SENIOR CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT - ACTV

Requisition No: 859921 

Agency: Veterans Affairs

Working Title: SENIOR CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT - ACTV

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 50457003 

Salary:  $37,420.76 

Posting Closing Date: 09/07/2025 

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Requisition # 859921

SENIOR CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT / ACTIVITIES

FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS’ AFFAIRS

Ardie R. Copa’s State Veterans’ Nursing Home

Port Saint Lucie, St. Lucie County

Annual Starting Salary:  $37,420.76

Paid Bi-weekly.

 

Excellent retirement package and optional deferred compensation plan.  Health, vision, dental, ‎disability, and other supplemental insurance are available at reasonable premium rates.  Paid vacation and ‎sick leave. Nine (9) paid holidays and one (1) personal day.  Tuition waiver available for State Universities and ‎Community Colleges (up to 6 credits per semester).‎

 

Education and employment history must be verifiable.  Please attach any credentials you claim (degrees, certifications, etc.) to your application.

 

*Other vacant Senior Certified Nursing Assistant/Activities positions (shifts) and OPS (Temporary) positions may be filled from this advertisement within six (6) months of the closing date.

 

The incumbent is assigned primarily to Activities but is expected to work on a resident unit when nursing assistance is needed.

 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must have current licensure as a Certified Nursing Assistant in the state of Florida.
• Must be willing and able to work some weekends, evenings, and holidays.
• Must be willing and able to drive a 15-passenger facility van.
• Must have a valid Florida driver’s license.
• Must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Must have good computer skills.
• Current CPR card.
• Successful completion of the employment screening process to include, but not limited to, a national background investigation and drug test.‎

 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience in a long-term care environment with a geriatric population in activities department.
• High school diploma or G.E.D.

 

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

The incumbent of the Senior Certified Nursing Assistant (SCNA) / Activities position will be responsible for ensuring that the residents Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), daily assignments and an ongoing program of activities in accordance with the comprehensive assessment are completed during the shift while identifying and resolving needs. Reports directly to the Activities Director (Therapy Aide Supervisor).

• Assist with developing and implementing an activities program, which improves or maintains physical, mental, and social well-being with a varied work schedule that may include weekends, evenings, and holidays.
• Assist with developing activities plan for each resident in accordance with the inter-disciplinary team process. 
• Responsible for the documentation of that plan in the resident’s medical record. 
• Responsible for initial interview with new residents and input of resident data into the medical record.
• Performing duties of the Activities Director when the Activities Director is unavailable.
• Responsible for maintaining the activity space and requesting equipment and supplies for the program and ensuring resident safety for individual and/or group activities.
• Provide the assistance, when necessary, by giving residents the following Activities of Daily Living nursing care: oral hygiene; ‎bathing; dressing and grooming; hair and nail care; shaving; toileting; assistance with meals, nourishment and transportation ‎to meal service areas, and mobility. 
• Routinely observe, identify, and report resident concerns/needs to supervisor.
• Provide ‎escort to re