Personal Care Attendant; PCA; Caregiver Job Corvallis area,Oregon USA,Healthcare

Position: Personal Care Attendant (PCA) - Caregiver

Prestige Senior Living – West Hills

Located at 5595 SW West Hills Road in beautiful Corvallis, Oregon, Prestige Senior Living – West Hills is a 66 apartment all assisted living community. Our West Hills community is a place where you as a team member get to enjoy many amazing relationships between co-workers, but also our amazing residents. It's evident here that the residents and our staff truly connect on a personal level.

Our community is always clean, well kept, and a true home-like setting where you can bring your whole self to work every day.

West Hills has a reputation for being one of the cleanest, highest performing assisted living communities in the Willamette Valley area, including winning the "Bronze" National Quality Care award in 2017.

When asked about the culture at West Hills, our Executive Director mentions that it is "resident-centered, all-inclusive, positive, exciting, fun, and compassionate." You will get the training and knowledge to know what is expected of you, and then the autonomy to do your job with excellence.

Our community employs many high performing, empathetic healthcare providers that serve our residents, and keep our community looking absolutely stunning. If working in a home-like setting, in a strong team atmosphere, with an award-winning employer, then Prestige Senior Living – West Hills is the place for you.

Job Summary

Provides direct resident care, completes assignments as a universal worker, assists in maintaining a positive physical and psychosocial environment for residents, and upholds Prestige's core values of respect, integrity, commitment and trust.

Essential Functions:

Provides direct resident care while promoting resident dignity, independence and choice, regularly observes residents' physical and mental conditions and reports changes to the Health Services Director, Expressions Coordinator, or Executive Director.

Assists with or performs ADL's, takes vital signs and weights and accurately documents care services provided and observations on communication log and incident reports. Reports and documents all incidents and accidents immediately.

Assists residents to and from dining room and activities.

Performs First Aid and initiates emergency response procedures as required.

Greets residents, visitors, and staff courteously and answers phones when assigned.

Follows and supports community fire safety and infection control practices and promptly reports any unsafe conditions or equipment to immediate supervisor.

Serves meals in the dining room, assisting residents at meal time, provides resident tray delivery, and assists with dining room and kitchen clean up and maintenance.

Assists with tours, move-ins, move-outs, and transfers and coordinates personal care service with co-workers assisting with lifting and responds to assistance pages promptly.

Assists with apartment housekeeping services and resident's laundry.

Attends and participates in training, in-services, and staff meetings.

Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Must complete and pass competency evaluation within 120 days of employment, state required training including the Revised Fundamentals of Care, Dementia Care, First Aid, CPR and HIV training if not able to provide appropriate documentation of prior training. Must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Must be able to perform essential job duties with or without reasonable accommodation.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE High school diploma or GED with one or more years of personal care experience with older adults preferred

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS Current First Aid and CPR certification. Food Handlers permit if required by State.

EOE/M/F/VETS/DISABLED – At Prestige, it is our promise to personally touch lives every day. It is a philosophy of caring based on our core values of integrity, trust, commitment, and respect, that are at the center of all that we do. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce that represents all of us, coming from different experiences, cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints.

Inclusion is the way we treat one another and how we celebrate what makes us different. Prestige is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.