SR CERTIFIED NURSING ASST / ACTIVITIES

Requisition No: 823648 

Agency: Veterans Affairs

Working Title: SR CERTIFIED NURSING ASST / ACTIVITIES

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 50556124 

Salary:  $35,360.00 

Posting Closing Date: 05/12/2024 

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Requisition # 823648

SENIOR CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT / ACTIVITIES (MULTIPLE POSITIONS)

FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS' AFFAIRS

Alwyn C. Cashe State Veterans' Nursing Home

Orlando, Orange County, FL.

Annual Starting Salary: $35,360.00

Paid Bi-Weekly

The Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs is an agency dedicated to serving those who served U.S.  We are seeking motivated, dynamic SCNAs to join our facility.  Our facility boasts a loyal team of long-term employees and a fantastic work culture.

EXCELLENT EMPLOYEE BENEFITS (Benefits are prepaid): 

• Competitive Wage Scale
• Choice of Insurance plans - HMO or PPO
• Health Insurance - Individual Plan $50 per MONTH
• Health Insurance - Family Plan $180 per MONTH
• Spouse Program: If you and your spouse work full-time for the State of Florida, the cost of your family health insurance premiums will be at a reduced rate. Both spouses must be members of the same insurance plan.
• Life, Dental, Vision and much more offered
• The Florida Retirement System (FRS) offers two retirement plans - the Investment Plan and the Pension Plan
• The Florida Deferred Compensation Plan is a 457b pre-tax retirement program.
• Vacation Leave
• Sick Leave
• Nine paid holidays
• Tuition Waiver Program for full time employees- up to 6 credit hours each semester

Education and employment history must be verifiable.  Please attach any credentials you claim (degrees, certifications, etc.) to your application.

*Other vacant SCNA/Activities positions (shifts), including OPS (Temporary), may be filled from this advertisement within six (6) months of the closing date. *

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must have current Florida Certified Nursing Assistant License
• Must be willing and able to work some weekends, evenings, and holidays.
• Must be willing and able to drive a 15-passenger facility van.
• Must have a valid Florida driver’s license.
• Must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Must be able to communicate effectively in English: reading, writing, speaking, and understanding.
• Must have basic computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Outlook, Word)
• Successful completion of the due diligence process to include, but not limited to, a Level II background check and drug test.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience in a long-term care environment with a geriatric population in the activities department.
• Current CPR card
• High school diploma or G.E.D.

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

The incumbent of the Senior Certified Nursing Assistant (SCNA) / Activities position will ‎be responsible for ensuring that the residents Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), daily ‎assignments and an ongoing program of activities in accordance with the ‎comprehensive assessment are completed during the shift while identifying and ‎resolving needs.  Reports directly to the Activities Director (Therapy Aide Supervisor).‎

• Assist with developing and implementing an activities program, which ‎maintains or improves physical, mental, and social well-being with a varied work schedule that may ‎include weekend, evenings, and holidays‎.
• Assist with developing activities plan for each resident in accordance with the inter-‎disciplinary team process. 
• Responsible for the documentation of that plan in the resident’s medical record
• Responsible for initial interview with new residents and input of resident data into the ‎medical record
• Performing duties of the Activities Director when the Activities Director is unavailable.
• Responsible for maintaining the activity space and requesting equipment and ‎supplies for the program and ensuring resident safety for individual and/or group ‎activities‎.
• Provide necessary assistance by giving residents the following Activities of ‎Daily Living nursing care: oral hygiene, ‎bathing, dressing, and grooming, hair and nail ‎care, shaving, toileting, assistance with meals, nourishments and transportation ‎to ‎meal service areas, and mobility. 
• Routinely observe, identify, and report resident ‎concerns/needs to supervisor.
• Provide ‎escort to resident appointments when required. ‎
• Complete assignments timely, completely, and accurately.
• Accept assigned ‎duties in a ‎cooperative manner‎.
• Perform restorative nursing measures.
• Document in the nursing assistant notes the care ‎and treatment provided to the resident ‎and the response or lack of response to care ‎provided.
• Perform simple nursing measures such as but not limited to applying splints and ‎positioning devices, making occupied and ‎unoccupied beds, changing linens, taking vital ‎signs, weights, recording intake and output, etc.
• Follow established performance ‎‎standards and perform duties according to nursing service policies and procedures. ‎
• Review care plans and perform nursing ‎care as outlined.
• Participate in the development ‎of an individualized plan of care of assigned residents. ‎
• Respond to residents' requests/needs and assure residents have call lights at hand and ‎answer call lights promptly.
• Observe all facility safety, infection control policies and procedures‎.
• Complete required documentation.
• Consistently working cooperatively with resident, ‎resident’s representatives, facility staff, physicians, consultants, and ancillary service ‎providers.
• Maintain confidentiality of resident.
• Attending all in-service program classes as assigned and complete assignment.
• ‎Participate in interdisciplinary team and other facility meetings as assigned.
• Follow ‎Residents Rights’ policies at all times.
• Assume accountability for data contained in the ‎employees’ handbook.
• Performs all other duties as ‎assigned.

 This position is in the Career Service system.

The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.

VETERANS’ PREFERENCE.  Pursuant to Chapter 295, Florida Statutes, candidates eligible for Veterans’ Preference will receive preference in employment for Career Service vacancies and are encouraged to apply.  Certain service members may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements.  Candidates claiming Veterans’ Preference must attach supporting documentation with each submission that includes character of service (for example, DD Form 214 Member Copy #4) along with any other documentation as required by Rule 55A-7, Florida Administrative Code.  Veterans’ Preference documentation requirements are available by clicking here.  All documentation is due by the close of the vacancy announcement.