Job Description

Cherokee Park Rehabilitation is seeking Patient Care Assistants to join our team! You can become certified as a CNA in two weeks!!

Free Covid Vaccines for all Staff!!

PCA’s, Hospitality Aides and Personal Care Assistants provide support and assistance to nursing personnel and assist in maintaining a positive physical and psychosocial environment for residents.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Identify and participate in process improvement initiatives that improve the customer experience, enhance workflow, and/or improve the work environment.
• Make unoccupied beds.
• Clean resident equipment.
• Clean resident’s personal care and grooming items.
• Maintain residents’ closets, bedside stands, drawers, and closets in a clean, orderly and odor free manner.
• Label clothing and belongings.
• Complete admission inventory of clothing and belongings.
• Distribute personal laundry.
• Monitor and replenish resident care articles.
• Answer call lights and provide non-care giving tasks; i.e. change TV, open windows, adjust articles within residents’ reach, pass ice and water, relay requests for actual care assistance to nursing staff, transport residents to meals, activities, care conferences, assist with passing trays in the dining room and to residents who do not require feeding assistance.
• Other special projects and duties, as assigned.

Job Requirements:

• CNA not required.
• Feeding certified preferred.
• High school diploma or GED required or equivalent related work experience.
• Effective verbal and written English communication skills.
• Highest level of professionalism with the ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Ability to communicate at all levels of organization and work well within a team environment in support of company objectives.
• Customer service oriented with the ability to work well under pressure.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy, excellent organizational skills with ability to prioritize, coordinate and simultaneously maintain multiple projects with high level of quality and productivity.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision, take initiative and make independent decisions.
• Ability to deal with new tasks without the benefit of written procedures.
• Approachable, flexible and adaptable to change.
• Function independently, and have flexibility, personal integrity, and the ability to work effectively with employees and vendors

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

The Facility is an equal opportunity employer. The Facility does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, disability, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran status, or any other characteristic(s) protected by federal, state, and local laws. The Facility will also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities should a request for an accommodation be made. A key part of this policy is to provide equal employment opportunity regarding all terms and conditions of employment and in all aspects of a person's relationship with the Facility including recruitment, hiring, promotions, upgrading positions, conditions of employment, compensation, training, benefits, transfers, discipline, and termination of employment.