As a Best of Hartford organization, a career at Duncaster in more than just a place to work.  Here, you can fulfill your passion for helping others and become part of something meaningful that pays you back in inspiring, heartfelt ways you may have never experienced.

Duncaster offers residents a plan for life with independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing services all on a beautiful campus-like setting.  Our residents share a bond of mutual respect with our staff that builds memorable and lasting relationships.

Overview

Under the direction of a licensed nurse, a certified nursing assistant performs daily personal care. Their primary responsibility is to ensure the residents’ quality of life by meeting their psychosocial needs in a safe and clean environment.  

Essential Functions

• Provides personal hygiene (bath, shower, shampoo, shaving, dressing, elimination needs, facial hair clipping, nail clipping, and other personal care).
• Performs safe and proper transfers and assists with ambulation by using assistive devices such as gait belts, walkers, wheelchairs, and mechanical lifts.
• Assists with restorative activities as identified in individual resident care plans. These may include ambulation, range of motion exercises, and assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs) designed to maintain or improve the residents’ functional abilities.
• Accurately weighs residents on admission or as assigned in a timely fashion. Takes vital signs and responsibly reports observations and changes in resident condition.
• Checks bedfast or incontinent residents at least every two hours to adjust position, toilet and provide incontinent care.
• Provides for physical comfort and safe environment. Follows all safety and security policies and procedures; performs all tasks to assure resident and personal safety and the protection of co-workers and facility property.
• Assures resident rooms are in a neat, orderly fashion while maintaining the resident’s right to privacy, i.e., neat closets, labeled personal items. Assures cleanliness of utility rooms, kitchens, staff rooms, shower rooms, linen rooms and other work areas.
• Promptly and courteously answers residents’ call bells and other requests for assistance; follows residents’ plan of care regarding out-of-bed schedule and respects residents’ choices for going back to bed unless otherwise ordered by Physician or Charge Nurse.
• Serves meal tray, assists feeding as appropriate, and provides nourishments to residents as assigned in a timely fashion.
• Completes documentation in EMR in an accurate and timely fashion.
• Communicates with nurse any changes in resident condition, particularly behaviors, bowel regime, and skin conditions.
• Follows all policies and procedures, annual mandatory in-services, required meetings, and all other conditions of employment are consistently met.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience

• High school diploma or equivalent is required.
• Current certification as a Certified Nursing Assistant in the State of Connecticut is required. 
• Experience with MatrixCare or other electronic medical records is preferred.
• Must be able to speak, read, and write the English language in an understandable manner.

Environment and Working Conditions

• Ability to focus on task needs and perform intellectual executive functions as related to documentation, charting, care device operations, etc.
• Ability to execute intellectual tasks and duties under conditions of high demand and distraction.
• Ability to complete the essential functions of the position with or with adaptive personal devices (e.g., hearing aid, corrective lenses).
• Ability to operate equipment and technology required for the position.
• Able to wear personal protective equipment.
• Must be able to communicate effectively.
• Able to assist with the evacuation of residents under emergency status to the best of their physical ability.
• Able to function independently with integrity and work effectively with residents, personnel, and support agencies.
• Able to constantly stand or walk to provide resident care and assistance.
• Able to frequently push and/or pull a force up to 30 pounds including residents weighing up to 250 pounds in wheelchairs and geri-chairs.  
• Able to reach overhead, bend, and carry or lift 50 pounds occasionally and 35 pounds frequently.
• Able to frequently transfer and support residents weighing up to 250 pounds while positioning, and transferring residents to beds, toilets wheelchairs, etc. Additional employees or mechanical assistance may be used.
• Able to frequently reposition residents weighing up to 250 pounds in bed for assistance with treatments, hygiene, and comfort needs. Additional employees or mechanical assistance may be used.

Hours

Full-time, 1st shift: 40 hours, 7:00am - 3:30pm, Every other weekend

Pay

$20.00-$24.00 per hour (based on years of experience)

What are the benefits?

Working in a Life Plan community will bring out the best in you.  As a member of our team, you'll have the opportunity to pursue a truly rewarding career path, with multiple exciting benefits, including the following:

• 401(k) with match and profit sharing
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance available the 1st of the month after hire
• Flexible spending accounts
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Employee assistance program
• Paid time off
• Tuition reimbursement
• 10% tuition discount on all degree and certificate programs at Charter Oak
• Free Access to our Aquatic & Fitness Center & to our beautiful walking trails throughout our campus
• Discount employee lunches
• Duncaster Spotlight Employee Recognition Program
• Referral bonuses
• Free parking
• Shoes for Crews - discounted safety shoes for all staff
• Yearly performance increases plus additional bonus opportunities
• Employee Appreciation Events held throughout the year by our own “Funcaster” Committee