Personal Care Assistant (PCA)

Vancrest Health Care Centers; Cape Coral (FL); On-site; USD 16,531 - 20,664; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive wages

Health, Dental, Life & Short-term disability Insurance

FREE Health Insurance Option

Job summary

A community-based care facility in Cape Coral, Florida, is currently seeking personal care assistants to provide essential assistance to residents. This role involves ensuring personal care, medication assistance, and maintaining a safe environment. Competitive wages and comprehensive insurance options are offered to full-time staff. Ideal candidates must be compassionate, capable of lifting substantial weight, and willing to pass a background check. Various shifts available, including part-time options.

Qualifications

• Ability to assist with daily living activities and medication.
• Ability to lift, push, and pull a minimum of 50 pounds.
• Pass background check and drug test.

Responsibilities

• Ensure residents' personal care needs are met with quality and compassion.
• Report residents' medical needs to the charge nurse.
• Maintain a clean and safe physical environment.
• Ensure nutritional needs meet the established care plan.
• Assist with the evacuation of residents.
• Meet residents' medication needs.

Skills

Compassionate care

Medication assistance

Physical mobility

Job description

We live out our mission everyday by delivering personalized care in our facility where resident's comfort and quality of life always come first. We are a community-based care facility delivering the highest level of care by people you know and trust. Simply put, we are Vancrest and we deliver. We are currently seeking personal care assistants to join our Vancrest of Ada Assisted Living.

The position of personal care assistant exists to provide light activities of daily living and medication assistance to our assisted living residents.

Current Patient Care Assistant Opportunities:

• Part Time- 1st Shift - (Short Shift - 6am-10am)
• Part-time - 2nd Shift - (Short Shift - 5pm-9pm)
• Part Time- 3rd shift
• PRN-all shifts

The job responsibilities of the PCA include:

• Ensuring that residents' personal care needs are provided for with an emphasis on quality, compassion, and timeliness.
• Ensuring that residents' medical needs are addressed through the delivery of quality nursing care and reporting to charge nurse.
• Maintaining a physical environment in a clean, safe and pleasant manner.
• Ensuring that nutritional needs of residents are met in accordance with established care plan and reporting to appropriate director
• Performing other related activities as assigned or requested.
• Ensuring residents' medication needs are met.

Requirements of PCA:

• Move (sit, stand, bend and lift) intermittently throughout the workday.
• Lift, push, pull and move a minimum of 50 pounds.
• Assist with the evacuation of residents.
• Pass a background check and drug test

Vancrest offers the following benefits to full-time staff:

• Competitive wages
• Insurance
  • Health, Dental, Life & Short-term disability Insurance
  • FREE Health Insurance Option