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SUMMARY The Resident Care Specialist performs multiple care duties that contribute to the health, well- being and quality of life for the Residents of the facility. Essential Duties and Responsibilities Provides services and care for residents and patients. • Assisting residents with activities of daily living such as transferring, turning and positioning, giving showers, dressing, grooming, feeding, toileting and ensuring residents are clean. • Obtaining vital signs and weights and monitoring food and liquid intake. • Delivering meal trays to residents, ensuring food is appropriate to the resident’s care plan, delivering alternate food selections when requested and providing a positive dining experience. • Escorting residents to participate in therapy sessions and activities. • Responding to resident and family needs respectfully and with a positive manner in all interactions. • Making daily rounds on assigned residents in accordance within established guidelines. • Accompanying residents with smoking privileges to designated smoking areas and supervising his or her smocking activity while there. • Reporting data in resident records consistently, accurately and in a timely manner. • Consistently and promptly reporting resident changes of condition. • Complying with procedures for infection prevention including, but not limited to, hand washing, TB and Hepatitis B requirements and bloodborne pathogen regulations. • Following safety rules and requirements including lift and transfer procedures, hazard communication, electrical safety, slips, trips and falls policies, use of personal protective equipment and elopement procedures. (Examples: Must safely operate mechanical lifts, sit stand lift, gate belt, and meal and line carts, adjust beds and use shower equipment and wheelchairs. • Safely fulfilling all work assignments. • Accepting assignments not part of his/her normal scheduled responsibility as needed. • Safeguarding residents’’ protected health information. • Providing other services such as cleaning wheelchairs and resident areas as assigned. QUALIFICATIONS · Minimum high school diploma or equivalent, or related experience and / or training. • Successful completion of State-approved Nursing Assistant Certification course or other education that meets state certification requirements. • Contributing to a true team environment by cooperating and working well with co-workers. • Completing education requirements on a timely basis. · Complying with work rule policies and procedures as well as state and federal law