Dignity Health Woodland Memorial Hospital is Yolo County’s largest health care provider serving the community since 1905. Woodland Memorial Hospital is a 108-bed acute care facility offering the most comprehensive range of health care services in Yolo County including inpatient and outpatient surgical services family birth center/labor and delivery emergency services home health services palliative care inpatient mental health services sleep disorders center and cancer care services. With strong ties to our community we believe in providing compassionate high-quality health care to you and your family close to home. Woodland Memorial Hospital is part of Dignity Health one of the nation’s largest health care systems with a 22-state network. For more information please visit our website here at www.dignityhealth.org/woodland.
Job Duties
1.1 Provide personal assistance for functionally and cognitively impaired patients: toileting (every 2 hours), ambulation, showering, grooming and transfer of participants.
1.2 Assist with food service and providing nutritional intake support as requested.
1.3 Document treatments and observations as requested.
1.4 Provide door to door transportation assistance for multiple participants throughout Yolo County including transfer support on and off center vehicles as requested.
1.5 Ensure that vehicle is well maintained for maximum safety to operate by performing daily inspections. Monitor and report all maintenance and repair needs.
1.6 Provide accurate and timely documentation of all transportation activities. Report all incidents in a timely manner.
1.7 Follow all traffic rules including no cell phone use while driving, no speeding or abrupt driving maneuvers.
1.8 Monitor for significant changes in participant's physical, cognitive and functional status and report observations to rehabilitation or nursing staff.
1.9 Assist participants on and off vehicles and drive center vans.
1.10 Ensure that all Adult Day Health Center laundry is laundered according to policy.
1.11 Be trained and willing to provide door to door transportation assistance for multiple participants throughout Yolo County including transfer support on and off center vehicles as requested.
1.12 Apply provided training entitled “Person Centered Care in Practice”. Be able to articulate and apply model components.
1.13 Offer assistance to participants for all needs in a timely and respectful manner and identify opportunities to provide additional support.
1.14 Communicate unresolved work-related problems using chain of command, consistently demonstrate effective problem solving skills and handle confidential information appropriately.
1.15 Demonstrate friendliness and courtesy to participants and co-workers. Model a service attitude toward others, take ownership in resolving problems and take the initiative to improve situations.
1.16 Contribute positively to the program, activity and therapy aide team to ensure team cohesiveness.
1.17 Attend and participate in appropriate in-service and department meetings as requested.
1.18 Perform other duties as requested in a professional and timely manner.
We offer the following benefits to support you and your family:
Nursing assistant skills
Effective and therapeutic individual and group activities
General knowledge of working with adults with disabilities cognitive impairment mental illness traumatic brain injury and developmental disabilities
High School diploma
Minimum of one-year experience working with elderly and disabled persons
BLSCPR; Valid California Class C Drivers License
Interact in a positive nature motivate and promote independence
Work cooperatively with participants volunteers staff and other agencies
Understand participants’ health problems
Perform adequately under stress when confronted with critical or unexpect
Experience providing personal care assistance such as toileting and showering preferred
Bilingual Spanish language preferred
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