Resident Attendant

Company: Alden Estates of Barrington
Location: Barrington
Posted on: March 17, 2023

Job Description:

Alden Estates of Barrington - JOB SUMMARY
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• Assist nurse aides with designated resident care specific areas of eating, drinking and personal hygiene. Receive and carry out instructions concerning the specific feeding, hydration and/or personal hygiene care needs of the residents whom he/she will be assigned to assist.
  
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  QUALIFICATIONS
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  • Must be at least 16 years of age.
    
  • Has completed at least eight years of grade school or provide proof of equivalent knowledge.
    
  • Must be able to speak and understand the English language or a language understood by a substantial percentage of the facility's residents.
    
  • Must be of temperate habits and good moral character, honest, reliable, and trustworthy.
    
  • Has completed the Health Care Worker Background Check.
    
  • Has completed and shown competency in a department approved training and competency evaluation program for Resident Attendants before caring for any residents.
    
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    ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
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    • Meets the following personal care needs of the resident:
      
    • Washing a resident's hands and face
      
    • Brushing and combing a resident's hair
      
    • Oral hygiene
      
    • Shaving residents with electric razor
      
    • Applying makeup
      
    • Meets nutritional needs by passing trays, ice water, nourishments; uses adaptive equipment; tray monitoring.
      
    • Feeds residents who do not have complicated feeding problems.
      
    • Observes and reports change in condition or behavior.
      
    • Meets safety needs by reporting environmental hazards.
      
    • Observe infection control measures.
      
    • Relates courteously and sensitively to residents, families, visitors, and staff.
      
    • Responsible for attending assigned in-service programs.
      
    • Other duties as assigned.
      
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      PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
      
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      • Must be able to move intermittently throughout the workday.
        
      • Must be able to cope with the mental and emotional stress of the position.
        
      • Must possess sight/hearing senses or use prosthetics that will enable these senses to function adequately to assure that the requirements of this position can be fully met
        
      • Must be able to relate to and work with the ill, disabled, young, emotionally upset and at times, hostile people.
        
      • Must be in good general health and demonstrate emotional stability
        
      • Is subject to exposure to infectious waste, diseases, conditions, etc., including exposure to the (HIV) AIDS and Hepatitis B viruses.
        
      • Must function independently, have flexibility, personal integrity, and the ability to work effectively with residents, family members, personnel, and support agencies.
        
      • Performs other related duties as assigned.
        
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Keywords: Alden Estates of Barrington, Waukegan , Resident Attendant, Other , Barrington, Illinois