Resident Assistant

Summary: Resident assistants help residents with a variety of daily activities, including basic activities of daily living such as assistance with bathing, dressing, and grooming. All resident assistants are required to work some weekends and holidays to best serve our residents at the New Ivy Lodge, LLC.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Day and evening staff will typically have an assignment of 5 or more residents for whom they are specifically responsible during their shift, and for whom they will be the primary staff responsible for personal care and medication assistance.
• In addition, day and evening shift resident assistants will participate in serving meals and doing housekeeping tasks, as well as leading activities. They may also be assigned to drive residents to and from doctors' appointments, shopping, or outside activities. Overnight resident assistants will have housekeeping and laundry duties in addition to assisting residents on an as-needed basis.
• Other duties may be assigned by Executive Director/Administrator or his/her designee.

Qualifications: to perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The employee must exhibit a professional and respectful manner, conservative, appropriate dress, and excellent personal hygiene are essential.

• You will be required to take a First Aid class and keep it current.
• If you drive for our facility, you must have a current and clean NYS driver's license.
• You are required annually to do a health reassessment.
• Attend monthly staff meetings.
• Attend in-service trainings as well as external trainings as directed

Education Requirement: High school diploma or equivalent; certificates

Language

Skills:

You must be able to communicate clearly and cordially with all residents, residents' families, vendors, and outside health and service providers, as well as with all other Ivy Lodge staff. You must be able to understand verbal and written instructions in English as well as able to write notes in English.

Reasoning Ability: You should be able to apply common-sense understanding to carry out oral and written instructions.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand for long periods of time, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb and balance;

stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; carry objects without dropping them; talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must be able to lift and/ or move more than 50+ lbs.

Work Environment: while performing the duties of this job. The employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and hot and cold environments, high precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, sharp utensils, toxic or caustic chemicals, outside weather conditions, risk of electrical shock, and vibration.

You must undergo a criminal background check.