Resident Care Aide - Personal Care Aide (PCA)

Salary

Pay: $16.00 - $21.00 / hour

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

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.

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Qualifications

Resident Care Aide - Personal Care Aide (PCA):

• Eighteen (18) years of age required; high school diploma or equivalent preferred.

• Certification by an approved basic training program approved by the Department of Health and possess written evidence of such certification.
• Must maintain current annual skills testing approval.
• Ability to assist residents with all aspects of Daily Living Activities including bathing, toileting, and transferring.
• Ability to frequently lift and/or move up to 30 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 55 pounds; Occasional 2 person lift up to 120 pounds

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 pos