ALF Caregiver

Role overview

This position is responsible for delivering routine day-to-day care and support to assigned residents in line with each person’s assessment and care plan, while also following direction from supervisors.

Primary duties

• Use PCC to verify resident details when helping with activities of daily living, meals, and similar tasks.
• Promptly communicate any change in a resident’s condition to the Health and Wellness Director.
• Document notes, SPA records, incident reports, and similar records clearly and descriptively.
• Immediately report accidents and incidents observed during the shift to the Executive Director and Health and Wellness Director.
• Protect resident health information and escalate any suspected or known privacy breach.
• Report any suspected unauthorized access attempts involving the community’s information system.
• Only carry out care tasks you have been trained and authorized to perform.
• Prepare resident rooms before arrival, including making the bed.
• Welcome residents, guide them to their rooms, and help introduce them to roommates, other residents, and staff as appropriate.
• Help residents settle in and feel comfortable.
• Inventory and label personal belongings as directed.
• Store residents’ clothing appropriately and help pack belongings for room transfers or discharge.
• Move residents to new rooms or receiving areas, and assist with vehicle loading and unloading when needed.
• Contribute to a warm, respectful, calm, and positive unit atmosphere throughout the shift.
• Attend regular meetings with nursing staff to identify issues and support service improvements.
• Report resident complaints and grievances.
• Receive and participate in nursing handoff reports as directed.
• Follow blood and body fluid exposure procedures and report occupational exposure incidents, including infectious materials and hazardous chemicals.
• Make beds, add extra blankets when requested, and keep residents who cannot call for help under frequent observation.
• Respond quickly to resident call lights and routinely check that personal care needs are being met.
• Help residents with food orientation when they have vision-related needs, including identifying items on the tray and whether food is hot or cold.
• Keep water pitchers clean, filled with fresh water each shift, and within easy reach.
• Provide after-meal care such as removing trays and cleaning residents’ hands, faces, and clothing.
• Support daily personal care such as oral care, bathing, grooming, dressing, undressing, shaving, nail care, and hair care.
• Keep residents clean and dry by changing clothing, gowns, and linens as needed.
• Help residents get ready for tests, examinations, therapy, lab work, x-rays, dental visits, and other appointments.
• Assist with lifting, turning, repositioning, moving, and transporting residents using beds, chairs, bathtubs, wheelchairs, lifts, and related equipment.
• Carry out restorative and rehabilitative procedures as instructed.
• Observe and report pressure areas, skin breakdown, skin tears, and other injury concerns.
• Monitor disoriented or comatose residents and record/report observations as instructed.
• Provide special treatments when directed.
• Immediately inform the Nurse if a resident leaves or goes missing from the facility.
• Use only equipment you have been trained to operate and report defective equipment to the Nurse Supervisor or Charge Nurse.
• Maintain confidentiality of all resident care information and report any suspected unauthorized disclosure.
• Report all allegations of resident abuse or misappropriation of resident property.
• Respect a resident’s refusal of treatment and notify your supervisor.
• Assist with end-of-life care and post-mortem care as instructed.
• Carry out all assigned work according to facility policies, procedures, work assignments, and schedules.
• Cooperate with staff across departments to help maintain quality service for residents.
• Notify the facility if you will be late or absent.
• Assist with bowel and bladder care, toileting, use of bedpans, urinals, and portable commodes, and track intake/output as directed.
• Keep incontinent residents clean and dry and record or report bowel movement details and stool characteristics as instructed.
• Provide protective and adaptive equipment support as instructed.
• Assist with eye and ear care, including cleaning eyeglasses and hearing aids and helping with hearing aid placement.
• Weigh and measure residents and record temperature, pulse, and respiration readings as directed.
• Give back rubs when instructed.
• Provide positioning support so bedrest residents remain properly and comfortably placed.
• Assist with the care of residents during all stages of need, including comfort-focused support and post-mortem procedures.

Qualifications

The role requires at least a high school education or an equivalent qualification. Candidates should be able to read and interpret business, professional, technical, and regulatory material; write reports, correspondence, and procedure manuals; and communicate effectively with managers and staff. The job also calls for the ability to work with fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions, solve practical problems in situations with limited standardization, and understand instructions delivered in written, spoken, diagrammatic, or schedule form. Proficiency with Microsoft Suite products is required.

Physical and work environment

This role may require occasional lifting or moving of up to 25 pounds, prolonged computer use, and regular sitting, standing, walking, speaking, reading, and hearing. Frequent use of office equipment such as a copier/scanner/fax, telephone, and calculator is expected. The work setting is generally low to moderate in noise level.

Additional information

This job description does not limit management’s ability to assign or change duties at any time. The responsibilities listed here represent the general nature and level of work, and they may be adjusted when reasonable accommodation or other circumstances require it. The organization is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected status.