Nursing Assistant

4 weeks ago

Durham, North Carolina, United States Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a skilled Nursing Assistant to join our team at the Community Living Center, a 66-bed facility providing long-term care, hospice, palliative care, rehab, and extended care services to eligible veterans.

Responsibilities
  • Provide patient care, including feeding, bathing, dressing, positioning, and transferring patients.
  • Obtain vital signs and capillary blood glucose results, and document care and patient education.
  • Perform procedures such as enemas, wound care, tube feedings, and suctioning, and apply creams and lotions as needed.
  • Assist with examinations and medical procedures, and prepare and position patients for care.
  • Perform as a sitter to observe patients when necessary for suicide prevention, fall reduction, and risk of harm to self or others.
Work Schedule and Physical Effort

The position requires 12 and 8-hour shifts, including days, evenings, nights, and every other weekend rotations. The work involves heavy lifting and carrying of 45 pounds and over, repetitive pulling, pushing, reaching above shoulder, walking, standing, bending, kneeling, and rapid mental and muscular coordination simultaneously.

Requirements
  • Citizen of the United States.
  • One year above high school with courses related to the nursing assistant occupation, or completion of an intensive, specialized, occupation-related course of study of less than one year as a nursing assistant.
  • English language proficiency.
Preferred Experience and Education
  • Certified Nursing Assistant Level I or Certified Nursing Assistant Level II.
  • Hospital Acute Care (NA) experience within the last 2 years.
  • Community Nursing Home patient care within the last 2 years.
  • Demonstrated use of computerized electronic medical record charting and data entry.
  • Long Term Care of Adult Geriatric patients.
  • Demonstrated successful care of the Psychiatric Acute Patient.
Grade Requirements

The full performance level of this vacancy is GS-05. The actual grade at which an applicant may be selected for this vacancy is GS-05.

Physical Requirements

The position requires visual acuity, keen hearing, clear distinctive speech, and manual dexterity. The incumbent may be exposed to infected patients and contaminated materials and may be required to don protective clothing in isolation situations, operative/invasive procedures, or home settings.

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