Compassionate Resident Care Aide

PACS Group; Mount Pleasant (TX); On-site; USD 19,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

PACS Group is seeking a dedicated care assistant to provide routine daily care and services to residents in accordance with care plans. You will assist with meals, mobility, room readiness, and personal care while maintaining a warm, respectful environment and strict confidentiality.

You will report changes to supervisors and document activities accurately, supporting a safe, patient-centered facility in Mount Pleasant, Texas.

Responsibilities

• Use PCC to ensure correct resident information when assisting with ALDS, meals, etc.
• Report all changes in the residents’ condition to the Health and Wellness Director as soon as practical.
• Record all entries on notes, SPAs, and incident reports, etc., in an informative, descriptive manner.
• Report on all accidents and incidents you observe on the shift that they occur to the Executive Director and Health and Wellness Director.
• Agree not to disclose resident’s protected health information and promptly report suspected or known violations of such disclosure to the Executive Director.
• Report any known or suspected unauthorized attempt to access community’s information system.
• Perform only those care tasks that you have been trained to do.
• Ensure that the resident’s room is ready for the resident (i.e., bed made).
• Greet residents and escort them to their room.
• Introduce residents to his/her roommate, if any, and other residents and personnel as appropriate.
• Make residents comfortable.
• Inventory and mark the residents’ personal possessions as instructed.
• Store resident’s clothing.
• Assist residents with packing their personal possessions when they are being transferred to a new room, or when being discharged.
• Transport residents to new rooms or to the receiving area.
• Assist with loading/unloading residents’ to/from vehicles as necessary.
• Create and maintain an atmosphere of warmth, personal interest and positive emphasis, as well as a calm environment throughout the unit and shift.
• Meet with your shift’s nursing personnel, on a regularly scheduled basis, to assist in identifying and correcting problem areas, and/or the improvement of services.
• Report all complaints and grievances made by residents.
• Participate in and receive the nursing report as instructed.
• Follow established policies concerning exposure to blood/body fluids.
• Make beds as instructed.
• Put extra covers on beds as requested.
• Ensure that residents who are unable to call for help are checked frequently.
• Answer resident calls promptly.
• Check residents routinely to ensure that their personal care needs are being met.
• Assist residents with identifying food arrangements (i.e., informing residents with sight problem of foods that are on his/her tray, where it is located, if it is hot/cold, etc.).
• Keep residents’ water pitchers clean and filled with fresh water (on each shift), and within easy reach of the resident.
• Perform after meal care (i.e., remove trays, clean resident’s hands, face, clothing, etc.).
• Receive the nursing report upon reporting for duty.
• Perform all assigned tasks in accordance with our established policies and procedures, and as instructed by your supervisors.
• Follow work assignments, and/or work schedules in completing and performing your assigned tasks.
• Cooperate with inter-departmental personnel, as well as other facility personnel, to ensure that services can be adequately maintained to meet the needs of the residents.
• Notify the facility when you will be late or absent from work.
• Report occupational exposures to blood, body fluids, infectious materials, and hazardous chemicals in accordance with the facility’s policies and procedures governing accidents and incidents.
• Assist residents with daily functions (dental and mouth care, bath functions, combing of hair, dressing and undressing as necessary).
• Keep residents dry (change gown, clothing and linens, when it becomes wet or soiled).
• Assist residents in preparing for medical tests (i.e., lab work, x-ray, therapy, dental, etc.).
• Assist with lifting, turning, moving, positioning, and transporting residents into and out of beds, chairs, bathtubs, wheelchairs, lifts, etc.
• Perform restorative and rehabilitative procedures as instructed.
• Assist in preparing the resident for a physical examination.
• Check each resident routinely to ensure that his/her personal care needs are being met in accordance with his/her wishes.
• Observe and report the presence of pressure areas and skin breakdowns to prevent decubitus ulcers (bedsores).
• Report injuries of an unknown source, including skin tears.
• Observe disoriented and comatose residents.
• Record and report data as instructed Perform special treatments as instructed.
• Immediately notify the Nurse of any resident leaving/missing from the facility.
• Use only the equipment you have been trained to use.
• Report defective equipment to the Nurse Supervisor/Charge Nurse.
• Maintain the confidentiality of all resident care information including protected health information.
• Report known or suspected incidents of unauthorized disclosure of such information.
• Report all allegations of resident abuse and/or misappropriation of resident property.
• Honor the resident’s refusal of treatment request.
• Report such requests to your supervisor.
• Give back rubs as instructed.
• Assist residents with dressing\undressing as necessary.
• Assist residents with hair care functions (i.e., combing, brushing, shampooing, etc.).
• Assist residents with nail care (i.e., clipping, trimming, and cleaning the finger/toenails).
• Shave male residents.
• Keep hair on female residents clean (i.e., facial hair, under arms, on legs, etc.) as instructed.
• Keep residents dry (i.e., changing gown, clothing, linen, etc., when it becomes wet or soiled).
• Make beds (occupied and unoccupied) Put extra covers on beds as requested.
• Position bedrest residents in correct residents in correct and comfortable positions.
• Assist residents with bowel and bladder functions (i.e., take to bathroom, offer bed pan, urinal, portable commode, etc.).
• Maintain intake and output records as instructed.
• Keep incontinent residents clean and dry.
• Check and report bowl movements and character of stool as instructed.
• Perform restorative and rehabilitative procedures as instructed.
• Utilize protective and adaptive equipment as instructed.
• Provide eye and ear care (i.e., hearing aide installation, cleaning eyeglasses/hearing aids, etc.) as instructed.
• Assist in preparing the resident for physical examination.
• Weigh and measure residents as instructed.
• Measure and record temperatures. Pulse, and respirations (TPRs), as instructed.
• Ensure that residents who are unable to call for help are checked frequently.
• Check each resident routine... (continuing pages)

Job description

PACS Group is seeking a dedicated care assistant to provide routine daily care and services to residents in accordance with care plans. You will assist with meals, mobility, room readiness, and personal care while maintaining a warm, respectful environment and strict confidentiality.

You will report changes to supervisors and document activities accurately, supporting a safe, patient-centered facility in Mount Pleasant, Texas.