Personal Care Attendant

 

Title of Job:      Personal Care Attendant

 

Objective:         Provide residents with assistance in their activities of daily living while

                          promoting residents to function at the highest level of independence.

 

Specific/ Essential Functions:

• Make regular rounds on residents checking for their location, safety and well-being.
• Assist residents with dressing, bathing, toileting, personal hygiene, incontinence care, transferring and ambulation.

• Encourage residents to function at their highest level of independence possible.
• Deliver mail/ newspapers to residents.
• Set dining room tables for meals as indicated.
• Serve resident meals and deliver meal trays to resident rooms if needed.
• Assist Food Service Department with plating of food, cleaning of tables, and cleaning of dishes as well as other food service duties as needed.
• Pass snacks to residents.

• Perform basic housekeeping tasks such as dusting, vacuuming and cleaning bathrooms of resident rooms, common areas and public restrooms.

• Strip, clean and make beds.
• Transport soiled linen to soiled utility rooms.
• Deliver clean linens to resident rooms.
• Wash, dry, fold and deliver resident laundry.
• Encourage resident participation in activities.
• Assist residents to/ from recreational programs and assist with programs as needed.
• Document as indicated.
• Provide residents with medication and treatment assistance.
• Assist nurse with taking blood pressure, temperatures and weights.
• Respond to customer service issues, concerns and complaints.
• Attend required in-service education training and staff meetings.
• Maintain CPR and First Aid Certification.
• Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Minimal Requirements:

• Ability to read and write English.
• Ability to communicate effectively with residents, their families and staff.
• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Be free from a medical condition, including drug and/ or alcohol addiction that would limit the provision of personal care services with reasonable skill and safety.

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to sit, stand and walk for at least 8 hours.
• Must be able to lift at least 50 lbs.
• Must be able to carry at least 25 lbs.
• Job requires had grasping, pushing, pulling and fine manipulation.
• Job requires ability to kneel, squat, twist and bend at waist and reach.
• Must be able to push residents in wheelchairs and push/ pull laundry carts.

Educational Requirements:

• Must have high school diploma or GED, or have active registry on the Pennsylvania nurse aide registry.