Student: Resident Assistant
- Employer
- University of Kentucky
- Location
- Lexington, KY
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- Administrative Jobs
- Student Affairs, Residence Life
- Institution Type
- Four-Year Institution
Job Details
40 hours/week – 2 pm-10:30 pm/3:00 pm – 11:30 pm (weekends required)
Job SummaryYou must be a current UK student to apply to this position.
The primary purpose of the Resident Assistant is to assist residents while providing a high-quality, resident-focused care plan within the scope of Assisted Living, including the care for physical, social, mental, emotional and spiritual needs. This position is responsible for assisting the resident with activities of daily life.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Provides customer service in a mature and professional manner to resident, family members, coworkers and facility guests; includes telephone etiquette.
- Respects and follows resident’s rights. Demonstrates a compassionate and culturally sensitive manner. Treats residents and families with dignity and respect.
- Maintains resident, employee and facility confidentiality. Refrains from gossip.
- Demonstrates a positive image for the facility. Adheres to the highest principles of conduct through adherence to the code of ethics, the dress code, and legal concepts.
- Works with the Assisted Living Coordinator and staff to build relationships and strong communications with the residents and families in order to learn each residents’ physical, mental, social, emotional and spiritual needs.
- Provide assistance with Activities of Daily Living to meet the residents’ physical, mental, social, emotional and spiritual needs.
- Demonstrates ability to provide grooming needs regarding hair care, oral care, assistance with cosmetic and grooming needs as well as dressing, bathing and transporting residents per physician’s orders as well as walk bedside assistance and assistance with toileting.
- Demonstrates ability to assist in the delivery of resident activities that will provide entertainment, socialization, exercise, relaxation, creativity and fulfillment for residents.
- Participates in family conferences as needed.
- Demonstrates ability to communicate resident’s status and current needs as wells as to identify and report concerns.
- Provide customer service to the residents and visitors.
- Other duties as assigned.
SKILLS & ABILITIES
- Ability to identify and resolve safety concerns.
- Ability to maintain steady work pace.
- Ability to observe infection control procedures related to the
- Resident Assistant Department.
- Ability to perform job duties autonomously.
- Ability to cope with mental and emotional stress related to working with persons who are ill, disabled, elderly, and/or emotionally upset.
- Must be able to communicate in English.
- Detail oriented and possess ability to communicate verbally and in writing.
- Documentation, communications and interpersonal abilities.
- Knowledge of security operations.
- Experience in senior residential services, social work, healthcare or customer service preferred.
- Frequently communicates with residents to provide assistance with housing/daily needs.
- Occasionally lifts objects weight up to 100 pounds.
- Frequently lifts objects weighing 0-50 pounds.
- Occasionally uses the computer with fingers and hands.
- Frequently walks, sits, stands intermittently during working hours.
- Frequently stoops, kneels, or bends when assisting residents and carrying out cleaning duties.
- Ability to work in either well-lit or dimly-lit, tempered room.
- Occasionally assists in set up and tear down of events with residents.
The University of Kentucky is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce by ensuring all our students, faculty, and staff work in an environment of openness and acceptance. We strive to foster a community where people of all backgrounds, identities, and perspectives can feel secure and welcome. We also value the well-being of each of our employees and are dedicated to creating a healthy place to work, learn and live. In the interest of maintaining a safe and healthy environment for our students, employees, patients and visitors the University of Kentucky is a Tobacco & Drug Free campus.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we strongly encourage veterans, individuals with disabilities, women, and all minorities to consider our employment opportunities.
Any candidate offered a position may be required to pass pre-employment screenings as mandated by University of Kentucky Human Resources. These screenings may include a national background check and/or drug screen.
Anticipated Start Date09/07/2020Posting Specific QuestionsRequired fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).
- * You must be a UK student to hold this position. Are you a UK student?
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Organization
Fast Facts
Location: Lexington, Ky.
Founded: 1865
Endowment: $1.1 billion
Budget: $3.5 billion
Research Grants and Contracts Awarded: $316.5 million
Library Holdings: 4.3 million volumes
Enrollment: 30,76
President: Dr. Eli Capilouto
Provost: Dr. David W. Blackwell
Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration: Dr. Eric Monday
Executive Vice President for Research: Dr. Lisa A. Cassis
Executive Vice President for Health Affairs: Dr. Mark F. Newman
About the University
Adjacent to downtown Lexington, UK is nestled in the scenic heart of the beautiful Bluegrass Region of Kentucky. UK's campus covers more than 814 acres, with more than 30,700 students and 13,500 full-time employees, including nearly 2,400 full-time faculty and librarians.
Mission
The University of Kentucky is a public, land grant university dedicated to improving people's lives through excellence in education, research and creative work, service, and health care. As Kentucky's flagship institution, the University plays a critical leadership role by promoting diversity, inclusion, economic development, and human well-being.
Our Guiding Principles
The University is driven by the promise it has made to Kentucky, one that honors its land-grant mission and a heritage honed through 150 years of service to the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Six principles guide our efforts. They are: creating a vibrant undergraduate learning community, advancing a high-quality graduate and professional education portfolio, cultivating a robust research environment, developing a strong and sustainable UK infrastructure, fostering a positive work environment for faculty and staff, and ensuring a meaningful impact on the Commonwealth and the community.
Employment/Benefits
As Central Kentucky's largest employer, the University of Kentucky supports the recruitment and retention of unparalleled talent - individuals who inspire learning, teaching, service and healing through innovation in work solutions, initiatives, policies and programs. Impressive benefits at the University include an excellent retirement package, with an employer match that doubles the employee's contribution, a dynamic work-life program to assist employees in balancing their work with their personal lives, a wellness program to protect, maintain and promote the health of employees, and a strategic plan that nurtures diversity of thought, culture, gender and ethnicity. For more information regarding benefits, visit http://www.uky.edu/hr/benefits.
Research
In fiscal year 2016, the University of Kentucky was awarded $316.5 million in external grants and contracts. UK is one of only eight universities across the country with the full range of undergraduate, graduate, professional and medical programs on one contiguous campus, leading to groundbreaking discoveries and unique cross-disciplinary research and scholarship. Moreover, UK is currently one of only 22 public institutions with a trifecta of federal designations of excellence in research: for aging, in cancer and in translational science. A new $265 million research facility, due to open in 2018, will bring together clinicians, scientists and scholars from across UK’s campus to reduce health gaps in Kentucky. These health gaps include cancer, cardiovascular disease & stroke, diabetes & obesity, substance abuse, and neuroscience & aging.
Research at UK is a dynamic enterprise encompassing both traditional scholarship and emerging technologies. UK is one of eight universities in the U.S. that has well-established programs in agriculture, engineering, medicine and pharmacy on a single campus, leading to groundbreaking discoveries and unique interdisciplinary collaboration.
In 2013, the UK Markey Cancer Center announced its designation as a National Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute. This designation places UK among an elite group of 22 research universities that can boast the "Triple Crown" of federal research awards: NCI designation, the Clinical Translational Sciences Award, and a federally supported Alzheimer's Disease Center.
UK HealthCare
UK HealthCare has strategically developed an incredible capacity to serve the Commonwealth through its state-of-the-art patient care pavilion and emergency rooms, advanced biomedical and biological research, and a network of affiliate health care agencies throughout Kentucky. Passion for people and a vision for the "medical campus of the future" have inspired leading physicians and researchers from across the United States to join UK. Their research agenda is balanced with outreach to affiliated and partner hospitals, so Kentucky families can receive high-quality health care at home and travel to Lexington for only the most advanced, complex medical care and procedures.
Living in the Bluegrass
Ranked as one of the nation's best places to live and work, Lexington offers many diverse educational, cultural and commercial opportunities. With a population of more than 314,000 people, Lexington supports cultural attractions such as opera, ballet, theater and musical events. Surrounded by rolling hills and horse farms, the Bluegrass Region is known for its natural beauty. For more information: http://www.uky.edu/hr/employment/working-uk/life-in-lexington.
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