Certified Nursing Assistant

Job Overview

Are you interested in looking for an opportunity to further your experience in the behavior health field? Are you looking for a supportive environment that offers you the ability to make a significant impact on people’s lives?

Being a Certified Nursing Assistant at Devereux has its Advantages.

• Best available, highest quality, low-cost benefit options – learn more ereux.org.
• On-going training opportunities – internal training in the behavioral health-care field (Safe and Positive Approaches and New Directions), and additional job-related trainings and conferences.
• Performance evaluations with ongoing coaching conversations.
• A collaborative team environment.
• National non‑profit employer that offers a strong support system and is forward‑thinking in their clinical practice and research.
• Employee assistance / work‑life balance program.
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Starting pay: $20/hr additional $ for years of experience.

• Assist our Nursing staff with various tasks such as checking vital signs, collecting specimen, escorting individuals to their units, administrative tasks, maintaining records, and providing treatment under the direction of a Registered Nurse.
• Assist with training new CNAs, in addition to crisis intervention (deescalating and restraining as needed).
• Communicates effectively and tactfully with individuals served, visitors, families, peers, supervisors, and medical personnel.
• Knowledgeable of individualized care plans and provides support according to the individual's care plan.

• Education:
  
  High school diploma or equivalent, graduate of an approved CNA program, and valid certification as a Certified Nursing Assistant in GA.
• Experience:
  
  Minimum of one year experience as a certified nursing assistant is preferred.
• Must have flexible availability between 6:30am-9pm and weekend and holiday availability.
• Valid Driver's License and satisfactory drug screen and background check results.
• Must be at least 21 years of age.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong technical skills and comfortable utilizing in‑house computer applications for documenting and reporting purposes.
• Must be able to complete a two-week, paid new hire orientation class; hours are approximately 8:30am to 5:30pm daily (lunch is included).

Be empathetic, a team player, energetic, creative, understand the theories of behavior management and positive reinforcement, and represent yourself as a positive role model; have a strong passion for working with and helping children and adolescents with behavioral differences.

Devereux has a zero‑tolerance policy for abuse and maintains policies and procedures to systematically reduce the risk of abuse in the organization. Devereux fosters a culture of reporting abuse, and will cooperate with the authorities to the fullest extent possible.

Devereux is a drug‑free workplace, drug screening required. EOE