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The purpose of this position is to honor and respect those living and working in our home through companionship, empowerment, and individualized care while providing a comfortable and safe place to live.
This position is in training to provide basic hands-on patient/resident care in a safe, clean, infection-controlled environment by bathing, dressing, grooming, hygiene, skin care, range of motion, positioning, ambulating, transferring, toileting programs, feeding programs, transporting, performing basic assessments (vital signs, blood pressures, weights, etc.), and charting/documenting all of the above.
Primary Job Duties
Resident Care
- Provide direct resident care by hands-on performance or assistance as needed with activities of daily living.
- Provide environmental needs by arranging and adapting personal care items such as food or clothing and/or physical environment needs, e.g. wheelchair, walker, etc.
- Gently guide and instruct residents as needed in self-care activities.
Nutrition and Hydration Care
- Supervising and instructing residents as needed for self-care activities.Recommends observation of specific residents who may need dietary changes, e.g. from regular diet to pureed or regular liquid to thickened liquid.
Safety
- Monitor safety needs by supervising residents’ whereabouts, interactions, and conditions and refer them to the charge nurse if necessary.
Hygiene Care, Documentation
- Collaborate with the charge nurse and other nursing personnel to provide and exchange information regarding resident care status, and to evaluate the effectiveness and appropriateness of the Treatment Care Plan.
- Document observations and care provided on various residents' records.
Psychosocial, Transport, Educational requirements
- Provide psychosocial needs for individual residents and their significant others by direct personal contact.
- This position will be required to deliver blood draws to the lab, and drive a resident to a doctor’s appointment, or the hospital (if not transported by ambulance).
- Maintain education by attending mandatory and non-mandatory in-services and workshops to keep current as mandated by state law and VA regulations and facility policy and procedures.
Other Duties Assigned
- Other duties as required for business needs
- Required to obtain CPR certification and Vaccinations as required by State and facility.
- Knowledge and ability to appropriately carry out assigned resident care based on the residents' conditions; to use judgment and to accurately recognize, report and record relevant resident information.
- Knowledge and ability to recognize urgent or emergent resident care situations, seek assistance of the RN and/or MD/DON, and initiate appropriate emergency interventions as directed.
- Knowledge of quality standards, procedures, and protocols
- Knowledge of specialized client care applicable to the work situation
- Skill in initiating, performing and completing assigned duties in providing care to residents.
- Ability to effectively work with an elderly patient population of varying physical, mental and emotional abilities and staff from multiple work units in the facility to achieve quality care planning and delivery
- Ability to observe, identify, and respond to the resident's needs for care, including medication, equipment-assisted care, and patient/family education.
- Superior verbal, listening, and written communication skills with all healthcare providers, residents, families, and the general public.
- Demonstrated ability to display professional conduct at all times when dealing with fellow staff members, patients, families, and the general public.
- Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality at all times.
- Long-term care/nursing home experience is highly desirable
- Effective problem-solving skills
- Must pass a full background check to include CBI name check and fingerprint check, ICON Colorado court database, Medicare fraud database, Professional License verification (licensure requirements), Drug Screen, CAPS (direct contact with adults – Mental Health Institutes, RegionalCenters, Veterans Community Living Centers).
- Must pass TB test and/or get facility-required vaccinations.
- Must possess a valid, unrestricted US Driver's License.
- Travel: May deliver blood draws and lab and/or transport residents to appointments, etc.
- Must obtain a CPR certification
- Must possess a valid Colorado CNA license upon entry into the position, or have completed an accredited CNA program and obtain a CNA license within four months of completion.
- Full Background - Name check, TRAILS and Fingerprinting
- This position is considered an "essential service" designation and therefore, this position will be required to report without delay or interruption to provide essential or emergency services to ensure health, safety, and welfare.
- This position has shift work: Must be able to work various 12-hour shifts, any day including weekends and holidays according to facility needs.
- On-call Status: May sign up for on-call
- Former State employees who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination must disclose the information on the application and provide an explanation why the prior termination or resignation should not disqualify the applicant from the current position. Absent extraordinary circumstances, prior disciplinary termination or resignation in lieu of termination will disqualify the applicant from future State employment with CDHS.
How to Apply
The Assessment Process
For additional recruiting questions, please contact annette.torrez@state.co.us
Our Values:
We believe in a people-first approach: To serve the people of Colorado, we develop a culture and work environment that creates an energized, inspired, and healthy team capable of giving their best to Coloradans.
Balance creates quality of life: We want our team to be resilient through a supportive workplace that values flexibility, health and wellness, and employee engagement.
We hold ourselves accountable: We take responsibility through our actions, programs, and results for the state of health and human services in Colorado.
Transparency matters: We are open and honest with employees, our partners, the Coloradans we serve, and the public.
We are ethical: We abide by what is best for those we serve by doing what is right, not what is easy.
Collaboration helps us rise together: We work together with all partners, employees, and clients to achieve the best outcomes for Coloradans.
We are committed to increasing the diversity of our staff and providing culturally responsive programs and services. Therefore, we encourage responses from people of diverse backgrounds and abilities.
ADAA Accommodations:CDHS is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to our ADAAA Coordinator, Nancy Schmelzer, at cdhs_ada@state.co.us or call 1-800-929-0791.
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