ALTRUS/WISTERIA GARDENS IS SEEKING PERSONAL CARE AIDES FOR 3PM-11PM SHIFT AND 11PM-7AM OVERNIGHT SHIFT. PLEASE APPLY ONLINE AT WWW.ALTRUS.US!

If you enjoy working with seniors and people who have disabilities, Altrus may be the place you want to call your work home. Altrus operates small personal care homes of fewer than 25 beds that provide a more personal touch than the larger facilities. Our focus is on making sure people living in our homes feel that they are really home. We hope you will consider being a part of our team as a Personal Care Aide.

The Personal Care Aide provides support in caring for residents under the direction of the Administrator. Care includes providing personal support (assistance with bathing, dressing, grooming and toileting), providing assistance with self-medication, taking and recording vital signs, providing emotional and social support to residents. Other duties may include some housekeeping, meal preparation, and escorting residents to appointments.

This position is located in Pooler, Georgia.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must be at least 18 years old;
• Must have some experience working with the elderly and/or disabled;
• Current TB Screening and Health Physical;
• CPR/First Aid certification;
• Fire Safety Certification a plus.

Required Skills Required Experience

SPECIFIC JOB KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar.
• Sales and Marketing — Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques and sales control systems.
• Guest Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, resources modeling, leadership technique, process methods and coordination of people and resources.
• Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Persuasion — Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
• Social Perceptiveness — Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
• Speaking — Talking to others to convey information
• Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Service Orientation — Actively looking for ways to help people.
• Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
• Coordination — Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
• Operations Analysis — Analyzing needs and product requirements to develop growth strategies.
• Management of Personnel Resources — Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people.
• Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
• Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Speech Clarity — The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
• Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Fluency of Ideas — The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
• Speech Recognition — The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
• Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
• Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
• Originality — The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
• Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• Grooming - All employees must maintain a neat, clean and well-groomed appearance per Reunion Tower Operating standards.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires full use of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Standing: Remaining upright on the feet, particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to-position.
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and making fine discriminations in sound.
• Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.
• The worker is required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned.
• The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.