacuation of patients.
Maintain dependable, regular attendance.
Communicate and function productively on an interdisciplinary team.
Follow applicable laws, regulations, facility practices, and department and company policies and procedures.
Maintain patient safety, sanitation, confidentiality, professional working relationships, and compliance with Life Care’s Code of Conduct.