SENIOR CERTIFIED NURSING ASST-ACTIVITIES

State of Florida • DAYTONA BEACH, FL

2d • $37,421 • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Certified Nursing Assistant / Activities position is with the Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs at the Emory L. Bennett State Veterans’ Nursing Home in Daytona Beach, Volusia County. The incumbent is assigned primarily to Activities and is also expected to provide nursing assistance on a resident unit when needed. The role supports residents’ activities of daily living and an ongoing activities program designed to maintain or improve residents’ physical, mental, and social well-being. The schedule may include weekends, evenings, and holidays.

The incumbent assists with resident activity plans and program implementation, interviews new residents, enters resident data, and documents plans and care in residents’ medical records. The position may perform the Activities Director’s duties when that person is unavailable. Nursing assistance includes personal care, mobility and meal support, restorative measures, simple nursing procedures, observation and reporting, and responding to residents’ needs. The employee follows care plans, facility policies, safety and infection-control procedures, and residents’ rights requirements; participates in interdisciplinary and facility meetings; and attends assigned in-service programs.

The position reports directly to the Activities Director. The annual starting salary is $37,420.76, paid biweekly. The posting identifies the role as Career Service and notes that other vacant positions on different shifts may be filled from the advertisement within six months of its closing date.

Requirements

• Current Florida Certified Nursing Assistant license.
• Willingness and ability to work some weekends, evenings, and holidays.
• Willingness and ability to drive a 15-passenger facility van.
• Valid Florida driver’s license.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Good computer skills.
• Successful completion of the due diligence process, including a Level II background check and drug test.
• Education and employment history must be verifiable; claimed credentials must be attached to the application.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a long-term care environment with a geriatric population in an activities department.
• Current CPR card.
• High school diploma or GED.

Responsibilities

• Ensure residents’ activities of daily living, daily assignments, and ongoing activities are completed during the shift in accordance with comprehensive assessments, identifying and resolving needs.
• Assist with developing and implementing activities that improve or maintain residents’ physical, mental, and social well-being.
• Assist with developing an activities plan for each resident through the interdisciplinary team process and document the plan in the resident’s medical record.
• Conduct initial interviews with new residents and enter resident data into the medical record.
• Perform the Activities Director’s duties when the Activities Director is unavailable.
• Maintain the activity space, request program equipment and supplies, and ensure resident safety during individual and group activities.
• Provide nursing assistance with oral hygiene, bathing, dressing, grooming, hair and nail care, shaving, toileting, meals and nourishment, transportation to meal service areas, and mobility.
• Observe residents, identify concerns or needs, and report them to a supervisor.
• Escort residents to appointments when required.
• Complete assigned work timely, completely, and accurately, and accept duties cooperatively.
• Perform restorative nursing measures and simple nursing measures, including applying splints and positioning devices, making beds, changing linens, taking vital signs and weights, and recording intake and output.
• Document care and treatment provided and residents’ responses or lack of responses in nursing assistant notes; complete required documentation.
• Follow performance standards, nursing service policies and procedures, resident care plans, facility safety and infection-control procedures, and Residents’ Rights policies.
• Participate in developing individualized plans of care for assigned residents and in interdisciplinary team and other facility meetings as assigned.
• Respond to residents’ requests and needs, ensure call lights are within reach, and answer call lights promptly.
• Work cooperatively with residents, residents’ representatives, facility staff, physicians, consultants, and ancillary service providers.
• Maintain confidentiality of residents.
• Attend assigned in-service programs and complete assignments.
• Perform other related duties as assigned in an effective, timely, and professional manner.

Benefits

• Excellent retirement package and optional deferred compensation plan.
• Health, vision, dental, disability, and other supplemental insurance available at reasonable premium rates.
• Paid vacation and sick leave.
• Nine paid holidays and a personal day.
• Tuition waivers at State Universities and Community Colleges, up to 6 credits per semester.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed