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CJE SeniorLife · 1 day ago

Resident Assistant (Full/Part-Time & Flex; $19.67 an hour)

Deerfield, IL

Full-time, Part-time

Onsite

Entry Level

$19.67/hr - $19.67/hr

1+ years exp

CJE SeniorLife is a healthcare organization dedicated to providing quality care for seniors. They are seeking a Resident Assistant to assist residents with personal care, medication reminders, and maintaining a clean living environment while ensuring compliance with safety policies and regulations.

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Culture & Values

Responsibilities

Provides or assists residents with direct personal care including all aspects of personal hygiene and activities of daily living, bathing, dressing, and grooming in accordance with established care procedures and standards

Provides assistance to residents, as necessary, with transfers, standing, sitting, and walking

Provides medication reminders in accordance with established plan of care

Performs a variety of selected cleaning tasks in order to maintain the cleanliness, safety, and attractiveness of the facility and residents’ apartments and living areas, including, but not limited to, dusting, mopping, vacuuming, and trash removal

Provides and assists residents with laundry services including changing linens, picking up laundry, labeling, tending laundry equipment, folding, sorting, hanging, and distribution of clothing

Communicates regularly with team members to identify and report resident concerns and service needs

Other duties as assigned

Complies with safety policies and procedures

Adheres to laws regarding the protection, use, disclosure, and release of client and CJE business information

Attends required in services

Reports violations of law, regulations, policies, or procedures

Reports client abuse or neglect

Records documentation timely, accurately, and completely

Qualification

Health care aide experienceCustomer serviceLanguage skillsCompassionAccountability

Required

High school diploma/general education degree (GED) or one (1) year experience as a health care aide, companion, homemaker, or other related position required

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos

Ability to write simple correspondence

Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form

Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations

Must have physical coordination, dexterity, agility and mobility and be able to safely and properly assist residents physically with various capabilities, as needed for purposes of bathing, toileting and other activities of daily living

Physically assisting residents requires exertion in excess of 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or in excess of 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or in excess of 20 pounds of force constantly to move and/or position residents

Physically assisting residents requires continual substantial control, balancing, stooping kneeling, crouching, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, feeling and repetitive motions