Personal Care Attendant (PCA) Memory Care - Swing Shift

Company: Prestige Care, Inc.
Location: Fox Island
Posted on: May 6, 2021

Job Description:

Benefits include Bridge Toll Pass, Attendance Bonus, Nursing School Scholarship and CNA/HCA Program Tuition Reimbursement.:

Position Details:

Status: Full-Time/Part-Time/On-Call

Shift: Day/Evening/NOC

Schedule: Various

Working Hours Start: Various

Working Hours End: Various

What does the Personal Care Attendant do?:

The Personal Care Attendant provides the best in direct resident care including bathing, toileting, and companionship. The PCA will also complete various assignments as a universal team member at the community and assists in maintaining a positive physical and psychosocial environment for residents.

Why join the Prestige Care Family in the Personal Care Attendant role?

* See the impact of your expertise and care by interacting with our residents on a daily basis.
* Collaborate with a strong team of health care providers, all while working in a home-like setting.
* The ability to bring pure joy and community to our residents.
* Build relationships with your residents for months and years at a time.
* Strong promote-from-within culture: the possibilities are endless.
* Our 35+ year old, family-owned and operated organization (with over 80 locations in 8 states) means we aren't too small, but not too big. You are known here.

In this job, every day you will---

1. Provide direct resident care while promoting resident dignity, independence and choice, regularly observes residents' physical and mental conditions and reports changes to the Health Services Director, Expressions Coordinator, or Executive Director.

2. Assist with or provides care services as directed by the resident's cooperative service plan.

3. Report and document all incidents and accidents per policy. Completes all incident forms.

4. Assist residents to and from dining room and activities.

5. Perform First Aid and initiates emergency response procedures as required.

6. Coordinate personal care services with co-workers assisting with lifting and responds to assistance pages promptly.

7. Serve meals in the dining room, assist residents at meal time, provides resident tray delivery, and assists with dining room and kitchen clean up and maintenance.

8. Assist in lifting, moving and transporting residents using proper body mechanics or assistive devices as directed by the resident's cooperative service plan.

Education Experience needed to qualify:

* High school diploma or GED with one or more years of personal care experience with older adults preferred.
* Must hold state required certification (if required), complete state required delegation and/or training requirements and successfully complete the ADL competency return demonstration.
* Must have word processing skills.
* Current First Aid and CPR certification.
* Food Handlers permit if required by State.

Ways you can advance beyond the Personal Care Attendant role:

Once you master this role, you could consider the Lead Personal Care Attendant, Medication Technician, Resident Care Coordinator, or other jobs with Prestige Care.

EOE/M/F/VETS/DISABLED - At Prestige, it is our promise to personally touch lives every day. It is a philosophy of caring based on our core values of integrity, trust, commitment, and respect, that are at the center of all that we do. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce that represents all of us, coming from different experiences, cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints. Inclusion is the way we treat one another and how we celebrate what makes us different.

Questions? Contact OlympicED@prestigecare.com

Information About Olympic Alzheimers Residence

Located at 3025 14th Ave. NW in beautiful Gig Harbor, WA, Olympic Alzheimers Residence (OAR) is a 30 apartment all memory care community the is licensed for 60 beds. If you are looking for the highest quality of healthcare communities or care centers, you won't find anyone better. OAR has had many of it's leaders be promoted into regional and corporate roles, and have enjoyed many recent deficiency free surveys (2018, 2019). Not only have they had these exceptional survey results, many leaders at OAR have won Washington Health Care Association state awards recently, including the "Executive Director of the Year," as well as the "Red Carpet Award" In addition, OAR has won multiple national quality care awards including the "Bronze" (2018) and "Silver" (2019 - the only care center in the state of Washington to obtain this award) awards through the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living.

The culture of a OAR is one of high performance, supportive, and one that is all about teamwork. All managers at the community is available and present at all times to support the team. By working at OAR, you would be enjoying a strong coaching leadership style, a supportive environment, and one in which you are empowered to own your role, and joy opportunities for career advancement.

If working in a home-like setting, in a strong team atmosphere, and with a national award-winning employer that has a strong promote-from-within culture, then Olympic Alzheimers Residence is the place for you.

Who Is Prestige Care?

Prestige Care is a family of over 75 skilled nursing + post-acute care centers, as well as assisted living and memory care communities in 8 Western states. We are an organization of over 5,000 team members who serve thousands of residents, where we have the privilege of personally touching their lives every day.

We have four core values of integrity, trust, commitment, and respect that guide everything that we do. With a strong commitment to career development and advancement, Prestige Care is a employer that can help you achieve your career goals and objectives. With a healthcare career at Prestige Care, you will enjoy a collaborative, team-oriented environment where your work truly matters at the end of every day.:

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