Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), Day Shift, Home Assistance (Silver Spring)

AHC Home Assistance

If you are a current Adventist HealthCare employee, please click this link to apply through your Workday account.

 

Adventist Home Assistance seeks to hire an experienced Certified Nursing Assistant for our Home Care Division who will embrace our mission to extend God’s care through the ministry of physical, mental and spiritual healing.

As an Adventist Home Assistance CNA you will:
• Assist care manager with rising patient care needs
• Provides excellent personal care to patients to maximize satisfaction according to Aide Plan of Care.
• Maintains safe environment while demonstrating initiative toward safety and risk management issues.
• Ensures continuity of care across shifts and participates in discharge planning.
• Collaborates with medical team and support staff to deliver quality care.
• Completes patient care duties as assigned.
• Documents information on patient records, hospital forms and logs per hospital standard.
• Provides necessary instruction to patient.
• Maintains role/specialty competencies, license and certifications.
• Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients on assigned unit/department.
• Participates in supply management and equipment maintenance processes.
• Consults with professional staff on patient problems and is involved with long and short-term goals that are consistent with organization’s mission
• Participates in orientation and evaluation of Patient Care Technicians.

Qualifications include:
• Current Maryland Board of Nursing Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)
• Active American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required
• First Aid Certification must be obtained within 30-days of employment; upon hire is preferred
• CNAs with a year or more of experience after certification preferred
• Score of 80% or more on the CNA Skills Assessment Test and ability to pass skills lab testing.
• Current driver’s license

Work Schedule:

9am - 5pm Monday - Friday

Montgomery County- Silver Spring

At Adventist HealthCare our job is to care for you.

We do this by offering:

• Work life balance through nonrotating shifts

• Recognition and rewards for professional expertise

• 403(b) retirement plan

• Free Employee parking

• Benefits Eligible Positions:

  • Competitive, comprehensive benefit plans [including health, employer-paid disability and life insurance, PTO]

  • Employer retirement contribution and match after 1-year of eligible employment with 3 year vesting  

  • Ancillary benefits such as flexible spending, legal and pet insurance to meet the needs of employees and their eligible family members

  • Subsidized childcare at participating childcare centers

As a faith-based organization, with over a century of caring for the communities in the Maryland area, Adventist HealthCare has earned a reputation for high-quality, compassionate care. Adventist HealthCare was the first and is the largest healthcare provider in Montgomery County.

If you want to make a difference in someone’s life every day, consider a position with a team of professionals who are doing just that, making a difference.

Join the Adventist HealthCare team today, apply now to be considered!

COVID-19 Vaccination

Adventist HealthCare strongly recommends all applicants to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 before commencing employment. Applicants may be required to furnish proof of vaccination.

Tobacco and Drug Statement

Tobacco use is a well-recognized preventable cause of death in the United States and an important public health issue. In order to promote and maintain a healthy work environment, Adventist HealthCare will not hire applicants for employment who either state that they are nicotine users or who test positive for nicotine and drug use.

 

While some jurisdictions, including Maryland, permit the use of marijuana for medical purposes, marijuana continues to be classified as an illegal drug under the federal Controlled Substances Act.  As a result, medical marijuana use will not be accepted as a valid explanation for a positive drug test result.

 

Adventist HealthCare will withdraw offers of employment to applicants who test positive for Cotinine (nicotine) and marijuana. Those testing positive are given the opportunity to re-apply in 90 days, if they can truthfully attest that th