Certified Nursing Assistant - CNA

Certified Nursing Assistant

If you would like an opportunity to join a team of passionate individuals who work hard in providing quality medical care, this is the job for you. This is a great opportunity to make an impact and provide quality nursing care as part of an interdisciplinary team.

• Monitor and record crucial patient health data, including vital signs, height, weight, and fluid balance, promptly reporting any significant observations.
• Ensure a safe and healthy environment by rigorously adhering to infection control protocols and emergency procedures.
• Facilitate patient mobility and comfort through assistance with ambulation, repositioning, and range-of-motion exercises.
• Maintain cleanliness and sanitation of patient areas, work spaces, and medical equipment, and support nursing staff in sterilization efforts.
• Administer physician-ordered, self-administered medications, ensuring patients receive their necessary treatments.
• Safeguard sensitive inmate information by strictly upholding confidentiality standards.
• Approach change with a positive and adaptable mindset, contributing to a dynamic work environment.

Please note:

An offer of employment will be contingent on the applicant successfully passing a DHHS background check and pre-employment drug testing, and a Utah Department of Corrections (UDC) background screening.

• Unrestricted Utah CNA Certificate.
• Must have current Certification of Nursing Assistant (CNA). Utah Administrative Rules R432-45.
• Requires considerable & strenuous physical exertion such as long periods of standing, walking, bending, crouching, reaching, recurring lifting. Must be able to lift and carry over 50 pounds.
• Risks found in potentially dangerous or unusual environmental stress situations, e.g. being subject to possible physical attack.

• We are currently hiring for either days or nights. Please note, your answer to the supplemental question regarding the schedule you would prefer may result in you being excluded from interviews.
• Days: 6:00AM - 6:00PM
• Nights: 6:00PM - 6:00AM
• Each schedule will be scheduled for a total of 7 12-hour shifts per pay period with rotating weekends. The Agency

  The Division of Correctional Health Services has a mission of improving the lives of staff and individuals who are incarcerated and promoting public safety by delivering safe and effective integrated healthcare.