Certified Nursing Assistant​/Cna​/

Certified Nursing Assistant / CNA / FT - Days

Requisition #

Shift: Day

Status:
Full Time with Benefits

We know our CNAs are the heart of our facility, which is why we've just implemented a major pay boost for the whole team. Join us and start earning at our new, highly competitive rate from day one! Hackensack Meridian Health Nursing & Rehab is currently offering a $2,500 sign‑on bonus to CNAs who join our team! Brand new CNA graduates start out earning $20.32 per hour, and our pay rates increase from there based on each CNA's years of experience.

Please apply today so that we can discuss your future and career with Hackensack Meridian Health!

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives—and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community.

Together, we keep getting better—advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.

The role of a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) is to demonstrate the ability to provide exceptional resident care. The CNA also ensures resident’s plan of care is followed, completes all required documentation per state/federal guidelines, and follows all facility policies and procedures.

• Provides patient care as per the Patient Care Plan, including ROM exercises, ambulation, transfer training, feeding assistance, calorie counts, bed-making, personal hygiene, skin checks, AM and HS care, vital signs, answering call bells promptly, post‑mortem care, assist with room changes, and participate in reports.
• Identify and report all real or potential problems regarding the administration of patient care.
• Ensure residents are wearing/using adaptive equipment as ordered.
• Ensures patients are clean, neatly dressed, groomed, safe, and fed during assigned shift hours.
• Follows through on ordered restorative nursing for assigned patients.
• Completes all required tasks, documentation, and reports daily as per facility policy and state and federal regulations.
• Records intake and output and bowel movements.
• Reports any unusual changes in patient condition to Charge Nurse promptly. Communicates pertinent information and actual or potential problems to RN throughout the shift.
• Participates on committees as requested by supervisors.
• Identifies patient needs and treatment opportunities, providing services to meet those needs on an ongoing basis.
• Maintains professional competence and keeps current with occupational health trends through continuing education, in‑service programs, professional staff sessions, and training of nursing personnel.
• Fosters good relationships and communications with all team members, patients, family/significant others, and visitors.
• Additional duties as assigned.

• Completion of an approved CNA program.
• Able to lift 50 lbs.
• Current with all Continuing Education (CE) requirements.
• Perform clinical care professionally.
• Serve as patient advocate and role model to other team members.
• Deliver patient care in a timely, efficient, and effective manner.
• Ability to effectively work on a multidisciplinary team.

• Computer skills, including Microsoft Office.
• Long‑term care and rehabilitation facility experience.
• Prior work experience with geriatric and disabled populations.
• Bi‑lingual (Spanish).

• NJ CNA License.

Minimum hourly rate: $22.35. Hackensack Meridian Health is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted rate is an estimate of the minimum base pay at the time of posting and may not reflect the full value of our market‑competitive total rewards package.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, breastfeeding, genetic information, refusal to submit to a genetic test or make available to an employer the results of a genetic test, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, national origin, nationality, ancestry, disability, marital status, liability for military service, or status as a protected veteran.