Why Work at Care Haven?

Differential for hours worked weekday nights or weekends

The differential applies to all caregivers and is separate from individual wage adjustments.

Weekday nights: $1.00 per hour

• Monday through Thursday evenings
• Starts at 11 pm and ends at 7 am

Weekend days: $1.00 per hour

• Saturday from 7 am to 11 pm and
• Sunday from 7 am to 11 pm

Weekend nights: $1.25 per hour

• Friday night from 11 pm to 7 am
• Saturday night from 11 pm to 7 am and
• Sunday night from 11 pm to 7 am

Assisted living jobs in memory care: CNA or CMA

All our caregivers are certified as medication aides (CMAs) or nurse aides (CNAs) by the State of Kansas.

Our aides typically work 12-hour shifts. Day shifts run from 7 am to 7 pm, while nights are from 7 pm to 7 am.

Most full-time employees work regular 2-week schedules:

• Week 1: 36 hours (three 12-hour shifts)
• Week 2: 48 hours (four 12-hour shifts), including built-in overtime
• All full-time employees work every other weekend. (Don’t forget our weekend differential pay!)

Part-time employees work 12 to 24 hours per week. We consider PRN scheduling for qualified candidates.

All our CMAs and CNAs are universal workers. In brief, you

• Help residents with activities of daily living.
• For CMAs, give medication according to residents’ care plans and state regulations.
• Interact with each resident. Encourage individual and group activities.
• Prepare meals according to menu plans.
• Keep homes clean, orderly, organized and safe.
• Maintain positive relationships with visiting family members.

We also prefer — but do not require — 6 months’ experience assisting with activities of daily living, light housekeeping, cooking and an activities program.

Residents look to you for all their care

Of course, you’ll provide the care that nurse aide jobs typically require in assisted living settings. Except universal workers share in all aspects of residents’ lives.

You’ll join them in baking award-winning family recipes, painting still lives, playing balloon ball and putting up holiday decorations.

They’ll count on you to connect with pen pals, Zoom friends and special guests — and to help ease the end of a visit, too.

Residents rely on you to help them greet the day with hair combed, teeth brushed and, occasionally, a sparkling new manicure. You ensure they look their best in clean clothes and relax in well-ordered surroundings.

As mealtime approaches, you send delicious aromas drifting from the kitchen and arrange the lovely table setting. You guide the dinner conversation and clear the dishes.

And, finally, you settle everyone into their bedtime routines. You’re there to lend a hand with night-time toileting or offer reassurance after bad dreams — to be a comforting presence through restless nights.

Families count on you to help their loved ones continue living with dignity in the comfort of home.

And you can count on finding more job satisfaction than in just about any other career, doing important, meaningful work of which you’ll be proud.

What are my duties?

In addition to providing personal care to residents and supporting the nursing staff, you’ll help with activities and perform housekeeping, laundry and food services.

Isn’t that more work than the average assisted living job?

You and a co-worker care for just 8 residents in a single home — no more than 4 each. Your nurse aide duties take a fraction of the time spent in a facility staffed at 12:1 (or short-staffed at even lower levels).

You have more time to spend one-on-one with residents and in the everyday upkeep of your home.

“After settling into the routine, this became the least stressful caregiving job I’ve had. It’s the only way to work in memory care!”

I’ve never cooked or cleaned at work. How do I learn?

Step by step, following straightforward instructions. It may be several months before you feel you’ve mastered all the basics. We don’t mind mentoring eager learners.

To avoid feeling overwhelmed, you begin by learning your most critical job: meeting our high standards for nursing support and personal care. Then, we’ll train you to handle other household duties.

Are you intimidated by cooking? Don’t worry. We handle menu planning and shopping, then provide step-by-step directions for meal preparation. And, of course, fellow caregivers help you up the learning curve.

What is the most important job in your assisted living/ memory care homes?

Our caregivers asked us to relay a message to all prospective team members:

“Above all else, you must be committed to providing the quality care our residents and their families deserve.

“We welcome – and will lend a hand to – anyone dedicated to making our homes special places for those who live here and the strong professional care team that supports them.”

More than meds

Some nurse aides look forward to the day they pick up a tray of meds and walk away from all personal care responsibilities.

You won’t find them at Care Haven.

Certified Medication Aides do more than pass pills here. Care Haven is the perfect place for the CMA who wants to deliver comfort and care while administering medications.

Turning this house into a home

You’ll love this job if you hope to develop deeper relationships with residents, their families and your coworkers. Take the time to chat as you set the table, fold the laundry or apply someone’s lipstick. (You’ll find everyone is more at ease than when you’re delivering their daily doses!)

Always remember: this isn’t just a care facility. It’s someone’s home. Our team needs partners who know you’re watching over our residents whenever you’re looking out for their houses.

We provide residents with the fresh scents, delicious meals and attractive surroundings you’d find in any well-kept home. And when dementia makes the world scary and perplexing, we work extra hard to keep those surroundings safe and comfortable.

Yes, you’ll pass a tray of meds. But you’ll deliver a dose of reassurance too. Spend more time with each resident as you make your rounds — offer a familiar face and knowing smile with every pill — help the medicine go down with a laugh, a tune or a favorite treat!

Teamwork

When you come to Care Haven, you join two teams:

• The family of residents and other professional caregivers in the home at which you regularly work AND
• The larger Care Haven community: six memory care homes and an impressive support network.

Who do I work for?

You work for Care Haven Homes, not any single home.

• The Director of Nursing and our nursing staff supervise nurse aides as they maintain residents’ health and hygiene, perform clinical duties or dispense medications.
• Our Operations Manager sets your schedule and, with your House Manager, supervises all housekeeping, laundry and food services.

These managers work from our Prairie Village office, within 5 miles of your Care Haven home. Our nurses and the Operations Manager make regular rounds of all our houses. If an emergency arises, they’re just moments away.

Will I fit in?

Our staff welcomes co-workers who are

• Compassionate, gentle and patient with residents as well as each other
• Responsible, dependable and self-directed
• Willing to both ask and answer questions to be sure things get done right
• Eager to learn more about giving better dementia care
• Flexible — ready to help cover each others’ scheduled time off
• Proud to bring thoughtfulness and energy to a close, supportive team

Is my job to work in a single assisted living/ memory care home?

We schedule you to work your shifts in the same house whenever possible. You’ll enjoy building close relationships with the special people who live there, their families and your co-workers. The caregivers in each Care Haven home take pride in working together to create a comforting environment for its residents.

But we’ve also pledged never to run short-staffed. If your regular shift partner gets sick or goes on vacation, you don’t want to care for 8 residents alone. And we don’t want you to.

So, occasionally we’ll call on caregivers in other homes to cover your or your partner’s shift. Those caregivers depend on you to return the favor. And we’re counting on all of you to take your turn to maintain the high staffing levels we all enjoy.

Can I turn down a shift in another home?

No. Our caregivers have asked that we hire team players who step up and take turns without complaint. When everyone covers their share of open shifts in other homes, you spend more time working in the Care Haven house YOU call home.

Abdoulie, CMA

We work as a team.
I wasn’t expecting the level of commitment for caregivers, everybody really to work hard.
They motivate you to excel. That’s one thing I like. From the top down, they’re all very nice and they encourage you.
You will excel in whatever you want to do. Because at Care Haven, they will encourage you. We have the training to help you build on whatever you want.
What’s special about Care Haven is the way they treat their employees and family members. That alone is something special.

RNs & LPNs licensed by the State of Kansas

Residents see one of our nurses almost daily. Someone on our nursing staff is available for emergency care 24 hours a day.

All our nurses work together in order to direct healthcare in our homes. They’re skilled observers and experienced problem solvers. We value their input and oversight. As a team, they

• Assess potential residents to determine whether our homes suit them.
• Develop residents’ individual health care plans.
• Coordinate care with doctors, pharmacies and outside health care agencies.
• Manage medications.
• Assess and respond to daily changes in residents’ health.
• Supervise and manage the CMAs and CNAs on our direct care staff.
• Most important, discuss medical options and health concerns with family members.

Our nurses work overlapping shifts to cover daily and round-the-clock emergency care in our homes, most in part-time positions

• Either on scheduled weekdays, making rounds to each home and rotating evening and weekend on-call duties, OR
• Handling weekend rounds and on-call duties, primarily on scheduled weekends.

We consider alternative schedules for qualified candidates.

Our nurses are licensed as registered nurses (RNs) or licensed practical nurses (LPNs) by the State of Kansas. We also prefer 2 years of experience providing nursing services to older adults.

About nursing jobs in our assisted living/ memory care homes

“I love being part of a supportive team that’s experienced, flexible and willing to step up to help me out, even on short notice.”

“When I’m in a bind, I can call on senior managers or other nurses for support.
The whole staff cares about keeping things running smoothly for our residents.”

“Supervisors never ask employees to do something they wouldn’t or couldn’t do themselves. I really respect this management team.”

About Care Haven

• Founded in 2005, Care Haven Homes is Johnson County’s oldest and largest operator of small, residential memory care homes. We own and operate 6 homes: 4 in Overland Park and 2 in Leawood, all located within 4 miles of our Prairie Village office. Each Care Haven home operates as a “Home Plus” licensed by The Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services.
• These are real homes: attractive, ranch-style houses tucked into quiet residential neighborhoods. We’ve remodeled them to create safe, comfortable environments for people with dementia.
• Each home provides a warm, family-style setting for no more than 8 residents. The resident-to-caregiver ratio typically is 4 to 1.
• Our local owners and management team dedicate themselves to giving residents what they need when they need it — with the kindness, dignity and respect they deserve.

“It is the policy of Care Haven Homes, LLC to recruit and employ the best-qualified personnel for available positions, to provide equal opportunity for the advancement of employees, and to administer these activities in a manner which will not discriminate against any person because of race, creed, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, physical or mental handicap, economic status, or marital status.”