Paid CNA Training Track - Start as Support Aide

Elderwood Administrative Services; Town of Cheektowaga (NY); On-site; USD 22,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid training

On-the-job training

Job summary

Elderwood Administrative Services in Cheektowaga, NY invites applicants to join a CNA Training Track as a Support Aide. The program runs three weeks, with paid training and progression to CNA after completion. Trainees are paid during training and may be slotted to shifts while in the program.

Benefits include paid CNA certification test prep and onboarding requirements, with on-site responsibilities to support residents across dining, mobility, and routine care as part of the training track.

Qualifications

• Sixteen (16) years of age required; high school diploma or equivalent required.
• Employment Certificate/Permit required for 16-17 years of age.
• No findings or convictions of resident abuse, mistreatment and misappropriation of property through any current or previous licensing agency.

Responsibilities

• Transport residents or accompanies ambulatory residents to various locations in the building.
• Make unoccupied resident beds, as assigned.
• Assist in the Dining Room with food service to residents, under the direction of licensed therapy staff; duties include passing trays, cutting meat, opening cartons or other containers.
• Distribute supplemental nourishments to residents who do not need to be fed, as directed.
• Conduct informal activities on the nursing unit when time permits, as directed.
• Supply fresh water in resident's rooms, as directed.
• Prepare bed and bedwear of resident's at hour of sleep, as assigned.
• Help keep general areas of the assigned nursing unit neat and orderly, as directed.
• Clean resident's equipment (wheelchair/geri chair, bed, etc.), as assigned.
• Keep the rooms of residents orderly, as assigned.
• Notify therapist of any unusual incidents regarding residents.

Skills

English language proficiency

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

Elderwood Administrative Services in Cheektowaga, NY invites applicants to join a CNA Training Track as a Support Aide. The program runs three weeks, with paid training and progression to CNA after completion. Trainees are paid during training and may be slotted to shifts while in the program.

Benefits include paid CNA certification test prep and onboarding requirements, with on-site responsibilities to support residents across dining, mobility, and routine care as part of the training track.