Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)

Description

Miravida Living is looking for AM, PM & NOC CNA's throughout our organization. Weekend staff welcome. Work every other weekend or every other weekend and add one day per pay period or 2. Work around your school, childcare and a second job. 

Discover the Miravida Difference 

Join the team and help shape our senior living community. Your work will contribute to a legacy of love and connection. Your journey with us will not only transform your life but also profoundly touch the lives of those around you. 

 Who We Are 

• ·Our History: In 1963, in the heart of Oshkosh, a special community took shape: Miravida Living, originally Lutheran Homes of Oshkosh. The journey began with a vision to create a senior living community overflowing with joy and avenues for fulfillment. 
• Our Campus: Miravida Living is home to a diverse array of living options, including 55+ Retirement Living at Carmel Residence and Simeanna Apartments; Assisted Living, Respite, and Memory Care at Gabriel’s Villa and Elijah’s Place; as well as Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation at Bethel Home, Eden Meadows, and our Green House Homes.
• Our Beliefs: Our daily contributions shape an environment where love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control are present every day for our teams and elders. When you join our team, you are united in this effort to create a community that embodies these virtues.
• Our Commitments: We believe every stage of life should be lived to the fullest and have made a commitment to our elders, thoughtfully designing opportunities and initiatives that enrich the mind, body, and spirit of our community members through six key areas:
  • Awaken: Faith and Reflection
  • Connect: Social Engagement
  • Contribute: Sharing and Mentoring
  • Discover: Intellectual Engagement
  • Explore: Environmental Experience
  • Strengthen: Moving and Nourishing

Who We Are Looking For 

Everyone on our team plays a crucial role in upholding our beliefs and commitments, and your contributions can significantly enhance our community's well-being. For this role, we are seeking a caring, dynamic Certified Nursing Assistant ready to bring their expertise and heart to our community. Within the Miravida Living community, you will: 

• Engage and Connect: Your interactions will make a profound difference in the lives of our residents, providing care that’s both healing and empowering.
• Lead and Inspire: As part of the team, you will be an example to peers, guiding them in providing top-notch care.
• Grow and Thrive: You will participate in a supportive environment that values your contributions and helps you to develop professionally.
• Embrace Inclusivity: As a team member, you will join a dedicated team that celebrates diversity and prioritizes inclusion in all aspects of our work.
• Well-being Priority: You will contribute to an environment that prioritizes not only the well-being of our residents but also yours.
• Meaningful Contributions: Your journey at Miravida Living is not just a job, but an opportunity to create meaningful connections in an environment of care and respect.

Requirements

Essential Functions

Your daily contributions are key to shaping an environment where love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control are discovered anew by both our team and the elders we serve.

Responsibilities

• Provides individualized attention, which encourages each resident’s ability to maintain or attain the highest practical physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being.
• Is knowledgeable of the individualized care plan for residents and provides support to the residents according to their care plan. Contributes to the care planning process providing the charge nurse or other care planning staff with specific information and observations of the residents’ needs and preferences.
• Attends to the individual needs of residents, which may include assistance with grooming, bathing, oral hygiene, feeding, incontinent care, toileting, colostomy care, prosthetic appliances, transferring, ambulation, range of motion, communicating or other needs in keeping with the individuals’ care requirements.
• Maintains the comfort, privacy, and dignity of residents in the delivery of services to them. Interacts with residents in a manner that displays warmth and promotes a caring environment.
• Fully understands all aspects of residents’ rights, including the right to be free of restraints and free of abuse. Is responsible for promptly reporting to the charge nurse or administrative staff incidents or evidence of resident abuse or violation of residents’ rights.
• Assists in maintaining a safe, neat and clean environment; reports environmental deficiencies to the charge nurse such as lighting or equipment problems.
• Protects the personal belongings of each resident, including eyeglasses, dentures, hearing aids, furnishings, jewelry, clothing and memorabilia. Promptly reports missing items according to established policy and participates in efforts to locate missing items.
• Observes residents for changes in condition or behavior and promptly reports these changes to appropriate licensed nursing personnel.
• Provides care that maintains each resident’s skin integrity to prevent pressure ulcers, skin tears and other damage by changing incontinent residents, turning, repositioning immobile residents and by applying moisturizers to fragile skin and other areas.
• Answers residents’ call bells promptly and courteously.
• Performs various tasks assigned by the charge nurse, including checking vital signs, weighing residents, applying creams/ointments and collecting specimens.
• Assists with orienting residents and their families to the nursing home on admission and to the unit when transfers occur.
• Lifts, moves and transports residents, using proper body mechanics or lifting devices for accident prevention.
• Communicates and interacts effectively and tactfully with the residents, visitors, families, peers and supervisors.
• Assists and escorts residents for appointments such as at the beauty shop or attending activities or church services. Participates in activities and functions as directed.
• Practices careful and efficient use of supplies and linen and follows established charge procedures for resident charge items.
• Completes certified nursing assistant records documenting care provided or other information in keeping with department policies.
• Performs all job responsibilities in accordance with prescribed safety and infection control procedures, including thorough hand washing, use of disposable gloves were indicated and proper disposal of soiled materials.
• Walks extensively to and from various locations of the unit while making rounds and transporting residents within the facility.
• Promotes a homelike environment for residents.
• Responds to inquiries relating to his or her area or to requests from residents, visitors and other personnel within given time frames and established policy.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has no supervisory responsibilities. 

Physical Expectations

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear.

This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift or move objects and patients weighing over 50 pounds. 

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Position Type/Expected Hours:

• Full or part-time position with rotating shifts, including holidays and inclement weather. 
• No travel expected.

Required Education and Experience

• 16 years of age
• Federally certified as a Nursing Assistant in the State of Wisconsin or graduate of a Nursing Assistant class who will take the Federal test within 120 days of class.

AAP/EEO Statement

It is the policy of Miravida Living to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Miravida Living will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. 

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.