Support Aide to CNA Track

$17.70 / Hour

Support Aide - Paid CNA Training Career Path

Elderwood at Hamburg | Hamburg, NY
No Previous Healthcare Experience Required

Start Your Healthcare Career at Elderwood.

Are you someone others can depend on? Do you enjoy helping people and want to build a career where your work makes a difference every day?

Elderwood at Hamburg is hiring Support Aides who are interested in gaining healthcare experience and advancing into our paid Certified Nursing Assistant Training Program.

This opportunity may be a strong fit for nursing students, Home Health Aides, Personal Care Aides, former CNAs, or individuals entering healthcare for the first time. Previous healthcare experience is not required-we'll help you build the skills and experience needed to grow.

Begin as a Support Aide. Build Toward CNA Certification.

As a Support Aide, you'll gain valuable experience supporting residents and working alongside our nursing team. Qualified Support Aides may then be selected to enter Elderwood's paid CNA Training Program.

Once selected for the program, you will receive:

Three weeks of paid CNA training
• Pay while attending required classes and clinical experiences
• Hands-on preparation for the CNA certification exam
• CNA certification exam costs covered by Elderwood
• The opportunity to transition into a CNA position with increased responsibilities and pay after successfully completing the program and obtaining certification

A Nursing Career Path You Can Build On.

Your first role at Elderwood can become the beginning of a long-term nursing career:

Support Aide CNA LPN RN Nursing Leadership

Eligible employees may also apply for full-tuition scholarship opportunities at Trocaire College for:

• Practical Nursing (LPN)
• Registered Nursing (RN)
• RN-to-BSN

Scholarships are subject to program eligibility, application requirements, selection criteria, and available awards.

Build Your Career Close to Home.

Elderwood at Hamburg is conveniently located for candidates throughout Hamburg, Orchard Park, West Seneca, East Aurora, Eden, Angola, Derby, Evans, Blasdell, Lackawanna, and surrounding Southtown communities.

If you are compassionate, dependable, and ready to begin a healthcare career with room to grow, apply today for the Support Aide opportunity at Elderwood at Hamburg.

Elderwood at Hamburg
5775 Maelou Drive
Hamburg, NY 14075

(CNA Training Track - Support Aide):

• Transport residents or accompanies ambulatory residents as assigned to various locations in the building including the dining room, activity program areas, therapy or treatment areas.
• Make unoccupied resident beds, as assigned.

• Assist in the Dining Room with food service to residents, under the direction of licensed therapy staff; duties include passing trays, cutting meat, opening cartons or other containers.

• Assist in other departments as needed.

• Distribute supplemental nourishments to residents who do not need to be fed, as directed.

• Conduct informal activities on the nursing unit when time permits, as directed.

• Supply fresh water in resident's rooms, as directed.

• Prepare bed and bedwear of resident's at hour of sleep, as assigned.

• Help keep general areas of the assigned nursing unit neat and orderly, as directed.

• Clean resident's equipment (wheelchair/geri chair, bed, etc.), as assigned.

• Keep the rooms of residents orderly, as assigned.

• Notify therapist of any unusual incidents regarding residents.

(CNA Training Track - Support Aide):

• Sixteen (16) years of age required; high school diploma or equivalent required.
• Employment Certificate/Permit required for 16-17 years of age.
• No findings or convictions of resident abuse, mistreatment and misappropriation of property through any current or previous licensing agency.
• 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 supervisors, this position requires that the employee be able to read, write, speak, and understand the English language at an intermediate or more advanced level.

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.