CNA - Skilled Rehab​/AM

Description

Description

Looking for CNA Full Time AM Shift

7am-3pm

Week 1:
Sunday, Monday, Tuessday, Thursday, Friday

Week 2:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday

Base Pay + Shift Differentials

Cantata Adult Life Services, formerly known as The British Home, is a nonprofit, mission-driven community with over 100 years of experience, offering a full continuum of care on a beautiful 10-acre campus in Brookfield, Illinois. We are seeking strong, compassionate leaders to join our team and help us continue enriching the lives of older adults through exceptional care and a vibrant community.

The Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) serves as a senior member of the nursing assistant team, providing direct resident care. This role also supports the immediate supervisor with operational tasks, ensuring all duties are carried out in accordance with established policies and procedures, as well as applicable federal, state, and facility regulations.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities: This description is intended only to identify the basic responsibilities and requirements of this job classification and does not prevent the assignment of other job-related duties. Successful job applicants will be able to perform these essential functions with or without requested reasonable accommodation.

• Supports the Mission, Values, and Vision of Cantata Adult Life Services and the facility.
• Supports, cooperates with specific procedures and programs for:
• Safety, including universal precautions and safe work practices, established fire/safety/disaster plans, risk management, and security, report and/or correct unsafe working conditions, equipment repair and maintenance needs.
• Confidentiality of all data, including client, employee-partner and operations data.
• Quality Assurance and compliance with all regulatory requirements.
• Compliance with current law and policy to provide a work environment free from sexual harassment and all illegal and discriminatory behavior.

Essential Duties:
Provides quality nursing care to clients in an environment which promotes their rights, dignity, freedom of choice, and their individuality as illustrated by the following:

• Provides individualized attention, which encourages each client’s ability to maintain or attain the highest practical physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being.
• Knowledgeable of the individualized care plan for clients and provides support to the client according to the care plan.
• Attends to the individual needs of clients which may include assistance with grooming, bathing, oral hygiene, feeding, incontinent care, toileting,colostomy care, prosthetic appliances, transferring, ambulation and range of motion, applying creams/ointments, or other needs in keeping with the individuals’ care requirements.
• Performs various tasks assigned by the charge nurse including vital signs, weights, collecting specimens, intake/output, etc.
• Assist with transfers, repositioning, and ambulation using proper techniques and equipment for accident prevention.
• Support restorative care and maintain resident comfort, privacy, dignity, and independence
• Interacts with clients in a warm, compassionate manner that fosters a caring, homelike environment.
• Fully understands all aspects of client rights, including the right to be free of restraints and free of abuse. Responsible for promptly reporting to the charge nurse or administrative staff incidents or evidence of client abuse or violation of clients’ rights.
• Answers clients’ call lights promptly and courteously.
• Provides care that maintains each client’s skin integrity to prevent pressure ulcers, skin tears, and other damage by changing incontinent clients, turning, repositioning immobile clients, and applying moisturizers to fragile skin, etc.

• Observe clients for changes in condition or behavior and promptly reports these changes to appropriate licensed nursing personnel.
• Monitor residents for safety risks (falls, skin breakdown, changes in behavior or cognition)
• Communicate unit updates, concerns, and priorities to the charge nurse

• Complete accurate and timely documentation of care in the EMR (e.g.,…