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• Competitive wages and benefits.
• Night and weekend differentials.
• $500 sign-on bonus.
• Team-centered philosophy of care.
• Immediate openings for CNAs

About Totally Kids Rehabilitation Hospital

• Distinctive campus devoted 100% to children
• National leader in providing rehabilitation and habilitation programs with a family-centered emphasis
• Consistently awarded the Gold Seal of Approval by the Joint Commission
• Trusted destination of choice for physicians and parents for more than 50 years.

JOB SUMMARY

The Direct Care Staff (DCS) under the direction of the Qualified Intellectual Disabilities Professional (QIDP), Registered Nurse (RN) and/or Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) provides direct and indirect client care activities. The DCS assists clients with activities of daily living, provides personal care, motivates and assists clients in developing and utilizing their maximum potential for self-care, comfort and assists in the maintenance of a safe and clean environment for an assigned group of clients.

The DCS duties include assisting clients with bathing, dressing, feeding, toileting, repositioning in bed, walking, social activities; obtaining vital signs, height and weight; transports clients using wheelchairs and/or movable beds in consideration of client age, gender, culture and stated preferences, maintaining client privacy and respect at all times. The DCS assists with admission, transfer, or discharge activities as directed by QIDP, RN and/or LVN.

It is expected that the employee will demonstrate behavior consistent with the Core Values. The employee shall support the organization strategic plan, the goals and direction of the quality assurance performance improvement process, and activities.

SPECIFIC FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITY:

Activities of Daily Living

• Assists with bathing and dressing
• Assists in bowel and bladder activities such as use of bedpans, urinals, or commodes
• Keeps incontinent clients clean
• Assists with personal and dental hygiene
• Ensures clients are dressed properly
• Provides general nursing care such as proper positioning, lifting and turning, and ambulating the clients
• Prepares clients for meals; serves and removes food trays and assists with feeding clients, if applicable
• Engages clients with a positive and friendly demeanor, while providing support through social interaction at scheduled and unscheduled activities

Procedures, Documentation, and Reporting:

• Measures and records vital signs (temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation)
• Measures and records height and weight
• Monitors and records bowel and bladder as directed by QIDP, RN and/or LVN
• Provides and discards bedpans, urinals, and emesis basins
• Recognizes and reports changes in client’s condition to nurse
• Ensures that clients’ skin is kept clean and dry and reports reddened areas or skin breakdown to nurse
• Provides information to oncoming shift to ensure continuity of care
• Participates in and contributes to interdisciplinary care conferences

Client Care Area

• Lifts and turns with proper and safe body mechanics
• Follows and ensures infection control policies and guidelines are followed for assigned clients/rooms.
• Transports and accompanies clients to and from various departments, as directed
• Maintains neatness and order in the client unit, including making the bed and necessary linen changes. Disposes of trash and linen properly
• Assists in placing and removing protective devices such as bedside rails as ordered

Support to Licensed Nursing Staff

• Assists nurse with admitting, transferring, and discharging clients
• Receives and accurately inventories and secures client belongings as appropriate
• Assists nurse in giving treatments and examining clients
• Assists with restorative and rehabilitation care with proper instruction and supervision
• Notifies appropriate licensed personnel when client complains of pain or pain is suspected
• Answers call bells and makes rounds on assigned clients

MISSION STATEMENT: Mountain View Child Care, Inc. is dedicated to enriching the health and quality of life of children with medical and developmental needs and who benefit from habilitation and rehabilitation services and the supportive use of technology. We are committed to meeting their medical, physical, developmental, social, psychological and spiritual needs through a blend of tenderness and expertise.

CORE VALUES (“iHeart”)

Integrity: We, the staff of Mountain View Child Care, Inc., (MVCC), choose to achieve wholeness and excellence, in our work by meeting high professional standards and codes of ethics, and we choose to be trustworthy in all our dealings. Likewise, we invite our colleagues and others who represent MVCC to personally strive to meet our high standards. As a guide toward maintaining the integrity of our mission and our daily actions, we align ourselves with the following organization values:

Honesty: We foster transparent, honest communication between patients, families, and employees to create a climate of openness in which all persons related to this organization treat one another with trustworthiness and fairness.

Excellence: We work at the highest level of sustained performance, with a commitment to continuous improvement.

Accountability: We accept responsibility for the ethical and reliable performance of our jobs consistent with industry standards. We are committed to prudent care of our patients and their families and prudence in business practices.

Respect: We treat all individuals with compassion, dignity and courtesy.

Teamwork: We work together to achieve our mission and goals in a cooperative, respectful, open environment.

STRATEGIC VISION:

Care & Customers: To achieve the best possible results for our patients by working together to improve patient well-being through our Patient & Family Centered Care model.

Learning & Growth: To promote a culture of personal and professional growth, thus achieving our strategic objectives by increasing the worth of the individual and the organization.

Systems & Reliability: To achieve patient safety by continuously creating or refining processes that increase quality and decrease variability within a high reliability environment.

Business & Stewardship: To prudently extend service lines within all MVCC brands to mutually improve quality care, increase business value, and sustain MVCC’s long-term mission.

EXPECTATION FOR ALL EMPLOYEES:

To provide service excellence and innovation in the care of patients, the training of health professionals and the creation and sharing of health knowledge. This organization exists to serve others through the expression of the mission, core values, and strategic vision stated above.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Current Certified Nursing Assistant certification issued by the California Department of Public Health preferred
• Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required
• Minimum of one year of DCS experience in intermediate care facility preferred
• Able to lift thirty (30) pounds without assistance
• Must be able to read client information, posted materials and other printed material
• Knowledge of basic nursing procedures and charting as applicable to job
• Must possess good work ethics and a professional image at all times
• Knowledge of CMS conditions of participation, CDPH state regulations, CCS, and TJC (hospital, nursing care center, and laboratory) accreditation requirements as applicable to job
• Working knowledge of computer and software applications as applicable to job
• Possess strong communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills
• Works responsibly in a team environment as well as independently
• Manages confidential information effectively and appropriately

KNOWLEDGE OF HEALTH CARE ENVIRONMENT:

Practice Knowledge

• Demonstrates knowledge of current practice and the roles and functions of client care team members as applicable to job
• Ensures compliance with the state and federal regulatory agency standards, and policies of the organization
• Adheres to professional association standards of practice as applicable to job

Patient Safety/Risk Management

• Supports the development of an organization-wide patient safety program
• Maintains and ensures patient confidentiality at all times.

Performance Improvement/Outcome Measurement

• Knowledge of the organization’s quality assurance performance improvement (QAPI) program

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT:

Effective Communication

• Demonstrates effective interpersonal communication skills
• Provides communications that is clear and effective.
• Uses positive verbal/nonverbal communications

Relationship Management

• Builds collaborative relationships in the organization
• Exhibits effective conflict resolution skills

PROFESSIONALISM:

Personally and Professionally Accountable

• Holds self and others accountable for mutual professional expectations and outcomes
• Adheres to the organization’s professional attire (dress code) policy

• Treats our customers’ with respect and courtesy. Keeping their information confidential.
• Demonstrates a behavior which is always willing to assist
• Complies with the organization’s code of conduct and compliance standards
• Maintains proper use of timekeeping system to record time

Career Planner

• Maintains professional license and/or certification as applicable to job
• Acts on feedback about personal strengths and weaknesses
• Completes annual organization education requirements

Trustworthy

• Prudent in showing care for staff organization
• Consistently reliable, truthful and honest
• Ability to hear and convey important and difficult information up and down the organization
• Maintains a level of competency to provide reliable positive outcomes in areas of responsibility

On-the-job time is spent in the following physical activities

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This job requires that weight be lifted or force be exerted. Show how much and how often by checking the appropriate boxes below.

This job may have special vision requirements. Check all that apply.

• Close Vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less)
• Distance Vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more)
• Color Vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors)
• Peripheral Vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point)
• Depth Perception (three-dimensional vision; ability to judge distances and spatial l relationships)
• Ability to Adjust Focus (ability to adjust eye to bring an object into sharp focus)
• No Special Vision Requirements

Note: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

This job requires exposure to the following environmental conditions.

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The typical noise level for the work environment is:

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Hearing:

xAbility to hear alarms on equipment

xAbility to hear patient call

xAbility to hear instructions from physician/department staff

REPETITIVE MOTION ACTIONS