CNA – Pediatric Nurse Technician

$19.75 - $24.00 / hour

• Our residents range from young children to young adults up to age 21, and many need total care with transfers, positioning, and personal care.
• Most depend on medical technology, such as ventilators, trachs, and feeding tubes.
• Many are non-verbal. You’ll learn each child’s routines and cues.
• This is long-term residential care. Many residents live with us for years.
• The work is physically and emotionally demanding and takes patience, steadiness, and calm under pressure.

Every new Nurse Technician completes classroom training followed by several weeks of hands-on floor training and shadowing before working independently.

Shifts:

• Day: 7:00 a.m.–7:30 p.m.
• Night: 7:00 p.m.–7:30 a.m.
• 8 hour option: 1:30am - 9:30am

 

Responsibilities

 

What You’ll Do as a CNA / Pediatric Nurse Technician:

• Assist with bathing, dressing, toileting, positioning, mobility, and other daily living activities
• Complete safe transfers using lifts, wheelchairs, and other assistive equipment
• Provide feeding assistance according to individual care plans
• Take vital signs and perform clinical support duties after training and competency validation
• Assist with range-of-motion activities and ostomy care within the position’s approved scope
• Observe residents closely and promptly report changes to the supervising nurse
• Document care, meals, and activities in the medical record
• Support activities that promote physical, emotional, developmental, and social well-being
• Work with nursing, respiratory, therapy, and activities team members
• Accompany residents to appointments when assigned

Qualifications

 

Required:

• High school diploma or GED
• At least 21 years of age
• Current CPR and First Aid certification
• Current, valid driver’s license
• Ability to lift, push, pull, or carry up to 35 pounds as required by the position
• Patience, empathy, and comfort caring for medically complex children and young adults
• This position requires regular interaction with residents, coworkers, visitors, and/or supervisors. In order to ensure a safe work environment for residents, coworkers, visitors, and/or supervisors of the Company, and to permit unfettered communication between the employee and those residents, coworkers, visitors, and supervision, this position requires that the employee be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language at an intermediate or more advanced level.

Preferred:

• CNA / Nursing Assistant certification
• Experience in healthcare, direct support, or a related setting

WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. Applicants and employees are considered for positions and are evaluated without regard to mental or physical disability, race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status or any other protected Federal, State/Province or Local status unrelated to the performance of the work involved.