DETAILS

• Department: Skilled Nursing
• Schedule: Full-time 37.5 or Part-time 15 hours per week; all shifts potentially available
• Facility: Ascension Living Our Lady of Peace
• Location: Lewiston, NY
• Salary: $15.89 - $20.97 per hour
  Schedules with guaranteed hours will include hours every other weekend and some holidays; Potential to float.

REQUIREMENTS

Licensure / Certification / Registration:

• Successful completion of a Certified Nurse Aide program and/or NYS Current Certification.
• Certification must be current and the C.N.A. must be in good standing with the NYS Aide Registry required.

Education:

• H.S Diploma or GED preferred.

Work Experience:

• Minimum Experience: On the job training provided.
• Six months Nurse Attendant experience in a hospital/skilled facility or equivalent clinical experience as determined by the Director of Nursing Services, preferred.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As our Certified Nursing Assistant, you are the “front-line!” You are the one team member who patients remember because you spend many hours of direct care with them!
Every day that you come to work, you improve people’s lives.
At Our Lady of Peace, you not only impact the lives of the residents who you touch, but you have an impact on their entire family!
As an Associate with Our Lady of Peace, you will have the opportunity to assist with basic patient care activities.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• The Assistant provides personal care assistance to residents as directed: (bathing, grooming, feeding and toileting)
• Prepares resident for meals; serves and collects trays, assists in setting up and feeding residents; serves fresh water and nourishments when indicated.
• The Certified Nursing Assistant helps residents with transferring and lifting, raising residents in beds and turning residents. May apply restraints as directed.
• Obtain temperature on residents whose medical conditions warrants such monitoring. Obtain urine samples, weights, intake/output.
• Regularly checks on residents insuring comfort, dignity and privacy.
• Attend all inservices and meetings as required.

The following duties may be reassigned:

• Clean each unit as assigned by the Director, including IV poles, ice bucket/ladle, wheelchair/carts.
• Assist in transporting residents to and from the therapy clinic ensuring both safety and comfort.
• Assist in the administration of rehabilitation programs as directed by the Therapist or Assistant, performing non-therapist functions such as following ambulatory residents with a wheelchair, removing a hot pack or returning equipment to appropriate storage.
• Provide direct restorative care and delegated formalized rehabilitation tasks, as assigned, completing work accurately, safely and in a timely manner.
• Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.