Medical Assistant/CNA

POSITION SUMMARY

Medical Assistant/CNAs are responsible for the shift-by-shift supervision of the resident milieu and attending to resident's essential needs while on detoxification and residential protocols. Medical Assistant/CNAs are the core of our company with unparalleled access to residents requiring the greatest representation of our professionalism, values, and culture.

Reasonable Accommodations Statement

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Functions:

• Assisting with admissions of residents including orientation, intake assessment, urine screen, medication management, protocols and recurring assessments, secure search/storage of personal property.
• Assist Physicians While they are conducting rounds.
• Adherence to JCAHO and state resident care standards.
• Communicating with physician, entering physician orders, and following physician orders in overseeing resident medication management.
• Proficient documentation in KIPU Systems resident management software.
• Documenting residents' daily progress.
• Establishing a consistent presence and awareness of resident behavior.
• Enforcing policies and procedures.
• Maintaining cleanliness of facility.
• Facilitating program activities and maintaining resident schedules.
• Delegation of necessary tasks to behavioral health technicians and fulfilling behavioral health technicians' duties as needed.
• Recurring assessment, interaction, observation, and documentation of residents.
• Communicating thoroughly and accurately verbally and via shift notes to ensure continuity of high quality of care.
• Participation in shift change with LVN/BHT.
• Crisis Intervention.
• Conducting resident discharge/transition, returning resident personal items, logging, and following destruction of medication procedures, coordinating resident transportation and continuity of care with next level of care environment and/or facility.
• Completion of Survey Monkey shiftily check list.
• Accepting feedback and direction from the Physician
• Other duties as assigned by management.