Personal Care Specialist-Polaris

Community Name : Polaris Community

The Personal Care Assistant is responsible for performing duties to enhance the quality of services provided for residents by ensuring everyone has water, snacks, refreshments and ice; assisting aides as needed; making beds; changing sheets; helping with assisted living as requested; accompanying residents to external appointments; comforting residents; supervising residents, documenting what they do day to day.

Essential Functions Statement(s)

• Makes and turns down beds
• Delivers ice to resident rooms
• Answers telephone and directs calls as appropriate
• Delivers snacks to those residents who do not require assistance in feeding
• Transports residents as requested
• Cleans and straightens resident rooms including drawers and closets
• Observes safety needs of residents including use of bedrails, rail pads and other protective supports
• Identifies safety / security hazards, ensures resident is out of immediate danger, reports to appropriate personnel
• Thinks and acts calmly and logically to meet unusual occurrences of the job without being thrown off stride
• Dementia Special Care Unit Follows all appropriate safety and security guidelines, procedures and protocol for residents in the Unit; Maintains appropriate, effective communication with residents, and with residents' family or other significant relationships; Provides all care, treatment and services with appropriate dementia care protocols; Participates in relevant educational and training activities as appropriate
• Performs all other duties as assigned or directed

Competency Statement(s)

Skills & Abilities

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