Duncaster Inc·Bloomfield, Connecticut
The Certified Nursing Assistant provides daily personal care, including hygiene, feeding, and mobility assistance, to residents in a safe and clean environment. They are also responsible for monitoring resident conditions, reporting changes to nursing staff, and maintaining accurate documentation in the electronic system.
As a Best of Hartford organization, a career at Duncaster in more than just a place to work. Here, you can fulfill your passion for helping others and become part of something meaningful that pays you back in inspiring, heartfelt ways you may have never experienced. Duncaster offers residents a plan for life with independent living, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing services all on a beautiful campus-like setting. Our residents share a bond of mutual respect with our staff that builds memorable and lasting relationships.
Under the direction of a licensed nurse, a certified nursing assistant performs daily personal care. Their primary responsibility is to ensure the residents’ quality of life by meeting their psychosocial needs in a safe and clean environment.
Essential Functions
Provides personal hygiene (bath, shower, shampoo, shaving, dressing, elimination needs, facial hair clipping, nail clipping, and other personal care).
Performs safe and proper transfers and assists with ambulation by using assistive devices such as gait belts, walkers, wheelchairs, and mechanical lifts.
Accurately weighs residents on admission or as assigned in a timely fashion. Takes vital signs and responsibly reports observations and changes in resident condition.
Checks bedfast or incontinent residents at least every two hours to adjust position, toilet and provide incontinent care.
Provides for physical comfort and safe environment. This includes consistently monitoring chair and bed alarms. Follows all safety and security policies and procedures; performs all tasks to assure resident and personal safety and the protection of co-workers and facility property.
Assures resident rooms are in a neat, orderly fashion while maintaining the resident’s right to privacy, i.e., neat closets, labeled personal items. Assures cleanliness of utility rooms, kitchens, staff rooms, shower rooms, linen rooms and other work areas.
Promptly and courteously answers residents’ call bells and other requests for assistance; follows residents’ plan of care regarding out-of-bed schedule and respects residents’ choices for going back to bed unless otherwise ordered by Physician or Charge Nurse.
Serves meal tray, assists feeding as appropriate, and provides nourishments to residents as assigned in a timely fashion
Completes documentation in Care Tracker System in an accurate and timely fashion.
Communicates with nurse any changes in resident condition, particularly behaviors, bowel regime, and skin conditions.
Follows all policies and procedures, annual mandatory in-services, required meetings, and all other conditions of employment are consistently met.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Education and Experience
High school diploma or equivalent is required.
Current certification as a Certified Nursing Assistant in the State of Connecticut is required.
Experience with MatrixCare or other electronic medical records is preferred.
Must be able to speak, read, and write the English language in an understandable manner.
1st shift, 7: 00am-3:30pm
$20.00 - 24.00 per hour (based on years of experience) + shift differential (Weekday nights: $1.50 p/h, Weekend nights: $2.00 p/h)
What are the benefits?
Candidates must possess a high school diploma or equivalent and a current Certified Nursing Assistant certification in the State of Connecticut. Proficiency in English and experience with electronic medical records are also required or preferred.
Market context
Connecticut nursing openings typically reflect steady demand in hospitals, long-term care, and outpatient settings, especially for RNs who can step into patient care quickly. These roles are competitive because employers often look for an active Connecticut RN license, BLS certification, and preferred specialty credentials, while education requirements may favor a BSN. On this platform, job requirements and benefits are AI-summarized from the original job description, saving you research time; before applying, confirm your license status and match your certifications to the posting.