Personal Care Attendant (PCA) Caregiver - NOC Shift

Prestige Care•Bend, OR

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Personal Care Attendant provides direct resident care and completes assignments as a universal worker. The role helps maintain a positive physical and psychosocial environment for residents while upholding Prestige’s core values of respect, integrity, commitment, and trust. The position is at Prestige Senior Living – High Desert, an assisted living community in Bend, Oregon, and is identified as a NOC shift role. The caregiver promotes resident dignity, independence, and choice; observes and reports changes in residents’ physical or mental conditions; assists with activities of daily living and related care; and accurately documents care and observations. The position also supports meals, activities, housekeeping, laundry, resident transitions, safety practices, and emergency response. The role requires satisfactory performance of essential duties, with or without reasonable accommodation, and completion of required competency evaluations and training.

Requirements

Must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily, with or without reasonable accommodation.
Must complete and pass a competency evaluation within 120 days of employment.
Must complete state-required training, including Revised Fundamentals of Care, Dementia Care, First Aid, CPR, and HIV training, unless appropriate documentation of prior training is provided.
Current First Aid and CPR certification.
Food Handler’s permit if required by the state.

Nice To Haves

High school diploma or GED with one or more years of personal care experience with older adults preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide direct resident care while promoting resident dignity, independence, and choice.
Regularly observe residents’ physical and mental conditions and report changes to the Health Services Director, Expressions Coordinator, or Executive Director.
Assist with or perform activities of daily living, take vital signs and weights, and document care and observations on communication logs and incident reports.
Immediately report and document incidents and accidents.
Assist residents to and from the dining room and activities.
Provide First Aid and initiate emergency response procedures as required.
Greet residents, visitors, and staff courteously and answer phones when assigned.
Follow and support community fire safety and infection control practices; promptly report unsafe conditions or equipment to the immediate supervisor.
Serve meals, assist residents at mealtime, deliver resident trays, and assist with dining room and kitchen cleanup and maintenance.
Assist with tours, move-ins, move-outs, and transfers; coordinate personal care services with coworkers, assist with lifting, and respond promptly to assistance pages.
Assist with apartment housekeeping services and residents’ laundry.
Attend and participate in training, in-services, and staff meetings.
Perform other related duties as assigned.