RA - Resident Assistant

Starting salary $17.25 - 20.53

Salary is based on years of experience!

Sign-on bonus up to $2000

Shift and Weekend Differentials!

Looking for a team where you can bring your passion, strengths and your best self each day?

Our employees work as one team and aspire to deliver a personalized experience to our residents through collaboration and knowledge sharing of their expertise. We are looking for candidates at Lake Forest Place that like to lead by example creating a positive work environment and living community experience that inspires wellness, independence, joy and security for our residents and families.

We truly believe our people are our greatest asset at Lake Forest Place which has led our team members to consistently rate us as a great workplace in confidential engagement surveys and earning its excellent reputation today. We are more than just a career choice - join a community where you will be appreciated and given opportunities to grow your career and make a difference!

Benefits:

• Health Insurance: Medical PPO Plans
• Dental insurance. HMO and PPO plans
• Vision plan
• Long-term and short-term Disability plan
• Employee wellness program with medical benefit deduction incentives and cash bonuses!
• Confidential employee assistance program
• Generous Paid Time Off/PTO plan. It is a plan that rolls over year to year.
• Employee lounges and meal discount program.
• 403(b) retirement plan with employer match
• Scholarship programs including Tuition reimbursement
• Citizenship Funding Program
• On-site Fitness Centers staffed with certified personal trainers
• Shift and Weekend Differentials for eligible positions

Summary/Responsibilities:

To provide direct and indirect care under supervision of the nurse to a selected group of residents. To assist and provide direction to residents with personal care which enables residents to maintain good personal hygiene, to carry out activities of daily living, to maintain good health and to participate in the activities of the community. Will maintain a positive participant in the daily operations of Presbyterian Homes.

Education: High School diploma or equivalent; Certified Nurses Assistant certificate a plus. Participates in continuing education in-service training sessions.

Experience: Work experience of one year with excellent attendance record.

Qualifications: Must be 18 years of age or older, tactful, courteous, diplomatic and exercise good judgment in all contacts with the public, demonstrated ability to perform assigned duties with minimal supervision, ability to work as a team member, ability to document activities with forms provided. Ability to speak, read, write and comprehend English. Ability to do simple arithmetic. Good communication skills. Able to use computer. CPR certified.

About us

Presbyterian Homes is an independent, not-for-profit senior living care organization of Life Planning Communities offering peace of mind through full continuum of care - independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing and memory care. We welcome people from all backgrounds at our family of communities that has served the Chicago, Illinois area since 1904. Presbyterian Homes proudly serves older adults at Westminster Place and Ten Twenty Grove in Evanston, Lake Forest Place in Lake Forest, and The Moorings in Arlington Heights.

All Presbyterian Homes employees are required to be Up-to-Date (as defined by the CDC) with all recommended COVID-19 vaccination doses (including booster dose(s)), when eligible, unless a reasonable accommodation is requested in writing and approved. As a condition of employment, new hires are required prior to the first day of work to provide documented proof to Human Resources of being Up-to-Date or scheduled to be Up-to-Date within 30 days of becoming eligible or submit a completed Request for Accommodation form (for a medical or religious exemption to the COVID-19 vaccination requirement, with supporting documentation, where applicable) to Human Resources for consideration. As needed, Human Resources will engage the candidate in an interactive process to determine what, if any, reasonable accommodations might be available in accordance with applicable laws.

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