Medication Technician

SR COMPANIES LLC • Ponca City, OK

7d • $16 - $16 • Onsite

About The Position

The Medication Technician is responsible for enhancing and improving the SRIM experience through Heartful Care for residents and their families. The role supervises residents’ self-administration of medication and supports residents with daily living needs, meals, activities, housekeeping, and laundry while encouraging independence. The Medication Technician helps maintain a clean, safe, orderly, and dignified community environment; observes and reports changes in residents’ health and emotional well-being; and responds courteously to requests for assistance. The role also follows community policies and emergency procedures, protects resident privacy, supports and mentors associates, and performs other reasonable duties as assigned.

The position requires a high school diploma or GED, or one to two years of related experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. A Medicine Technician (Med-Tech) certification is required. The employee must be able to perform the essential duties with or without reasonable accommodation. Work may occasionally involve exposure to blood-borne pathogens, and the role has regular standing and walking requirements and occasional lifting or moving of up to 50 pounds.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED, or one to two years of related experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Medicine Technician (Med-Tech) certification.
• Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence and speak effectively before groups of customers or employees.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide, including performing calculations with money and measurements of weight, volume, and distance.
• Ability to apply common-sense understanding to written, oral, or diagrammed instructions and solve problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Knowledge of word-processing software and electronic medical records.
• Ability to stand, walk, use hands, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear regularly; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and taste or smell frequently; sit and climb or balance occasionally; and occasionally lift or move up to 50 pounds.
• Ability to perform the essential functions of the job, with reasonable accommodation where applicable.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate and promote SRIM’s Golden Rule core value in interactions with residents, families, visitors, and associates.
• Supervise residents’ self-administration of medication.
• Assist residents with activities of daily living, meal service, light housekeeping, and laundry while encouraging independence.
• Interact frequently with residents with empathy, kindness, compassion, and respect.
• Observe residents and report changes in their health and emotional well-being to a supervisor daily.
• Serve and assist residents in the dining room at breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
• Initiate and participate in leisure activities listed on the activity calendar.
• Maintain a clean, safe, and orderly environment and perform general housekeeping according to established cleaning schedules.
• Respond promptly and courteously to requests for assistance, including calls and requests from residents’ families and visitors.
• Communicate in a language each resident can understand.
• Ensure residents or responsible parties sign residents out when they leave the community.
• Maintain a safe and secure work environment, use safe working habits and body mechanics, and report safety hazards promptly.
• Assist associates when requested or required and work cooperatively with associates and management.
• Follow established policies and procedures during emergencies; serve as essential personnel and report to or remain at the community until released by a supervisor during emergencies or inclement weather.
• Comply with attendance and call-off policies, attend trainings and mandatory meetings, and follow the dress code.
• Refer family and visitor inquiries about resident care to the immediate supervisor and comply with HIPAA regulations.
• Assist with training and mentoring new employees.
• Take initiative, seek additional information, offer suggestions, and willingly take on special projects or duties outside regular assignments.
• Perform housekeeping and laundry duties to keep the community clean, orderly, and sanitary.
• Perform other reasonable duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: High school or GED