Care Assistant Job Description
Care Assistant Duties & Responsibilities
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Care Assistant Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Care Assistant
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: BLS, CNA, AZ
Education for Care Assistant
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the care assistant job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as High School and Bachelor's Degree in Education, Nursing, Healthcare, General Education, Supervision, Patient Care, Math, Reading, Associates, Animal Care
Skills for Care Assistant
Desired skills for care assistant include:
Desired experience for care assistant includes:
Care Assistant Examples
Care Assistant Job Description
- Assists in data gathering, ie
- Stock assigned areas with Animal Care, custodial and medical supplies
- Sweep and mop all floors with disinfectant throughout the entire assigned area, in order to remove blood, feces, hair, urine, vomit
- Takes inventory of patient belongings and valuables documents and secures
- Performs clerical duties in EHR
- Schedules appointments, maintains master schedule for physicians and provides information
- Verifies eligibility and demographic information of hospitalized/post acute patients
- Assists the case management staff with implementation and documentation of the discharge care plan that includes initiation of referral forms, data gathering clinical information, chart copying, direct patient contact, PCP and specialist appointment scheduling
- Anticipates discharge planning needs and initiates appropriate referral forms
- Act as a liaison between physician and RN Care Managers as needed
- Have PC knowledge
- Experience in the healthcare, medical or pharmaceutical industry is a plus
- Tracheostomy and ventilated care
- 2 to 4 years of related experience in either a medical office of in workers' compensation claims
- Experience with care of immediate post-op heart patient preferred
- Unit Clerk experience preferred
Care Assistant Job Description
- Adherence to HCP Policies and Procedures
- Actively participates in planning and implementing recreation/socialization programs
- Assists with positioning, transferring, and ambulating participants as directed
- Takes all vital signs and obtains participant weight under supervision of nursing staff as assigned
- Assists with congregate meal service and feeds participants as needed
- Drives ADP facility bus as required when regular driver is unavailable
- Complete assigned duties in the culinary patient call center, providing services that meet the needs of patients and the division, company and regulatory standards
- Assure timely and accurate processing of all meal orders, tray tickets, and diet office reports
- Identify, trouble-shoot and resolve issues presented by customers in a timely manner
- Notify Manager or on-duty lead of any unresolved issue and request assistance as necessary
- Non-licensed graduate of a Registered Nurse or Licenses Vocational Nurse (LVN) program
- Successful completion of a Medical Assistant Program
- CNA license required
- Ability to engage in repetitive motions including movement of the fingers, hands and wrists
- Demonstrate service excellence principles in all interactions with patients, family members and caregivers
- Maintain the strictest confidentiality regarding patients according to policy and procedures
Care Assistant Job Description
- Prepares and/or maintains timely and accurate documentation of all activities in accordance with established standards and procedures
- Serves as site-based central point of contact for care management IT systems
- Assemble, distribute and stock respiratory care supplies throughout the hospital
- At times, will assist the therapist during cardio-pulmonary resuscitation and other emergency procedures
- Is responsible for all identification, cataloging and tracking of all respiratory care equipment
- Is responsible for assuring and maintaining the sterility of select equipment through following departmental policies regarding cleaning and processing of soiled equipment
- Maintain proficiency in the basic use of the hospital's computer system
- May assist the bio-medical technician in tracking and/or repair of respiratory care equipment
- May clean, disinfect and/or sterilize respiratory equipment
- May disassemble and prepare respiratory equipment for cleaning, disinfection and/or sterilization
- Solid clinical experience performing nursing assistant duties in hospital or healthcare setting
- On a routine and recurring basis, will explain related tasks to other employees and therapist/technician students
- Provides oxygen to be used during transportation of patients
- Replace all respiratory care equipment used throughout the hospital on a daily basis
- Replace oxygen and other compressed gas cylinders used for respiratory care for children, teenagers, adults and geriatric patients
- High school diploma preferably with 6 months of hospital experience
Care Assistant Job Description
- Manage specific IMDS processes, verbal complaints, liability claims and complex pass backs to satisfactory conclusion
- Challenge appropriately inconsistent adherence with IMDS process and policy
- Performs coordinative duties for healthcare team for discharge planning and facilitation
- Manage outbound calls, depending upon volume
- Gastrostomy
- PEG Meds and PEG Feed
- Assist in transporting residents to/from other rooms
- Assist with clerical work, , copying, filing, answering telephones appropriately, and delivering messages
- Assure clean, safe work/patient area and assist with maintenance of same
- Change bed linens routinely and when needed
- Knowledge of third party insurance authorization requirements, preferred
- Experience using case management and/or third party billing applications, preferred
- Focus on premier patient care
- Prior acute care experience in a hospital setting Highly Preferred
- Current California Certified Nurses Assistant (CNA)
- Basic Cardiac Life Support card.(BLS)
Care Assistant Job Description
- Demonstrate a working knowledge of current federal, state and local regulations and internal policies and procedures as they pertain to resident care and rights
- Exhibit a collaborative spirit and flexibility
- Fill water pitchers and distribute to residents scheduled to receive them
- Go on resident transports to the hospital and to doctor's appointments as needed
- Maintain resident drawers and closets, and rooms in a clean, orderly fashion
- Maintain confidentiality in regards to resident information and records
- Must possess willingness to learn infection control and standard precautions and the ability to apply same to essential job functions
- Serve food trays to residents and may assist with feeding as necessary
- The incumbent is a member of the healthcare team who is accountable for patient care supportive services for a unit(s) under the direct supervision of a Registered Nurse
- Performs, monitors, reports and documents all clinical activities within scope of practice
- Want to work in a team that is the first face to face point of contact for students to engage with
- Provides outstanding customer service so customers are welcomed, feel valued and understood, and ensures that customers are enrolled through the Customer Contact Centre
- Provides effective linkage and connection for customers to services and respond to customer feedback to ensure students are engaged, connected to events and to appropriate learning and support services
- Ensures customer feedback is gained and then responded to in an appropriate and timely manner to improve services
- Contributes to success of TAFE NSW North Coast RTO Events
- Necessary ability to work independently as needed with a high degree of detail orientation and have the ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities