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JOB TITLE: Resident Care Assistant
JOB SUMMARY: The resident care assistant will provide personal care services, assistance, support, and supervision to residents. The resident care assistant also will provide services to residents and assist with activities and food service.
POSITION REPORTS TO: Resident Care Coordinator
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
>> Assist residents with daily grooming.
>> Assist residents with bathing.
>> Assist residents with dressing as needed.
>> Assist in the development and updating of each resident’s ADL plan.
>> Do personal laundry for residents weekly or as required.
>> Assure residents are in the dining room for mealtimes.
>> Monitor the amount of food eaten.
>> Serve residents’ meals from the kitchen.
>> Assure residents get to appointments or activities.
>> Provide one-on-one support/visitation to assigned residents.
>> Encourage and/or remind residents to participate in activities.
>> Encourage socialization among residents.
>> Communicate all pertinent information to other staff.
>> Work cooperatively with other staff.
>> Treat all residents with dignity and respect.
>> Responding to all PERS alarms within appropriate time frames (3 min)
QUALIFICATIONS: Strong team approach to working with other staff. Ability to interact courteously and tactfully with staff, residents, family members, visitors, vendors, and the general public.
EDUCATION: Must possess a high school diploma or equivalent with reading, comprehension, and writing ability at 12th-grade level or higher.
EXPERIENCE: Experience or interest in working with older adults.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Performing duties of this job requires lifting, bending, walking, and standing. Must be able to occasionally lift loads of 50 pounds without assistance and the ability to sit, talk, and hear is required. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
WORKING CONDITIONS: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The majority of essential job duties are performed indoors as well as in residential areas where universal precautions apply. Employees may be exposed to indoor temperature fluctuations.
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About Riverside Senior Living
Riverside Senior Living is a senior living community in Decatur Alabama that is dedicated to meeting the needs of our residents and their families by ensuring confidence, compassion, enrichment and respect.
What makes Riverside Senior Living different? Many things, but the difference everyone says is the most important is that it’s like FAMILY here.
You can feel it and see it as soon as you walk through the front door. Riverside Senior Living is locally owned and operated by June & Steven Hall.
Call us at (256) 350-4545 to arrange a tour or use our online inquiry form and we will follow up with you promptly.
Experience the Riverside Difference!
Covid-19 Update February 2021
Riverside Senior Living continues its dedication and focus towards the safety, security, and health of all our residents and staff.
These are exceptionally challenging times and yet with the outstanding work of our staff, and the cooperation of our residents, we continue to provide a safe community for all.
We’re very pleased to be able to say that the residents and staff at Riverside Senior Living were the first in Alabama to start the Covid-19 vaccination process and protocols.
These are difficult times, no doubt, and we will continue to follow all county, state, and federal guidelines related to Covid-19.
We also monitor the CDC website daily for news, updates, recommendations, and guidelines related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
For more information please contact us at (256) 350-4545.
Residents at a senior center in Decatur received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Read more on The Decatur Daily.
Riverside Senior Living resident Rose Miller received her first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday and was grateful to get it.
“This was exciting. I haven’t been able to sleep, I’ve been so excited about getting it,” Miller said.
Miller, 92, was the first of 73 residents at Riverside to receive the vaccine Wednesday. She said being vaccinated against COVID-19 will provide her with a sense of security.
“I think I feel safe, you know, just even around here,” she said. “In case somebody else hasn’t been vaccinated, that I won’t be susceptible to getting it, so I’ll just be more at ease. Every day I wonder when I get up, do I feel alright?”
Donna and Bernard Malkmus were the second and third Riverside residents to receive COVID-19 vaccinations Wednesday.
Malkmus, 88, said prior to receiving the vaccine, she was worried about spreading the virus to others.
“I didn’t want to have the thought that I might be responsible for a family member or our extended family here (getting infected), because this place is family,” she said.
Malkmus said seeing loved ones less frequently due to COVID-19 restrictions has been hard. She and her husband moved into Riverside Senior Living in December 2019, shortly before the pandemic began. “That’s been tough, but they have done so much to try to make arrangements so we can see limited visitors. They’ve done so much to keep our morale up, keep us safe,” she said.
Miller, who has lived at Riverside Senior Living for about four years, said she didn’t have any reservations about receiving the vaccine. “I just wanted to get it,” she said.
All of Riverside’s 73 residents requested to receive their first of two vaccine doses Wednesday, according to activity director Lisa Burns. All employees who wanted the vaccine were also able to receive it. Burns said only about 5% of employees did not want to receive the vaccine.
Burns said all vaccine recipients were monitored for 15 minutes after receiving the shot. Payless Pharmacy provided Riverside Senior Living with acetaminophen for pain relief and epinephrine injectors in case a resident had an allergic reaction to the vaccine.
Burns said she’s glad that residents and most staff opted to receive the vaccine. Burns said the average age of residents is 85 to 87, and the community has two 101-year-old residents.
“I’m excited because I’ve seen the toll mentally that it has taken on our residents, not being able to see their families, not being able to get out, to go to lunch, to go to Walmart every week, to interact in such a way with the community,” Burns said. “We were very proud of our residents for wanting to take this step and be part of the solution.”
Source: Decatur Daily
Dear Riverside Staff,
Thank you so much for the loving care you provided to my Mother. All of you were so kind and helpful to her these past few months. It gave me great comfort to know she was living in such a wonderful environment. I consider all of you to be Angels.
Sincerely,
Amanda
June 20, 2020
It’s always a special day when Chef Jimmy shares a family recipe!
Q: Where did you get your inspiration to cook?
A: I always had an interest in cooking. It just came naturally. I never pursued it as a career until I was out of school several years and decided to just do what I love!
Q: Where did you first work as a cook?
My first job as a cook was at Burger King!
Q: What’s the favorite part of your job at Riverside Senior Living?
The favorite part of my job is my job. Putting a smile on a resident’s face is the best whether it’s a meal or something just for them to make them feel special.
Q: What does a typical day look like for you at Riverside?
I come in check on my staff and go over the menu for the day. I set up the coffee bar make sure that it is stocked up with fresh cookies, pastries, muffins or my newly famous smore treats. I walk the dining room and look at all the place settings. I check on lunch that’s being prepared. I make sure I taste everything before it goes to the residents. After lunch I will work on the next weeks menus, truck orders, and plan for special events. No two days are ever the same!
Q: What is your personal favorite thing to eat that you cook?
My favorite thing to eat that I cook is a steak because I’m very picky when it comes to my steak. I would rather cook my own.
Q: What special meals do you make for Riverside residents?
I like to add new items to the menu although we do have some Riverside staples that include the pot roast, meatloaf, fried chicken, and turkey wraps, which everyone loves!
Q: Where do you get your recipes?
My recipes and sources vary greatly. The ones close are from my grandmother. Some I have found online. If I do use one from online, or a book, I like to use them more for inspiration and add my own twist to make it my own.
Q: Do you watch any food shows on TV?
I enjoy most all food shows. Cut-Throat Kitchen, Diners, Dive-ins and Dives, Carnival Eats, Trisha’s Southern Kitchen, Paula Deen, Hells Kitchen, Restaurant Impossible are a few of my favorite shows.
Q: What do you do when you are not working?
When I’m not working? I’m probably hanging out with my kids or working on a project at home.
Dear June, Steve, Brenda, Lisa and all those that helped and took care of Mama for almost 7 years.
You were so special to her and she always referred to others as her “Riverside Family.”
We know these past years were the happiest she’d had in a long time.
Also, thanks again for letting us have her reception at Riverside.
Your generosity will always be a special memory for us.
You will forever be in our debt for the care and love you gave her ~ and us.
Love, Susan
1/14/2020
