Wage Range: $18.00-20.00 Depending on Experience
Creative and caring people, this job is for you! The Holgate Center is seeking Lead Caregivers for our senior living community in Portland, serving 100+ residents in our assisted living apartments.
Holgate Center (HC) strives to provide a positive work environment that fosters collaboration, teamwork, and continuously achieving solid business results.
HC team members unite around a common cause of resident care and community support. This culture brings our team together and ensures everyone is working toward the same goal.
A team that works together with a collective goal to improve our residents care experience creates an internal culture of collaboration and mutual success. HC is passionate about making a positive, lasting impact on our residents and visitors, and so are our team members.
Benefits:
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Co Company-subsidized medical and dental insurance.
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Voluntary vision, life, and AD&D insurance
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Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Life Assistance Program (LAP)
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Sick time, vacation time, personal holiday, bereavement time
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403(b) with Employer Match
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Flexible Spending Account
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Free Parking
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Referral Bonus Program
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Reduced Fare Bus Pass
Major Duties and Responsibilities
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Provides supportive services to nurse(s), RCC, RFC Director, and caregivers as needed/requested and performs duties as assigned.
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Oversee shower schedule, refrigerator cleaning schedule, assistive devices cleaning schedule, and to ensure daily adherence and documentation.
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Assist the facility nurse with the monthly weights and vitals clinic.
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Assists Med Techs with needed additional weights or vitals
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Assist with getting residents to and from scheduled podiatry clinic at the facility
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Assists other caregivers with care and daily tasks to ensure completion and quality.
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Assign additional tasks and distribute work to ensure equitable distribution of tasks for each floor and caregiver.
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Preform a weekly review of all shower sheets and ensure completion.
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Review shower sheets and update nurse of any documented skin issues observed. Bruising, abrasions, open skin areas, redness, rash, swelling, and signs of any skin break down or pressure ulcers.
- Assists residents with or performs activities of daily living for residents in accordance with care plans and established policies and procedures.
- Performs ongoing training in safe transfer procedures, gait belt training, and training of safe transfer to and from showers.
- Responsible for alerting the nurse and/or RCC of care changes, in a prompt manner.
- Assists the nurse with assigned IP (infection prevention) duties, such as setting up PPE carts, stocking PPE, and placing residents on observation and/or isolation.
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Keeps nurse and supervisor informed of factors that interfere with being able to perform the work as assigned (i.e. resident refusal, request no care from certain caregivers).
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Reports changes in a resident’s condition to the facility nurse and RCC.
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Responsible for regularly checking the schedule and reporting to shifts as assigned. Works with the Staffing Manager to coordinate scheduling changes and time off.
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Has knowledge of the activities department and is responsible for setting up basic activities (such as playing movies and setting up card games) in the absence of the activities director.
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Attends resident care conference meetings with the RCC and Administrator.
- Participates in care plan creation and updates as requested/needed.
