Certified Nursing Asst

Montgomery Place; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 20,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid vacation

Health insurance

401k match

Attendance bonus

Holiday bonus

Job summary

Priority Dispatch Corp. is seeking a compassionate Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) in Chicago to provide high-quality resident care on-site. The role involves bathing, grooming, hygiene assistance, and ensuring safety during transfers and daily activities.

Responsibilities include documenting activities, measuring vital signs, and reporting any changes to nursing staff. The position requires weekend and holiday availability and a caring, patient demeanor.

Qualifications

• CNA certification and state registration in good standing.
• Ability to communicate clearly with residents and staff.
• Basic proficiency with MS Office and company systems; learn quickly.
• Ability to work holidays, weekends, and be on call.

Responsibilities

• Assist residents with personal care (bathing, grooming, hygiene) and use of adaptive equipment.
• Explain procedures to residents before administering them.
• Keep residents dry and changes to avoid wrinkles.
• Make beds and manage linen and inventory daily.
• Assist in transfers, ambulation, and positioning to support safety.
• Record vital signs and measurements as instructed (height, weight, temperatures, BP, etc.).
• Report changes in residents’ conditions to the nurse promptly.
• Adhere to infection control guidelines and HIPAA requirements.

Skills

Communication skills

On-call flexibility

Education

CNA Certification

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Job Details

Job Location: 5550 S Shore Dr - Chicago, IL 60637

Salary Range: $18.00 - $18.00 Hourly

Position Summary

The CNA is responsible for providing quality care to residents both physically and emotionally to enhance quality of life.

Benefits may include depending on fulltime/part-time status:

• Paid vacation and paid sick leave
• Access to health insurance
• 401k with employer match
• Attendance bonuses
• Holiday bonus

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Overall responsibilities

• Assist residents with personal care including bathing, grooming, hygiene and placement of adaptive equipment
• Explain procedures to residents before administering
• Keep residents dry (changes gown, clothing, linen, etc., when it becomes wet or soiled)
• Change bed linens and keep linens tight to avoid wrinkles from forming under residents
• Make beds (occupied and unoccupied)
• Handle linens according to infection control guidelines
• Assist residents with bowel and bladder functions
• Prepare residents for transporting to appointments, activities and social programs
• Assist with lifting, positioning and transporting residents into and out of beds, chairs, bathtubs, wheelchairs, lifts, etc., in keeping with specific resident safety needs
• Assist residents in ambulation with or without self-help devices as instructed
• Perform restorative and rehabilitative procedures as instructed
• Accurately measure and record heights and weights
• Accurately measure and record temperatures, pulses, respirations and blood pressures (TPRs and B/P) as instructed
• Empty urinary drainage bags and record amount in record; report any irregularities to nurse
• Ensure call lights are within reach of residents and answer call lights promptly
• Ensure that residents who are unable to call for help are checked frequently
• Report all changes in residents’ condition to supervisor as soon as practical
• Ensure that residents’ personal care needs are being met in accordance with residents’ wishes
• Complete appropriate charge and inventory slips and monitor supply inventory daily
• Clean instruments and equipment and return to proper area after use
• Straighten dresser tops and stands
• Maintain cleanliness of resident units, central bathing area, treatment and supply rooms, workrooms and linen closets; clean bedpans, urinals and commodes; wash basins and emesis basins; sanitize bath tub after each resident’s use; clean floors if resident is incontinent; wipe spilled foods and liquids
• Provide post-mortem care as instructed
• Turn bedfast residents as instructed
• Provide Range of Motion exercises
• Provide daily indwelling catheter care
• Provides perineal care

Food Service Responsibilities

• Assure that residents are positioned appropriately for meals
• Assure that appropriate utensils are within reach of residents
• Serve food trays and assist with feeding as indicated
• Keep residents’ water pitchers clean and filled with fresh water (on each shift) and within easy reach of residents
• Deliver and document all a.m., p.m., and bedtime snacks and supplements
• Provide hydration to all residents according to center policy

Documentation

• Accurately record all entries in the AOD system, I’s and O’s, Quality of Life and food acceptance

Admission, Transfer and Discharge Responsibilities

• Make residents comfortable and orient as necessary
• Inventory and store residents’ personal possessions as instructed
• Assist with loading/unloading residents from vehicles as necessary
• Establish and maintain good public relations with residents, families and other center guests and show empathy toward residents

Care Plan Responsibilities

• Participate in care conference as indicated and follow individual resident care plans

Administrative Responsibilities

• Report observations concerning structural, equipment, and furniture defects and malfunctioning to appropriate personnel and record in work order binder
• Utilize supplies and equipment properly and without waste
• Perform any miscellaneous work assignments as may be required

General Responsibilities

• Adhere to the policies and procedures of the business with the highest practical standards
• Participate in and maintain current on all training and education required by the company
• Communicate effectively with all members of the staff and business partners
• Provide feedback to others for continuous quality improvement of the entire organization
• Openly accept feedback from others for the continuous quality improvement of the entire organization
• Escalate issues when there is appearance that business standards of quality are not present
• Comply with all rules and regulations of the organization, including HIPAA and safety
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications Education and Experience

Required

• Certified Nursing Certificate (CNA); must be registered with the state in good standing
• Ability to communicate with residents and staff
• Basic proficiency with MS Office and ability to learn company systems
• Ability to work holiday and weekend hours as well as to be on call

Preferred

• Previous nursing assistant experience in a similar environment

Essential Qualifications

• Approachable, customer service orientation
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Think and act calmly and logically to meet unusual occurrences of the job without being thrown off stride
• Detail orientation
• Must have ability to perform duties accurately and rapidly under tight deadlines with minimal supervision.
• Must be able to take direction and fulfill task requirements

Language Skills

• Ability to read, write and speak English proficiently

Physical Demands

• Specific vision requirements include the ability to see at close range, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear
• Frequently required to stand, walk, sit, bend, kneel, stoop, crouch, crawl and climb
• Use hands to feel, and reach with hand and arms
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds (may lift larger amounts of weight occasionally due to helping with transferring residents to beds or wheelchairs)
• Fine hand manipulation (keyboarding)

Work Environment

• Entire building, resident rooms and common areas
• May escort residents to outside appointments
• Exposure to disagreeable conditions including odors, infection, illness and physical contact from disruptive residents
• The noise level in the work environment is usually low

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.