JCF Offering Nursing Assistant Training/Employment
John C. Fremont Healthcare District is offering a Nursing Assistant Training Program. The start date of the training program is Tuesday, March 1, 2016, and it runs for 8 weeks. The application submittal deadline is Friday, January 15, 2016. This is a paid on-the-job training program in which trainees are hired as temporary employees. Trainees will earn $10.00 per hour, and upon satisfactory completion of the educational requirements and successfully passing the State’s nursing assistant exam will continue as a JCF employee, and their hourly rate increases to $11.28, the base rate of pay for Level I Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA’s).
The District provides trainees’ books, a uniform, equipment, fingerprinting fee and the State’s certification test fee. Persons applying for this job training program must meet the State’s criteria for nursing assistant certification as well as the District’s employment criteria, which includes: a background check, drug and alcohol testing, and a physical.
For those who would like to learn more about being a nursing assistant, the training program, and the State’s criteria for Nursing Assistant certification, two informational meetings will be held. Persons interested are strongly urged to attend one of these meetings. The first meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 5th, from 9:00-10:30 a.m., and the second on Tuesday, January 12th, from 9:00-10:30 a.m. Both meetings will be held in the Board Room, located in the Administration building, in the back parking lot of the Hospital, at 5189 Hospital Road, Mariposa. A limited number of positions are available for this program.
Applications and information on the program are now available from John C. Fremont Healthcare District’s Human Resources Department or from the hospital admitting office, 5189 Hospital Road, or call (209) 966-3631, ext. 247 or ext. 237. Applications for the program will be accepted through Friday, January 15, 2016.