The Care Attendant provides direct assistance to residents with daily living activities, including personal care, dining support, and light housekeeping. They are responsible for maintaining a clean and orderly environment while ensuring the safety and well-being of residents across assisted living, skilled nursing, and memory care units.
Requirements summary
Candidates must possess a high school diploma or equivalent and demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively in English. A genuine sense of compassion and patience for working with senior adults is required for this role.
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Job description
We Are Inspired to Serve.
Join us!
Making a difference in the lives of others – that’s what working at Covenant Living is all about.
Our healthcare professionals have the opportunity each and every day to make a difference in the lives of older adults.
From improving our residents’ quality of life, to creating peace of mind for them and their families, our team members know that as a part of our community, they are changing lives.
Covenant Living, the nation’s sixth-largest nonprofit senior living provider, is seeking qualified candidates for Care Attendants to help in fulfilling our common purpose: to create joy and peace of mind for our residents and their families by creating a better way of life.
Join our organization, where teamwork, respect, and service is part of our everyday environment and build your health care career in a supportive, faith-based community.
Positions are available in assisted living, skilled nursing and memory care.
In this role the Care Attendant Non Certified will: Give assistance to residents in areas of activities, dining services, light housekeeping, and routine activities of daily living.
Assist residents with daily activities.
Assist with laundry, bed making, light housekeeping and maintains residents’ room in a clean and orderly manner.
Assist dietary staff with serving meals in the dining room, ensuring residents’ attendance in dining room, and observes residents while eating.
Arrange for and deliver meal trays for room service as needed, returns trays to kitchen when meal is over.
Serve supplemental nourishment and snacks as needed.
Be cross trained to work in all levels of care so assistance can be given to residents in AL, SNF, or memory care.
The ideal candidate will have: High school graduate or equivalent.
Ability to communicate effectively (verbal and written, English) with residents and staff.
Genuine compassion and patience to senior adults. #NursingSupport Compensation Pay Range: $19.60 - $22.60 per hour Reasonable Pay Estimate A reasonable estimate of the pay range for this position is $19.60 - $22.60 per hour.
There are numerous factors taken into consideration in determining the actual offered rate of pay, including but not limited to: job-related qualifications, experience, skills, education, geographic location, and consideration of internal and external equity.
Benefits
Paid Time Off
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Medical insurance
Paid holidays
Disability insurance
Tuition assistance
Employee assistance program
Pet insurance
Scholarships
403(b) retirement plan
Auto insurance
Home insurance
Legal services
Employer match
Fitness center access
Employer paid group term life insurance
For full time employees, we offer a generous benefits package that includes: Medical, dental and vision insurance Employer paid group term life and disability Paid Time Off (PTO) & six paid holidays 403(b) with a 3% employer match Fitness center use at most facilities.
Various voluntary benefits: Life, AD&D Tuition assistance and scholarships Employee assistance program Legal services, home/auto insurance, discount purchasing program Pet Insurance For more information about Covenant Living and CovenantCare at Home, please visit www.covliving.org or www.covenantcareathome.org.
Covenant Living and CovenantCare Home Health and Hospice are equal opportunity employers.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances.
We believe we are a great place to work.
Covenant Living & CovenantCare at Home are faith-based Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) & Home Health organization.
From the establishment of our first community – Covenant Home of Chicago in 1886 – to becoming the fifth-largest not-for-profit CCRC sponsor in the LeadingAge Ziegler Top 150, our goal has been to provide outstanding care and services to senior adults.
We believe we are inspired to serve.
We create joy and peace of mind for residents and their families by providing a better way of life.
These are the standards of behavior we hold ourselves to in serving our residents.
Safety I learn & follow safety policies & procedures.
I immediately report unsafe conditions for staff, residents, & guests and fix when possible.
I protect residents, co-workers, & myself from unsafe conditions and practices by reporting unsafe conditions and fixing it or having it fixed.
Courtesy I smile & acknowledge everyone that I encounter.
I carry myself in a manner that projects positivity, approachability, & respectfulness.
I address the concerns of others by actively listening & seeking solutions.
Responsiveness I take initiative to respond to the needs of others in a timely manner to achieve resolution.
I anticipate the needs of others and respond in a timely manner.
I communicate to others who need to join me in responding to the needs of others.
I return phone calls within 24 hours.
I identify action steps and communicate them to all vested parties.
Image I ensure our environment is professional, welcoming, & clean.
I follow CL policies, procedures, & all regulations.
We believe in making a difference in other’s lives.
We have approximately 3,200 employees serving more than 5,000 residents in our nationwide family of continuing care retirement communities and home health.
Construction and development continues on several of our 14 campuses, ensuring ever more exciting opportunities for employees to serve residents.
