Personal Care Aide (Pca) (Cna)

AASC is seeking competent and talented Personal Care Aides (PCA) or Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA) to join our amazing team as we deliver quality home care to clients in our 8-county service area in Southwest Virginia.

Specific schedule: Dayshift Monday - Friday

Our employees enjoy the following benefits:

• Competitive pay with shift differential for holidays or weekends

• 9 paid holidays

• On-the-job training

• Medical, Dental and Vision coverage, Retirement, Short and Long-term disability benefits, Critical Illness, Accident and Life Insurance

• Employee Referral Bonus

Qualifications: Must possess a Personal Care Aide certificate from an approved program or be a Certified Nursing Assistant licensed with the Virginia Board of Nursing and be in good standing. Prefer experience in providing personal care assistance to patients.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Assist with dressing, undressing, and bathing of client including routine skin care to include maintenance and care of external condom catheters.

• Assist with grooming of hair, cleaning of nails, and shaving with electric razor.

• Assists with care of teeth, mouth, and dentures.

• Provide incontinence care and toileting assistance: can include emptying of external indwelling catheters, i.e. foley or suprapubic catheters, urostomy, or colostomy.

• Assists individual to ambulate, turn/change positions, or transfer; often involves lifting greater than 20-40 lbs. or more at a time and unassisted.

• Prepare meals and assist individual with eating or feeding, following special diets or swallow restrictions.

• Assists individual with self-administered medications; may remind the individual of medications at prescribed times; doesn't include pouring of, determining dosage of, instilling, injecting, or applying medications in any form.

• Provides supervision for those individuals who require the physical presence of an aide to insure their safety during times when no other support system is available.

• Provides routine wound care that does not include sterile technique, may wash with soap and water and apply a non-sterile bandage.

• Obtain and report vital signs: temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure, 02 saturation, and weight. Recognize and report significant changes in client.

• Provide light housekeeping of the individual's main living areas (bed, living, kitchen and bathrooms), to sweep, mop, dust, change bed linens.

• Lists supplies needed for purchase to grocery shop, and assist with mail if no caregiver

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Must be physically able to perform duties, often lifting 20-40 lbs. or more unassisted, frequent bending, stooping, reaching, stair climbing, or positioning of clients.

• Ability to understand and carry out exact oral or written instructions without close or constant supervision.

• Must possess and maintain an electronic device capable of sending and receiving email, to record worked time, and for production of aide record.

• Must possess good interpersonal skills to remain professional, ethical, and courteous to effectively deal with clients and maintain strict confidentiality.

• Must provide own personal transportation in work capacity.

• Ability to successfully complete all assigned trainings/evaluations/competencies/license as required by the agency, and for no less than (12) hours annually.

• Must be telephone accessible and willing to work flexible hours throughout the service area.

• Must maintain bank account for direct deposit of wages earned.