Caregiver, FT

Starting $19.30/hour + more with experience

Join Woodside as a caregiver in our assisted living facilities and join a team of individuals who truly care

* Promote principles of resident directed care including honoring residents' desires, strengths, and preferences. Promote residents' highest level of function
* Transfers residents, in wheelchairs, from room to common area, dining area, activities, or church
* Once certified, administers medications as ordered, including insulin, injections, topical, enteral, oral, etc.
* Understands the importance and necessity of accurate documentation
* Assemble, thin, and disassemble resident charts as necessary
* Responds to inquiries from families, and other referral sources by providing information about the facility, including tours when the Villa Care Coordinator or Admissions Coordinator are unavailable
* Provides care on the basis of infection control and blood borne pathogen best practices
* Answer resident call signals
* Turn and reposition residents alone or with assistance, to prevent bedsores
* Collect specimens such as urine, feces, or sputum as needed
* Observe resident conditions, measuring and recording intake and output and vitals as needed and ordered. Report changes to professional staff, physician, and/or family
* Provide residents with help walking, exercising, and moving in and out of bed. Bathe, groom, shave, dress and complete incontinent care as needed. Assist residents with eating