This position is responsible for supervising resident assistants and coordinating personal care provided to residents. The employee must be able to perform all duties of a resident assistant including protective oversight of residents, hospitality, customer service, etc. Incumbent employee will also assist with laundry, food service, activities, and housekeeping as needed.

Betty Simonton
bettys@htop.org
970.243.3333

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Employee must have regular attendance/punctuality, be able to cooperate with others, and be completely honest. Other assigned duties include:
1. Preparing work schedules, evaluations, disciplinary actions, hiring paperwork, and terminations.
2. Talking to doctors and family members to coordinate personal care plan, medication administration, etc.
3. Providing general oversight and supervision to Resident Assistants, including coordinating duties on the assigned shift.
4. Training new staff on department policies and procedures.
5. Facilitating team meetings.
6. Taking the lead in emergency situations.
7. Administer medications and document as necessary.
8. Maintaining personal care competencies.
9. Fulfilling, promoting, and leading others in carrying out the philosophy of The Commons Pledge.
10. Other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
This position is responsible for supervising resident assistants. Supervision includes assigning and scheduling work, training personnel, appraising work performance, as well as interviewing and hiring.

QUALIFICATIONS To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and /or ability required.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE
High school diploma or general education degree (GED) and three to six months related experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Experience must include demonstrated leadership, problem solving, conflict resolution skills, as well as the ability to perform the essential duties of a resident assistant.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS PREFERRED:
Education: QMAP, First Aide/CPR; or current Certified Nurses Aide (C.N.A.)
Experience: 1 year or more consecutive experience in a supervisory position; experience with scheduling, payroll, and training new employees.
Special Skills: 1 year or more hospice related experience; 3 months or more experience in a geriatric setting; proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Outlook, etc.

LANGUAGE SKILLS
Must be able to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, as well as Hilltop and program specific policies and procedures. Must be able to write routine documentation as required. Must be able to verbally communicate effectively with clients and co-workers.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
Must be able to add and subtract two digit numbers, and to multiply and divide by 10’s and 100’s. Must be able to perform these operations using units of American money, weight measurements, volume measurement, and distance. Must be able to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

REASONING ABILITY
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situation where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
• CPR Certificate/First Aid Certificate
• Colorado Driver’s License
• Medication Administration Certification

CLEARANCES
The following background checks are conducted by Hilltop Community Resources:
• Criminal background
• Annual TB Test

EXPOSURE CATEGORY: [ 2 ]
1) - Job tasks involve exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissue.
2) - Job tasks involve no exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissue, but employment may require unplanned category 1 exposure.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Mobility:
• Must be able to stand 10% of the time; sit 20% of the time; walk 70% of the time.
• Climbing (ascends or descends ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, etc., using feet and legs and/or hands and arms).
• Balancing (maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, crouching, or running on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces).
• Stooping (bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist).
• Kneeling (bending legs at knees to come to rest on knee or knees).
• Crouching (bending body downward and forward by bending legs and spine).
• Reaching (extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction).

Dexterity:
• Handling (seizing, holding, grasping, turning or otherwise working with hand or hands).
• Fingering (picking, pinching, or otherwise working primarily with fingers).
• Feeling (perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture, by touching with skin, particularly that of the fingertips).

Lifting:
• Must be able to exert up to 50 pounds of force to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects.

Communication:
• Must be able to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word. Must be able to clearly communicate with others by way of the English language.

Hearing:
• Must be able to perceive the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Must be able to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.

Taste/Smell:
• Must be able to distinguish, with a degree of accuracy, differences or similarities in intensity or quality of flavors and/or odors, or recognize particular flavors and/or odors, using the tongue and/or nose.

Vision: Must have the following vision abilities:
• Close vision (clear at 20 inches or less).
• Far vision (clear at 20 feet or more).
• Depth perception (Three-dimensional vision. The ability to judge distances and spatial relationships so as to see objects where and as they actually are.)
• Ability to adjust focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus).
• Color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors).
• Field of vision (observing an area that can be seen up and down or right or left while eyes are fixed in a given point).

Physical effort:
• Medium work (moderate physical activity required by handling objects up to 50 pounds occasionally and/or up to 20 pounds frequently).

WORK ENVIRONMENT The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

Physical surroundings:
• Under normal circumstances 100% of time is spent indoors.
• The noise level is usually moderate.