RESIDENT ASSISTANT - VILLAGE
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Job overview
The Resident Assistant supports residents who are functionally, physically, or socially impaired and need help with daily living activities such as bathing, dressing, and grooming. The role also promotes socialization through activities, teaches self-help skills, and helps maintain residents’ dignity and safety. Experience assisting elderly people with daily activities is helpful, and Certified Nurse Aide certification is desired.
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Full job description
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JOB REQUIREMENTS
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Education
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High school education or equivalent.
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Experience
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Experience with elderly in assisting with daily activities of living is helpful. Certified nurses aide is desired.
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Physical
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This is a safety sensitive position. Please see the St. Bernards Substance Abuse Policy for further information.
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Frequently walks, uses hands to finger equipment and controls. Movements required are bending, stooping, squatting, crawling, climbing, kneeling, pushing/pulling, and reaching above shoulder level. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
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JOB SUMMARY
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The Resident Assistant assists residents who are functionally, physically, and or socially impaired and need assistance with activities of daily living including bathing, dressing and grooming. Responsible for promoting and implementing a variety of activities under the direction of the Activity Coordinator, that includes internal and external opportunities for socialization. Assists and teaches residents skills in self-help. Helps to maintain the self-respect, personal dignity and physical safety of each resident.
How this job compares
Set against the 4,324 open Caregiver jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$43–47K/yr20 salary ranges
- Arkansas median$14–18/hr42 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 56 open Caregiver jobs in Arkansas and 4,324 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Arkansas
- HomeWell Care Services27 open
- HCAOA (Home Care Association of America)15 open
- HomeWell Care Services AR1743 open
- Experience
- Caregiver postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (910 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 1,452 of the 4,324 open Caregiver jobs (34%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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