Lead Caregiver

Lead Caregiver

The Lead Caregiver is responsible for providing caring and personalized assistance for residents living in our community.

• High school diploma or GED preferred
• Previous health care or geriatric experience preferred
• CNA preferred
• CPR/First Aid certification strongly preferred
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out written/oral/visual instructions

• Lead, manage, and overall accountability for your team and their performance
• Timely & Accountable Attendance:
  Upholding to work schedule, being ready to start work on time, remaining on the job for the whole duration of shift, and limited use of time off
• 1440 Care for residents:
  Understanding and leading our 1440 care standards so you and your team ensure that each resident and each family has their needs met
• Responsible communication with families: communicating messages tactfully and timely with resident’s families and ensuring the message has been received and correctly understood
• Communicate resident changes immediately; providing timely and detailed information to your Wellness Leader regarding any changes to a resident’s needs or care

• Leads and provides 1440 care
• Will provide compassionate and competent care for residents by performing the following services:
  • Bathing, showering and grooming assistance
  • Serve and collect food trays; assist residents with dining
  • Wheelchair and walking escorts
  • Toileting and incontinence care assistance
  • Meal, activity, and medication reminder assistance
  • Wake up and turn down service
  • Upkeep of resident rooms
  • Answers resident call signals
  • Medication assistance/medication administration
• Maintains appropriate and complete documentation per company policies
• Available to work weekends and/or on call as necessary as assigned by the Wellness Coordinator
• Work toward continual improvement of the overall organization
• Perform other duties as assigned

This position entails standing for long periods of time. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to communicate effectively with others, sit, stand, walk and use hands to handle keyboard, telephone, paper, files, and other equipment and objects. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms. This position requires the ability to review detailed documents and read computer screens.

The employee will occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. The work environment requires appropriate interaction with others. The noise level in the work environment is moderate. Occasional travel to different locations may be required.

This classification description is intended to indicate the general kinds of tasks and levels of work difficulty that are required of positions given this title and should not be construed as declaring what the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position shall be. It is not intended to limit or in any way modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct and control the work of the employees under her/his supervision.

The use of a particular expression or illustration describing duties shall not exclude other duties not mentioned that are of a similar kind or level of difficulty.