Medication Technician

American Senior Communities; Fort Collins (CO); On-site; USD 30,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Aspens at Fort Collins is seeking a compassionate caregiver to support residents and families by assisting with daily living activities, meals, and ensuring a safe, respectful environment.

Role includes helping with ADLs, housekeeping, dining service, and participating in activity calendars, while maintaining empathy and clear communication with residents and staff.

Qualifications

• Ability to interact with residents with empathy and respect.
• Ability to follow care plans and safety protocols.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates and promotes the Golden Rule in daily resident interactions.
• Supervises self-administration of medication as directed.
• Assists with ADLs, meal service, light housekeeping, and laundry; promotes resident independence.
• Communicates with residents at all levels of care with empathy and kindness.
• Notices and reports changes in residents' health and emotional well-being to supervisor.
• Assists in dining room at breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily.
• Initiates and participates in activities per the activity calendar.
• Maintains a clean, safe, and orderly environment for residents.
• Performs daily housekeeping tasks following schedules.
• Ensures a dignified and caring atmosphere for residents, families, and staff.
• Responds promptly to residents' requests and communicates in understandable language.
• Ensures residents sign out when leaving the community.
• Maintains a safe working environment to prevent harm and falls.
• Practices good body mechanics and safe working habits.
• Observes and reports safety hazards to supervisor.

Job description

Aspens at Fort Collins - Fort Collins, CO 80528

Overview

Salary Range

$22.00 - $23.00 Hourly

Description

Summary: Responsible for enhancing and improving the SRIM experience specifically in the Heartful Care for our residents and their families by performing the following duties.

Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

1. Demonstrates and promotes SRIM's core value of the Golden Rule, treating others, including residents, families, visitors, and associates, in the same way we would like to be treated.*
2. Supervises self-administration of medication for residents.*
3. Assists with ADL's, meal service, light housekeeping, and laundry while encouraging resident independence.*
4. Speaks to/interacts with residents at all levels of care constantly, while showing empathy, kindness, compassion, and respect.*
5. Observes and reports to supervisor daily and all changes in the resident’s health and emotional well‑being. *
6. Serves and assist residents in the dining room at breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily.*
7. Responsible for initiating and participating in leisure activities provided to residents as described in the activity calendar.*
8. Maintains a clean, safe, and orderly environment for all residents at all times.*
9. Performs daily general housekeeping duties following established cleaning schedules.*
10. Ensures and supports a dignified and caring atmosphere for residents, families, visitors, and associates.*
11. Always responds promptly and courteously to resident's requests for assistance including phone calls and requests from family members and visitors.*
12. Communicates effectively in a language that each resident is capable of understanding.*
13. Ensures residents and/or responsible parties sign residents out when they leave the community.*
14. Maintains a safe and secure working environment free of objects/situations that could cause harm and/or falls to residents, families, visitors, and associates.*
15. Practices good body mechanics and safe working habits at all times.*
16. Observes and reports safety hazards immediately to supervisor.*