Certified Nursing Assistant

Certified Nurse Aide

Optalis Healthcare & Rehabilitation – Leonard Campus

1700 Leonard St NE, Grand Rapids, MI

Are you ready to make a meaningful difference every day? At Optalis Healthcare & Rehabilitation, we’re not just a workplace — we’re a family. Our team at the Leonard facility is dedicated to providing exceptional, compassionate care to our residents while supporting one another in a positive, team-oriented environment.

Shifts:

• FIRST SHIFT 7:00 AM - 3:00 PM
• SECOND SHIFT 3:00 PM - 11:00 PM
• THIRD SHIFT 11:00 PM - 7:00 AM

A CNA’s daily responsibilities include delivering direct care to patients (bathing, toileting, feeding, grooming, etc.) as directed by the RN or LPN in charge. The role involves maintaining patient comfort and safety, following departmental policies and procedures, and upholding infection control standards. CNAs represent the facility with integrity, free of gifts or improper inducements, and adhere to the Core Values and mission.

• Providing great patient care.
• Answering patient calls and determining how best to help them.
• Providing physical support for patients or residents with daily activities and personal hygiene, including bathing, dressing, getting out of bed, using the toilet, walking, standing, or exercising.
• Turning and repositioning bedridden patients.
• Ensuring patients or residents receive appropriate diet by reviewing their dietary restrictions, food allergies, and preferences.
• Obtaining a wide range of information from physicians, caregivers, and nurses about patient conditions, treatment plans, and suggested activities.
• Measuring and recording food and liquid intake and urinary and fecal output and reporting changes to medical or nursing staff.
• Recording vital signs, including blood pressure, pulse, temperature, and respiration rate as requested by staff.
• Examining patients to detect issues requiring medical care, including open wounds, bruises, or blood in the urine.
• Reminding patients to take medications and nutritional supplements.
• Noting observations of patient behavior, including complaints, or physical symptoms to nurses.
• Staying up to date on CNA training and facility policy and procedure.
• Other duties as assigned.

• State Certified Nursing Assistant Certification.
• COVID-19 Vaccination or Exemption.
• Ability to think and work independently and with direction, and communicate with staff members in a fast-paced and sometimes stressful environment.
• Valid identification.
• Comfortable using a computer.

• Prior experience in long term care is preferred.
• Prior experience with Infection Control is preferred.

• Entry level

• Full-time

• Health Care Provider

• Hospitals and Health Care