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** Memory Care Support Specialist - $1,000 Sign-On Bonus**
**Job Category****:** Clinical Services **Requisition Number****:** MEMOR024072 Showing 1 location **Job Details**
**Description**
***Memory Care Support Specialist***
***$1,000 Sign-on Bonus offered***
***Bring your heart to work! Caring people make the difference at American Senior Communities!***
***Compassion, Accountability, Relationships and Excellence*** are the core values for American Senior Communities. These words not only form an acronym for C.A.R.E., they are our guiding principles and create the framework for all our relationships with customers, team members and community at large.
American Senior Communities has proudly delivered patient centered care since the year 2000, with a long history of excellent outcomes. As partners in senior care, we are not just doing a job, but following a calling.
* Maintain, demonstrate, and forward a Person-Centered Approach to resident care within the Memory Care Center environment.
* Ensures the delivery of compassionate quality of care approach to residents.
* Insures each residents care needs are met and that quality of life is encouraged through the environment and the delivery of services by other disciplines at the facility.
* Acts as role model for the Center staff by protecting and promoting residents rights in all interactions with residents and families.
* Communicates the interdisciplinary care staff with residents, staff, and governmental agencies.
* Facilitates regular Center meetings.
* Maintains communication with other disciplines to evaluate resident responses to interventions, suggests alternative approaches, and revises and updates plans of care to reflect progress towards goals.
* Facilitates interdepartmental communication to meet residents needs.
* Assists in the admissions process to assess potential residents for admission to the Center. Informs and educates Centers staff regarding incoming admissions and helps prepare for residents arrival.
* Performs daily rounds of the Center to inspect the care environment, evaluate staffing needs, monitor procedural compliance, insure daily resident activities, evaluate staff interactions, and skill competencies.
* Acts promptly to resolve issues directly with staff members and / or reports relevant concerns to ED.
* Promptly reports identification of problems, significant changes in condition, injuries, and family dissatisfaction to nursing services and provides timely responses to inquiries of same.
* Assists team to effectively manage resident behavioral issues and interventions.
* Participates as a member of the interdisciplinary team in the development and maintenance of the social service and activity portions of the plan of care for each resident.
* Interacts with residents, family members, legal representatives, and surrogates to answer questions or resolve concerns. Makes prompt attempts to resolve all resident grievances, seeking consultation or assistance from other departments of administration as appropriate.
* Provides timely and appropriate charting, documentation, and record keeping.
* Develops residents daily, weekly, and monthly schedules.
* Manages, oversees, and participates in and delivers (when possible) activities at the Center.
* Observers and redirects staffs daily practices through one-on-one education of Alzheimer disease process, interpreting program policy and procedures, and by taking advantage of opportunities to teach at the Center.
* Provides regular dementia-specific in-services to Center and facility staff as needed and as directed by ASCs Director of Memory Care Support Services.
* Develops and maintains Family Resource Center on-site.
* Provides performance input for Memory Care staffs performance appraisals. Counsels/disciplines staff to correct performance issues which prohibit compliance and achievement of program objectives.
***Our commitment to our team members:***
* PayActiv Hourly employees have immediate access up to 50% of your earned pay
* Medical/Dental/Vision insurance available Plans starting as low as $20 a week
* Grow your clinical career thru the O2NE program that offers fully paid LPN or RN higher education and training
* Employees can access convenient telehealth services
* 401k
* PTO and holiday pay for full time staff
* Tuition assistance and up to $500 for certifications
* Generous Education Reimbursement for New Nursing Graduates
* RecogNation platform recognizes employees who embody our Culture of Care by doing the right thing at the right time, the right way for the right reason.
* Workforce Chaplains: Confidential, non-denomination resources available for employees and household family members of employees.
* Employee Referral Program get paid to refer a friend to join our team
***Requirements***
* Demonstrates C.A.R.E. values to our residents, family members, customers and staff.
* High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
* Bachelors degree in a related field required (psychology, social work, sociology, recreational therapy).
* Minimum of three years human services experience with two years working with dementia or Alzheimers care/patients preferred.
* Successful completion of a state approved or a Nursing Assistant training and competency evaluation program, or a CNA competency evaluation program approved by the State.
We are Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran and other protected categories.
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