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Senior Support CNA

Norton Sound Health Corp·Nome, Alaska

$37 - $47/hr·Full Time·On Site·2-5 yrs·Posted 4 months ago
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About the role

This role involves providing high-quality resident care, training other CNAs, and supporting key office and clerical functions within the nursing home to ensure efficient facility operation. Essential functions include performing basic nursing duties, assisting staff with procedures, collecting specimens, and executing highly skilled administrative tasks like data input and file maintenance.

Purpose of Position

Provide high-quality resident care and staff training while supporting key office and clerical functions within the nursing home. This role ensures the efficient operation of the facility by combining hands-on caregiving, mentoring and training other CNAs, and performing administrative responsibilities that promote effective communication, accurate documentation, and daily workflow.

This position performs highly skilled administrative duties requiring detailed knowledge about the work unit's procedures and company policy; creates and processes complex documents in accordance with broad direction, records data, prepares reports, answers and directs incoming telephone calls, lists data, files, greets visitors, and uses a personal computer with advanced skills.

Assist professional nursing staff by performing simple treatments and related bedside patient care, as well as transporting patients and performing some clerical duties.

Uphold the organization’s vision, mission, and corporate values. Demonstrate understanding of and compliance with the organization’s policies, procedures, code of conduct, and work rules.

Essential Functions

  • Provide for the comfort and well-being of patients by performing basic nursing duties such as transportation within the facility
  • Assist patients in dressing or undressing, bathing, or eating
  • Aid physicians and nursing staff members with procedures when needed
  • Collect non-invasive body fluid specimens or gather vital signs
  • Document patient interactions as needed
  • Assist with staff training
  • Perform highly skilled administrative duties in support of QCC. Department-specific tasks include, but are not limited to, inputting sensitive information into information systems, preparing correspondence, researching and formatting information, retrieving files, maintaining records, preparing and maintaining staff files, Human Resources paperwork filing,
  • Collecting, organizing, and storing unit documents as directed, to include, but not limited to, schedules, daily staffing sheets, assignment sheets, etc.
  • Serve as the internal customer point of contact in the department for answering questions and solving complex problems
  • Provide advanced assistance in preparation and maintenance of items such as purchase requests, non-materials management inventory, maintenance work orders, travel requests, audits, staff files, etc.
  • Assist with Payroll Based Journal data as directed
  • Perform other duties as assigned

Personal Traits

All Norton Sound Health Corporation employees are expected to consistently demonstrate the organization’s values: integrity, cultural sensitivity and respect for traditional values, continual learning and improving, compassion, teamwork and pride. Employees are expected to demonstrate integrity, professionalism, accountability, cooperation with and consideration of others.

Required Knowledge

All Norton Sound Health Corporation employees are expected to have general knowledge of typical office technologies such as computers, printers, copiers, fax machines, and typical office software.

Job Specific knowledge is listed below

  • Knowledge of patient care principles, practices, standards and techniques (including proper lifting, assistance with walking, etc.)
  • Knowledge of documentation requirements for specific fields/records

Required Skills and Abilities

  • All Norton Sound Health Corporation employees are expected to have a broad range of skills and abilities centered on a strong patient focus, efficient performance, and teamwork.
  • All employees should have patient/customer service skills, interpersonal skills, and good communication skills.
  • All employees should have the ability to manage their time and organize their work to ensure efficient performance.
  • In addition, all employees should have the ability to follow policy, procedure and instructions, actively communicate with their supervisors to ensure understanding, and manage their work accordingly.
  • Finally, all employees should have the ability to understand and manage patient/customer confidentiality.

Job specific skills and abilities are listed below

  • Above average communication skills
  • Problem-solving and critical thinking skills
  • Interpersonal skills and teamwork

Minimum Requirements

Education

Degree

Program: High School Diploma or equivalent

Experience: General (Non-supervisory)

Supervisory

Amount: 3 year(s)

0 (years)

Type

Must have both general and supervisory experience if indicated.

Credentials

Licensure, Certification, Etc.

Alaska State Licensure as a Certified Nursing Assistant, BLS

Physical Requirements: ∙Use hands and arms to operate office or clinical equipment

∙Sit less than half the workday

∙Stand and/or walk more than half the workday

∙Bend, stretch, twist, crouch and/or reach

∙Use hands and arms for repetitive motion tasks consistently for more than one hour at a time

∙Lift or carry unaided up to 50 pounds

∙Push or pull using up to moderate force

∙See and hear with normal acuity

Working Conditions

∙Work is conducted in a standard clinical environment to include exposure to latex, biohazard or other harmful substances

∙Minimal travel is required (less than 25% of the time)

I attest that I do not have any physical, mental or medical impairment or disability that would limit my job performance.

Affirmation of understanding of job duties: _____________________________________

Printed Name of Incumbent

Signature of Incumbent Date

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Job Description: Signature of Hiring Director/Manager

Posting details

Employment type
Full Time
Work arrangement
On Site
Experience
2-5 yrs
Salary
$37 - $47/hr
Location
Nome, Alaska
Posted
Mar 3, 2026
Application
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Hiring organization

Norton Sound Health Corp

Norton Sound Health Corporation (NSHC) is a tribally owned and operated, independent, not-for-profit health care organization. NSHC operates the Norton Sound Regional Hospital in Nome and clinics in the 15 villages within the 44,000 square miles that comprise the Bering Strait...

Salary listed on 18 jobs
IndustryHospitals and Health Care
TypeNonprofit
Size501-1,000 employees
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