Personal Care Attendant (PCA) Caregiver - Swing Shift

Prestige Care and Rehabilitation - Pinewood Terrace; Salem (OR); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a caring and collaborative team at an award-winning community dedicated to enhancing the lives of residents. This full-time role involves providing essential direct care, assisting with daily living activities, and ensuring a safe, respectful environment. As part of a family of skilled nursing and assisted living centers, you will have the opportunity to grow within a supportive culture that values integrity, trust, commitment, and respect. If you are passionate about making a difference in the lives of others and thrive in a team-oriented atmosphere, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Must complete competency evaluation within 120 days of employment.
• Experience with older adults preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct care and assists residents with daily activities.
• Documents care services and observes residents' conditions.
• Follows safety and infection control practices.

Skills

Direct Resident Care

First Aid

CPR

Communication Skills

Problem-Solving

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Communication Log

Job description

Full-time Swing Shift Position $15-$18/hr DOE

Job Summary:

Provides direct resident care, completes assignments as a universal worker, assists in maintaining a positive physical and psychosocial environment for residents, and upholds Prestige’s core values of respect, integrity, commitment, and trust.

Essential Functions:

1. Provides direct resident care while promoting resident dignity, independence, and choice, regularly observes residents’ physical and mental conditions, and reports changes to the Health Services Director, Expressions Coordinator, or Executive Director.
2. Assists with or performs ADLs, takes vital signs and weights, and accurately documents care services provided and observations on communication log and incident reports. Reports and documents all incidents and accidents immediately.
3. Assists residents to and from dining room and activities.
4. Performs First Aid and initiates emergency response procedures as required.
5. Greets residents, visitors, and staff courteously and answers phones when assigned.
6. Follows and supports community fire safety and infection control practices and promptly reports any unsafe conditions or equipment to immediate supervisor.
7. Serves meals in the dining room, assisting residents at meal time, provides resident tray delivery, and assists with dining room and kitchen clean up and maintenance.
8. Assists with tours, move-ins, move-outs, and transfers and coordinates personal care service with co-workers assisting with lifting and responds to assistance pages promptly.
9. Assists with apartment housekeeping services and resident’s laundry.
10. Attends and participates in training, in-services, and staff meetings.
11. Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Must complete and pass competency evaluation within 120 days of employment, state required training including the Revised Fundamentals of Care, Dementia Care, First Aid, CPR, and HIV training if not able to provide appropriate documentation of prior training. Must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Must be able to perform essential job duties with or without reasonable accommodation.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

High school diploma or GED with one or more years of personal care experience with older adults preferred.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

Current First Aid and CPR certification. Food Handlers permit if required by State.

EOE/M/F/VETS/DISABLED – At Prestige, it is our promise to personally touch lives every day. It is a philosophy of caring based on our core values of integrity, trust, commitment, and respect, that are at the center of all that we do. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce that represents all of us, coming from different experiences, cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints. Inclusion is the way we treat one another and how we celebrate what makes us different.

Prestige is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Information About Prestige Senior Living at Orchard Heights

Located at 695 Orchard Heights Road NW in Salem, Oregon, Prestige Senior Living - Orchard Heights has 61 apartments of assisted living, as well as 18 units. Our community is right off of Wallace Road in West Salem, so it’s near all sorts of services and more. Our community itself is beautiful – tons of ambient light, tall ceilings, and a clean community.

We have a cohesive team that loves to work hard, but loves to have even more fun. We are motivated to serve our residents to live a fulfilled life. Our culture is one of collaboration, promote-from-within, and doing whatever it takes to serve our residents. Our team members are enabled to be creative, independent, problem-solving “managers” who can “manage” their role to the best of their ability. Our leadership is there to train those who are struggling or are unsure how to execute a task – we want to do it right! We love to collaborate on all the teaching, as well as coming to creative solutions.

If working in a home-like setting, with a strong team atmosphere, and with a national award-winning employer (Orchard Heights is a former national-award winning community!) that has a great promote-from-within culture, then Prestige Senior Living - Orchard Heights is the place for you.

Who Is Prestige Care/Prestige Senior Living?

Prestige Care is a family of over 75 skilled nursing + post-acute care centers, as well as assisted living and memory care communities in 8 Western states. We are an organization of over 5,000 team members who serve thousands of residents, where we have the privilege of personally touching their lives every day.

We have four core values of integrity, trust, commitment, and respect that guide everything that we do. With a strong commitment to career development and advancement, Prestige Care is an employer that can help you achieve your career goals and objectives. With a healthcare career at Prestige Care, you will enjoy a collaborative, team-oriented environment where your work truly matters at the end of every day.