Find your joy here! The Amberleigh is a 66 apartment Assisted Living located in Williamsville, NY is in search of HHAs full and part-time for our 3p-11p and 11p to 7a shifts. We offer a comprehensive benefit package to including competitive wage, weekly pay, health and dental insurance, 401k with company contributions, employee retail discount program, employee referral bonus program, advancement opportunities and so much more! Apply today!
Shift: 3p-11p and 11p and 7a shifts available with every other weekend off
Responsibilities include:
- Performs HHA duties in accordance with accepted standards of resident care. Duties may include measuring height
and weight and vital signs
- Performs assist duties in accordance with accepted standards of resident care. Duties may include assists with dressing,
grooming, bathing, escorts and transfers
- Cares for the resident's environment.
- Recognizes changes in the residents' behavior and conditions and reports those changes to the Assisted Living Director.
- Provides regulated queuing services by providing assistance to an assigned group of residents.
- Provide stand by assistance for all personal care for residents, including bathing, showering, shampooing, oral hygiene, skin care, hair care, nail care, dressing, shaving, toileting, transferring, ambulating, and transporting.
- Provides residents with personal laundry.
- Follows proper charting procedures for resident care items.
- Ensures residents recreational needs are met by providing activities and assisting residents to attend programs/events.
Nutritional Care:
- Assists residents with nutritional needs, including setting dining tables, serving meals, providing proper fluid requirements,
and offering substitutions when appropriate.
- Monitors and reports food and fluid intake and offers/provides snacks between meals.
Restorative Care:
- Encourages residents to develop and maintain independence and highest level of functioning in all personal care
- Encouragers and provides functional cueing for the use of assistive devices in transferring, ambulating, eating, and
dressing.
Infection Control / Safety:
- Demonstrates knowledge of infection control in all resident care to prevent the spread of disease and infection.
- Demonstrates awareness of potential hazards and reports unsafe conditions to appropriate community staff to maintain a
safe environment for residents, families, and staff (i.e. reports spills, faulty equipment, maintains a clear path for resident
ambulation, uses wheelchair locks appropriately, etc.).
Communication:
- Utilizes community resources and maintains open communications with all community staff.
- Communicates skillfully with residents, including those with sensory losses and/or dementia.
- Receives and gives report on residents' conditions and changes in conditions to other staff at the beginning and end of
each shift.
- Observes and reports residents' condition changes to the Assisted Living Director immediately and exchanges resident
information with the Assisted Living Director on an on-going basis through the use of written Incident and Concern reports.
- Assists the Assisted Living Director in the development of the residents' service plan and uses this information to provide
daily resident care.
- Documents residents' information accurately and on a daily basis on the appropriate forms.
- Documents any / all resident concerns and/or incidents as they occur on the appropriate forms.
Customer Service:
- Is an active member of the resident care team and supports community goals.
- Is pleasant, respectful, and courteous in all interactions with residents, families, staff, and other visitors to the center.
- Is a positive representative of the community at all time
- Is consistently responsive to residents' needs.
- Assists residents with meal reminders, including setting tables. serving and offering appropriate suggestions with meal
selection.
- Observes and reports appetite and offers/ provides snacks between meals.
- Acknowledges residents' and families concerns and initiates action.
- Assists residents in participating in planned activities including getting residents to activities and participating in them.
Residents Right:
- Provides privacy and maintains confidentiality.
- Ensures the residents' right to make personal choices in agreement with the residents' service plan.
- Promotes and provides for and assist with residents' participation in activities.
- Ensures care and security of residents' personal possessions.
- Ensures all confidential information, i.e., resident charts, reports. etc are kept locked in a designated secure place at all
times
- Provides care that ensures residents are free from abuse, mistreatment, and neglect, and immediately reports any such
instance to the Executive Director.
- Provides care to avoid the need for chemical/physical restraints by maintaining a safe environment for residents. *
- Provides care to maintain a safe environment for residents.
In-Service Education:
- Attends all in-service education programs mandated by Corporate. State. and Federal guidelines.
- Responsible for pursuing and completing a minimum of 12 hours in-service education per year where individual
development is needed to comply with Federal regulations.
Quality improvement:
- Audits resident care and uses the audit information to improve the quality of care.
- Demonstrates commitment to continuous quality improvement job responsibilities. Adheres to strict infection control guidelines including hand washing and universal precautions.
- Reports any and all exposures to infection in accordance with OSHA and SSL guidelines, policies, and procedures.
- Demonstrates knowledge of emergency policy and procedures.
- Performs all duties in a safe and efficient manner.
- High school graduate or GED preferred
Salary Range: $16.85-$17.50
