SENIOR CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT -ACTV - 50950012

State of Florida • ST AUGUSTINE, FL

4d • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Certified Nursing Assistant (SCNA) / Activities position ensures residents’ activities of daily living, daily assignments, and an ongoing activities program are completed during the shift in accordance with comprehensive assessments, while identifying and resolving residents’ needs. The position provides direct nursing care to residents of the Florida State Veterans’ Nursing Home under the supervision of a licensed nurse and in accordance with facility policies and procedures. It reports directly to the Activities Director (Therapy Aide Supervisor).

The incumbent assists with developing and implementing activities that improve or maintain residents’ physical, mental, and social well-being. The work schedule may include weekends, evenings, and holidays. Duties include maintaining residents’ hygiene, nourishment, and appointments; contributing to individualized activity and care plans; documenting services and resident responses; and helping maintain activity spaces, supplies, and resident safety. The incumbent may perform the Activities Director’s duties when that person is unavailable.

The role also involves providing or assisting with personal care and mobility, performing restorative and simple nursing measures, responding promptly to resident requests and call lights, observing and reporting concerns, and completing required records. The employee participates in interdisciplinary and facility meetings, attends assigned in-service classes, maintains confidentiality, follows residents’ rights and facility safety and infection-control procedures, and performs other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Current licensure as a Certified Nursing Assistant in the state of Florida.
• Willingness and ability to work some weekends and holidays as required; the position may also include evenings.
• 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.
• Employment history and education 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 BLS CPR card.
• High school diploma or GED equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Ensure residents’ activities of daily living, daily assignments, and ongoing activities are completed during the shift in accordance with comprehensive assessments.
• Assist with developing and implementing activities programs that support residents’ physical, mental, and social well-being.
• Assist in developing an activity 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 activity spaces, request program equipment and supplies, and help ensure resident safety during individual and group activities.
• Provide or assist with residents’ oral hygiene, bathing, dressing, grooming, hair and nail care, shaving, toileting, meals, nourishment, transportation to meal service areas, and mobility.
• Maintain resident hygiene, nourishment, and appointments, and escort residents to appointments when required.
• Observe residents, identify concerns or needs, and report them to a supervisor.
• Perform restorative nursing measures and document care, treatment, and resident response in nursing assistant notes.
• Perform simple nursing measures, including applying splints and positioning devices, making beds, changing linens, taking vital signs and weights, and recording intake and output.
• Review care plans, provide nursing care as outlined, and participate in developing individualized care plans for assigned residents.
• Respond to residents’ requests and needs, ensure call lights are within reach, and answer call lights promptly.
• Follow facility safety, infection-control, nursing-service, and residents’ rights policies and procedures.
• Complete required documentation and assignments accurately, completely, and on time; accept assigned duties cooperatively.
• Work cooperatively with residents, residents’ representatives, facility staff, physicians, consultants, and ancillary service providers, and maintain resident confidentiality.
• Attend assigned in-service programs and participate in interdisciplinary and other facility meetings as assigned.
• Perform other related duties 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 for 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