Position title
Infirmary Aide
Description
The Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia provide 24-hour nursing assistant care for their elderly sisters in the infirmary within their motherhouse in Nashville. The Sisters are seeking a full-time infirmary aide for the night shift (10:30pm-6:30am) Sunday through Thursday nights. Night-shift differential and benefits are included. The infirmary aide is responsible for providing personal care and delegated services designed to maintain the Sisters’ spiritual, physical, and emotional well-being.
Qualifications:
- Physically able to provide compassionate hands-on care for the sisters, which includes lifting 50 pounds, safely transferring sisters using assistive equipment, bending, standing, kneeling, crouching
- Prioritize and organize work effectively and efficiently.
- Work well as a team member with other personnel and Sister Supervisor.
- Take initiative and see a task to completion independently.
- Flexible and adaptable to changing situations.
- Compassionate and make ethically sound decisions.
- Is respectful and kind, demonstrating good interpersonal skills with the elderly and others.
- Communicate difficulties and ask questions for clarity or in order to better carry out the work required.
- Ability to speak, read, and comprehend written and verbal instructions in English.
- Ability to write simple correspondence and documentation in English about each Sister.
- CNA license and previous caregiving experience are preferred but not required
Responsibilities:
- Help each Sister to reach and maintain the highest level of physical and personal independence.
- Provide attentive, person-centered care that allows each sister peacefully to live her vowed religious life.
- Assist the Sisters with personal care that includes but is not restricted to: oral care, personal hygiene, preparation and administration of meals, dressing, grooming, toileting, incontinence care, mobility (i.e. walking) transfers, positioning and range of motion.
- Ensure the safety of each Sister, i.e. correct body mechanics, and demonstrate proper techniques for lifting and transferring Sisters (includes the correct use of lifts and beds; answering call lights promptly).
- Maintain the confidentiality of the Sisters regarding medical and personal information.
- Respond to circumstances and requests in a professional and Christian manner, using a kind tone of voice and remaining calm in difficult or unusual circumstances.
- Provide a positive environment conducive to a convent setting, attentive to the appropriate silence and with respect for the contemplative aspect of the Sisters’ lives.
- Perform daily house cleaning duties within the infirmary.
- Other duties as assigned by the Sister Supervisor.
To apply
Please contact Sister John Vianney, OP, RN at infirmary@op-tn.org for further information.
Hiring organization
Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia
Job Location
Nashville, TN
Date posted
September 18, 2025
Valid through
October 31, 2025
Please contact Sister John Vianney, OP, RN at infirmary@op-tn.org for further information.
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