Certified Nursing Assistant

This full time position offers a wealth of benefits to include comprehensive and affordable health benefits, paid parental leave, generous paid time off, tuition and student loan assistance, employer retirement contributions, and much more!

Essential Job Functions

• Teaches and assists clients in completing tasks and activities.
• Implements program goals for each individual.
• Plans, organizes, and implements community outings and related daily activities.
• Participates in annual program plan reviews for assigned individuals in the program.
• Plans and implements activities according to each individuals identified strengths, needs, and desires as identified on his/her program plan.
• Completes all necessary documentation on a consistent basis.
• Responsible for the daily care, supervision, safety, and training of assigned individuals.
• Participates in on-going in-service training and participates in at least 24-hour in-service training annually including, but not limited to First Aid Training, personal emergency interventions, Fire Safety, and other safety techniques.
• Responsible for proper implementation of de-escalation techniques and authorized restraint techniques in accordance with the emergency restraint policy.
• Respects each individual’s limitations and assists each individual to make choices.
• Promotes good social interactions with each individual that is served.
• Provides each person with as much assistance as necessary to complete tasks.
• Communicates with the Director, Supervisors, Coordinators, and Program Specialists/QIDPs about concerns arising in the care and training of assigned individuals.
• Takes an active interest in implementing, promoting, and protecting the civil rights of each individual.
• Maintains confidentiality relative to the individual’s records, training progress, and tracking documentation according to HIPAA regulations.
• Promotes a safe and clean working environment.
• Responsible for maintaining a positive work atmosphere by behaving in a professional manner and promoting camaraderie with co-workers, supervisors, and others.
• Shares responsibilities in monitoring breaks, lunches, and van duty.
• Responsible for consistent punctuality and attendance.
• Follows all work rules and policies for the Developmental Programs Division.

Other Job Functions

• Assists nursing with medication administration and documenting on the MAR or the eMar for individuals at the Day Program.
• Assists nursing with tube feedings, bolus feedings, and tube flushes.
• Assists nursing with unhooking and hooking feeding tubes before and after individual’s toileting.
• Assists nursing with monthly MAR’s, pulling old documentation and filing updated information.
• Assists nursing with medication expiration checks and compiling updated lists for pharmacy.
• Assists nursing with maintaining supply management, both supplemental and nursing supply orders.
• Assists nursing with problem solving issues as they arise.
• Performs other duties as assigned by Administration and the Day Program management team.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• High School diploma required.
• Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) is required.
• Minimum of one (1) year of experience in the healthcare field is required.
• Ability to perform a one person pivot as well as assisting individuals to bear weight and ambulate with or without assistance is required.
• Can demonstrate the ability to perform a two-person lift and transfer of individuals to and from their wheelchairs.
• Ability to read and write competently in English.
• Ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.

Certificates and Licenses:

• Valid (state of residence) Driver's License and driving approval from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia is required.
• Ability to successfully pass and maintain acceptable background checks – FBI, PA Child Abuse, and PA State Police Criminal History.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This position does not have any direct supervisory responsibilities.

Work Environment:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be required to work in a variety of settings and environments and has an occasional exposure risk to adverse weather conditions.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually light to moderate and the office is subject to frequent interruptions throughout the day.

Physical Demands:

• The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds with assistance. 
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include Close vision, Distance vision, Peripheral vision, Depth perception and Ability to adjust focus.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to walk and sit.
• The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell.

Hazards:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee may face low exposure risks to blood borne pathogens, with a low exposure risk to hazardous materials.

*This is a full time Monday - Friday 8am-4pm position*

**Starting pay for this position is $18.75/hr. or more for experience**

**Equal Opportunity Employer M / F / D / V **