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Benchmark at Blenheim Newport is hiring a Full Time CMT for 1st Shift & a Part Time CMT for 3rd Shift. CMT on 3rd Shift is Shift Diff eligible - Additional $1.50 per hour
Benchmark Senior Living is looking for a compassionate Certified Medication Technician to join our team! As a CMT, your main role will be to deliver care to our residents within a warm, comfortable, and home-like environment.
Responsibilities
- Communicates questions, concerns, and/or discrepancies related to medication administration to the Resident Care Director (RCD).
- Communicates any significant change of mental or physical status of resident to RCD.
- Documents supervision of self-administration in MAR.
- Documents/ notifies RCD of administration of prn meds.
- Responsible for documentation on prn meds and affect.
- Recognizes and can assist in the prevention of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
Requirements
- Must have state Medication Technician License and demonstrate competency in accordance with the state-approved protocol in drug administration
- Successfully complete medication technician competency review (as supervised by RN / RCD) quarterly
- CPR certification required or ability to obtain within six months of hire
- The Medication Technician must complete a state approved training course in drug administration and receive a certificate of satisfactory successful completion.
- Med-Techs will be evaluated on their competency by the RCD each quarter
- Must have current certification as a nursing assistant or have successfully completed the certified home health aide or homemaker/personal care homemaker training program
- High School education preferred
As a community associate at Benchmark, you will have access to a variety of benefits including, but not limited to, the following:
- 8 holidays & 3 floating holidays
- Discounted Meal Program
- Paid Training & Company-provided Uniforms
- Associate Referral Bonus Program
- Physical & Mental Health Wellness Programs
- 401k Retirement Plan with Company Match*
- Medical, Vision & Dental Benefits*
- Tuition Reimbursement Program*
- Vacation and Health & Wellness Paid Time Off*
*Eligibility may vary by employment status
Other facts
About Benchmark Senior Living
Transforming Lives Through Human Connection
Benchmark Senior Living was founded in 1997 by the company’s Chairman and CEO Tom Grape. Tom had long recognized the value of the consumer-centered approach to senior living and the many health and social benefits the philosophy offers residents.
Not only had Tom decided to make senior living his life’s work, but he did so with a commitment to set the industry standard – to be the benchmark.
Today, Benchmark is a leader in senior living throughout the Northeast, offering independent living, assisted living, mind and memory care, continuing care retirement communities and respite care options in 63 communities across seven states.
The company is the largest provider of mind and memory care in New England and has been at the forefront of this specialty throughout its history. Today, the company operates 11 communities dedicated to memory services and nearly all its communities offer personalized, needs-based mind and memory care.
Benchmark’s core values of Called to Care, Better Together and Be the Benchmark guide its mission of not only providing world-class care, but doing so in a way that keeps Benchmark focused on who and what matters most: our residents, their families and our associates.
What you'll do
- The Certified Medication Technician (CMT) is responsible for delivering care to residents and communicating any concerns related to medication administration. They must document medication administration and any significant changes in residents' status.
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