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Nursing Assistant - Community Living Center - Dementia Care
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 36 days ago
About the Role
The Central Iowa Health Care System is recruiting for a Nursing Assistant position within the Community Living Center - CLC1 in Des Moines, Iowa. This positions requires knowledge that enables the Nursing Assistant to effectively provide care to a veteran population with widely diverse conditions/diagnoses, including caring for residents at end-of-life.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Duties include, but not limited to: Assisting medical personnel in the care or treatment of residents with diverse conditions/diagnoses.
- →Preparing, ambulating, transporting, and positioning residents with use of equipment.
- →Providing a variety of personal care including but not limited to bathing, shaving, feeding, incontinence care, trimming nails, range of motion, and ambulation of residents.
- →Performing a wide variety of duties aimed at increasing the comfort and spirit of the resident.
- →Encouraging residents and assisting in completing restorative programs.
- →Recognizing and reporting obvious changes in resident condition.
- →Delivering care to residents in a respectful, non-judgmental manner.
- →Maintaining resident privacy/confidentiality and residents rights to privacy/confidentiality.
- →Documenting resident information on flow sheets and Computerized Patient Records System (CPRS).
- →Providing resident information to the accountable LPN/RN for inclusion in the resident's plan of care.
- →Work Schedule: Days, with six 12 hour shifts 0730-2000 and one 8 hour shift 0730-1600 (bi-weekly); including weekends and holidays.
- →Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience.
- →Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.
- →Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination or evaluation.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required.
- ✓Training provided.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 122d7806-0212-4374-8b6c-513c8d486bc8
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