OFH - Lead Caregiver

Creative and caring people, this job is for you! The Holgate Center is seeking Lead Caregivers for our senior living community in Portland, serving 100+ residents in our assisted living apartments. 

Holgate Center (HC) strives to provide a positive work environment that fosters collaboration, teamwork, and continuously achieving solid business results.

HC team members unite around a common cause of resident care and community support. This culture brings our team together and ensures everyone is working toward the same goal.

A team that works together with a collective goal to improve our residents care experience creates an internal culture of collaboration and mutual success. HC is passionate about making a positive, lasting impact on our residents and visitors, and so are our team members. 

Wage Range: $18.00-20.00 Depending on Experience 

Benefits:

• Co Company-subsidized medical and dental insurance.
• Voluntary vision, life, and AD&D insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Life Assistance Program (LAP)
• Sick time, vacation time, personal holiday, bereavement time
• 403(b) with Employer Match
• Flexible Spending Account
• Free Parking
• Referral Bonus Program
• Reduced Fare Bus Pass

Required Qualifications

• Minimum requirements include the following:
• At least 1.5 years of caregiving experience in long-term care.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Current CPR/BLS certification.
• Full-time employment status

Major Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides supportive services to nurse(s), RCC, RFC Director, and caregivers as needed/requested and performs duties as assigned.
• Oversee shower schedule, refrigerator cleaning schedule, assistive devices cleaning schedule, and to ensure daily adherence and documentation.
• Assist the facility nurse with the monthly weights and vitals clinic.
• Assists Med Techs with needed additional weights or vitals
• Assist with getting residents to and from scheduled podiatry clinic at the facility
• Assists other caregivers with care and daily tasks to ensure completion and quality.
• Assign additional tasks and distribute work to ensure equitable distribution of tasks for each floor and caregiver.
• Preform a weekly review of all shower sheets and ensure completion.
• Review shower sheets and update nurse of any documented skin issues observed. Bruising, abrasions, open skin areas, redness, rash, swelling, and signs of any skin break down or pressure ulcers. 
• Assists residents with or performs activities of daily living for residents in accordance with care plans and established policies and procedures.  
• Performs ongoing training in safe transfer procedures, gait belt training, and training of safe transfer to and from showers. 
• Responsible for alerting the nurse and/or RCC of care changes, in a prompt manner. 
• Assists the nurse with assigned IP (infection prevention) duties, such as setting up PPE carts, stocking PPE, and placing residents on observation and/or isolation.
• Keeps nurse and supervisor informed of factors that interfere with being able to perform the work as assigned (i.e. resident refusal, request no care from certain caregivers).
• Reports changes in a resident’s condition to the facility nurse and RCC.
• Responsible for regularly checking the schedule and reporting to shifts as assigned. Works with the Staffing Manager to coordinate scheduling changes and time off.
• Has knowledge of the activities department and is responsible for setting up basic activities (such as playing movies and setting up card games) in the absence of the activities director.
• Attends resident care conference meetings with the RCC and Administrator. 
• Participates in care plan creation and updates as requested/needed.