Night Shift Caregiver

: Job Summary

A Caregiver is the key role in our business. Caregivers are responsible for helping our residents lead rich and fulfilling lives. One could look at the job and say primarily you assist with ambulating, grooming, dressing, bathing, eating, toileting and cleaning...and that would be true. However, being a caregiver is about much more than a list of tasks. It is about relationships and making people's day better each and every time you come in contact with them. When you do that, you as a Hope Landing Caregiver will become part of our residents' family and that will not only change their life, but yours as well.

Work Tasks

• Administer care per resident care plan.
• Report changes in client condition to manager or supervisor.
• Perform healthcare-related tasks, such as monitoring vital signs and basic first aid.
• Participate in reviews, consulting with administration, to evaluate resident needs and plan for continuing services.
• Perform housekeeping duties, such as cleaning, and washing clothes.
• Provide adequate nutrition and hydration of residents. Pass water and assist with feeding as indicated.
• Pay strict attention to universal precautions on the infection control protocol.
• Insure safety and well being of each resident.
• Accurately complete documentation to reflect care rendered.
• Report changes in resident condition to Director of Resident Care immediately.
• Participate / attend staff meeting and training sessions as directed.
• Perform daily household duties. Responsible for the general cleanliness of the facility and resident rooms.
• Perform other duties as directed by employer.
• Read and comply with all policies found in the personnel policies handbook.

Requirements

• Must be 18 years of age.
• High School Diploma or GED.
• Must be able to safely lift a minimum of 50 pounds and complete job functions which require repeated body motions.

Required Knowledge

• Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the language used in the workplace including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
• Psychology — Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation.

Required Skills

• Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
• Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
• Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
• Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Instructing — Teaching others how to do something.
• Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.

Required Abilities

• Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
• Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
• Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
• Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
• Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.