Caregiver, Elderly​/Senior Care, Healthcare Nursing

Job Location:

White Oaks Assisted Living and Memory Care, Lawton, MI 49065

Responsible for enhancing and improving the SRIM experience specifically in heartfelt care for our residents and their families. Demonstrates and promotes SRIM’s core value of the golden rule. Treats others including residents, families, visitors, and associates in the same way we would like to be treated. Attends to all the daily living needs of residents; assistance with ADL’s, meal service, light housekeeping, and laundry while encouraging resident independence.

Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Assists residents with all activities of daily living including dressing, grooming, peri‑care, toileting, and hygiene.
• Speaks to and interacts with residents at all levels of care while showing empathy, kindness, compassion, and respect.
• Observes and reports to supervisor daily.
• Changes in the resident's health and emotional wellbeing.
• Serves and assists residents in the dining room at breakfast, lunch, and dinner daily.
• Initiates and participates in leisure activities provided to residents as described in the activity calendar.
• Always maintains a clean, safe, and orderly environment for all residents.
• Performs daily general housekeeping duties following established cleaning schedules.
• Ensures and supports a dignified caring atmosphere for residents, families, visitors, and associates.
• Responds promptly and courteously to residents' requests for assistance including phone calls and requests from family members and visitors.
• Communicates effectively in a language that each resident is capable of understanding.
• Ensures residents and/or responsible parties sign residents out when they leave the community.
• Maintains a safe and secure working environment free of hazards.
• Responsible for eliminating objects or situations that could cause harm or falls to residents, families, visitors, and associates.
• Practices good body mechanics and safe working habits.
• Observes and reports safety hazards immediately to supervisor.
• Provides assistance to associates when requested or required.
• Knows, understands, follows established policy and procedures in emergency situations.
• Responsible for being essential personnel during emergencies and/or inclement weather.
• Remains at community until released by supervisor.
• Works as a team player with other associates and management in accomplishing work assignments.
• Demonstrates a positive and respectful attitude about work issues, policies, and procedures.
• Demonstrates a positive and respectful attitude with residents, families, visitors, associates, and management.
• Complies with attendance and call off policy.
• Participates in trainings, in‑service, and mandatory meetings.
• Wears clean and appropriate dress per established dress code policy.
• Refrains from discussing resident care issues with families or visitors and refers all inquiries to immediate supervisor.
• Knows, understands, and complies with HIPAA regulations.
• Assists with training of new employees.
• Assists in mentoring new employees.
• Takes initiative in work and seeks to offer solutions and suggestions without being asked.
• Willingly takes on special projects or assignments outside regular duties.
• Provides a variety of housekeeping and/or laundry duties in maintaining the community in an orderly, clean, and sanitary condition.
• Performs all other reasonable duties as assigned or requested.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential…