Resident Care Assistant

United Church Homes•Beavercreek, OH

About The Position

The Resident Care Assistant supports residents with personal care, daily living needs, meals, mobility, safety, and maintaining a comfortable, homelike environment. The role receives assignments and shift reports from supervisors and coworkers, monitors residents’ conditions, responds to call lights and emergencies, documents relevant events, and reports incidents or changes to the appropriate leader. The assistant also helps residents and families adjust to the community, maintains resident areas and supplies, and assists with transportation to activities. Special care or dementia care employees receive additional training in caring for and treating residents with dementia.

Requirements

Ability to communicate effectively with residents and nursing staff.
Ability to read, write, understand, and speak English.
Ability to work with elderly residents, families, and other health care staff members.
Ability to adhere to the terms and conditions in the United Church Homes Employee Handbook.
Proficiency operating a computer, the Internet, and basic office equipment.
High school diploma or GED preferred; not stated as required.
No prior experience necessary.

Nice To Haves

High school diploma or GED.

Responsibilities

Receive care assignments from a supervisor and exchange verbal reports with the prior and succeeding shifts about special events, changes in residents’ conditions, incidents, and accidents.
Check residents regularly, answer call lights promptly, address resident needs within the scope of ability, and report needs to a leader when appropriate.
Report resident and employee incidents to a leader and complete incident reports.
Maintain knowledge of residents’ needs, note significant changes in condition, take appropriate action, identify emergencies, and respond appropriately.
Document unusual occurrences and resident progress in medical charts; explain procedures to residents before providing care.
Welcome new residents and help them adjust to the community; support a comfortable, homelike environment and maintain positive relationships with residents, families, staff, and guests.
Observe residents’ safety needs, identify hazards, ensure residents are out of immediate danger, and report hazards to appropriate personnel.
Provide personal care, including nail, hair, oral hygiene, bathing, and dressing assistance, following Universal Precautions Protocols; encourage residents to do as much for themselves as possible and document increased assistance needs.
Prepare residents for bed rest when indicated and provide special care to residents in casts or traction, including monitoring comfort, skin color, and temperature.
Assist residents with physical needs, eating, transfers, repositioning, body positioning, and mobility in accordance with nursing policies and procedures; use supportive devices as needed.
Prepare residents for meals, escort them to the dining room when needed, check trays against diet cards, set and serve trays, assist with eating, collect trays, and offer substitutes for uneaten food.
Deliver between-meal nourishment and fresh drinking water, encourage or assist residents with eating and drinking, and document acceptance as appropriate.
Complete charge and inventory slips, monitor supplies, and use supplies and equipment properly without waste.
Straighten dresser tops and stands, label and care for personal care items, maintain cleanliness of resident units and designated bathing, treatment, supply, work, and linen areas, and sanitize bathtubs after each use.
Make and change beds; collect and bag soiled linen; place soiled clothing in the appropriate receptacle; store clean linen; manage personal laundry according to community policy; maintain linen carts; and distribute clean towels according to schedule.
Assist with transportation to and from activities and assist with or direct activities as required.
Perform other duties as assigned.