Pay: $16.00 - $21.00 / hour
NEW ARPA ALP Funding Program means NEW BONUSES for our PCAs & HHAs!
$5,000 (Full Time) $2,500 (Part time)
Elderwood Assisted Living at West Seneca is hiring Resident Care Aide/Personal Care Aide (PCA) or Home Health Aide (HHA) to join our team. Full-time 6am-2pm available
We are offering New Sign-on & Retention bonuses for Home Health Aides (HHAs) and Personal Care Aides (PCAs) through the ARPA ALP Funding program. This one-time funding is dedicated to enhancing workforce stability and diversity within Assisted Living Programs (ALPs) that are currently providing services to Medicaid residents.
Why This Matters:
- Support Your Career Growth: This funding supports the essential roles of HHAs and PCAs, ensuring workforce stability and diversity.
- Immediate Impact: You can make the difference in our residents needs, and grow your career, while receiving Recruitment and Retention Funding
PCA/HHA Overview:
- Resident Care Aide - Personal Care Aide (PCA) team members assist with ensuring the health and well-being of our residents by providing personal care support. This position is responsible for meeting the physical and emotional needs of residents under the direct supervision of a licensed nurse ensuring that the highest degree of quality resident care is maintained at all times.
Resident Care Aide - Personal Care Aide (PCA):
- Ability to assist residents with Daily Living Activities as needed that may include meal assistance, grooming, medication management, showering, dressing/undressing.
- Move and walk quickly and steadily in an emergency situation.
- Ability to assist with wheelchair transport of resident(s).
- Ability to apply/utilize Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as required.
- Responsible for responding immediately to residents requests.
- Assists residents with the following Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), according to their plan of care
- Notifies Supervisor of changes in residents conditions or needs:
- Assists with service in the dining room for all meals as needed. Maintain facility standards for service and customer focus techniques.
- Informs nurse responsible for the care of resident and document duties performed as necessary before leaving for break or end ofshift.
- Attends facility meetings, staff meetings, and required or preferred in-services.
- Generates and develops ideas which improve the quality of care for residents or increase position productivity and satisfaction.
- Consistently demonstrates the ability to respond to changing situations in a flexible manner in order to meet current needs, such as reprioritizing work as necessary.
Resident Care Aide - Personal Care Aide (PCA):
Resident Care Aide - Personal Care Aide (PCA) Skills and Competencies:
- Ability to verbally communicate well with residents, families and staff members
- Ability to read and understand task assignments, ability to report verbally and provide written documentation as required
- Display of genuine concern for the elderly; a dependable, patient and compassionate attitude towards residents. Respectful demeanor of residents rights and wishes
- Ability to cooperate and maintain respectful treatment with others
- Sense of responsibility, maturity, diplomacy and ability to work well with residents, families and other staff members
- Ability to perform assigned tasks to a high degree of excellence and cleanliness
- This position requires regular interaction with residents, coworkers, visitors, and/or supervisors. In order to ensure a safe work environment for residents, coworkers, visitors, and/or supervisors of the Company, and to permit unfettered communication between the employee and those residents, coworkers, visitors, and supervisors, this position requires that the employee be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language at an intermediate or more advanced level.
WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. Applicants and employees are considered for positions and are evaluated without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.