Join MorningStar and Make a Difference in the Lives of Our Residents

At MorningStar Senior Living, we think seniors are heroes and they deserve to be treated with respect and enjoy a lifestyle of comfort and wellness.  To help us provide the finest care to our cherished residents, we are currently seeking team members with a calling to serve seniors for various positions at our Phoenix area communities. Positions include caregiver jobs along with support staff such as maintenance and housekeepers.  Just some of the current openings are Care Manager, Cook, Dining Room Server, Medication Care Manager/QMAP, Housekeeper, Life Enrichment Coordinator, and more.

People working in senior living are often surprised to discover how pleasurable it is to serve seniors and how much they learn from it.  After all, if we take the time to listen, seniors have plenty of valuable life lessons to pass on to the younger generation.  Over the span of a lifetime, they have gained a wealth of experience and knowledge, which provides them with a unique perspective.  And older folks typically love having someone around who is willing to listen to them and to look at pictures and cherished mementos from the past.  

When you hang out with seniors, you get the chance to hear about their various backgrounds and interesting careers and to be inspired by their life-long perseverance.  They can help you see what is important in life, and you use their life lessons to develop more rewarding relationships with your own family.  Also, you will come away with a better understanding of the aging process and increased empathy for those suffering from illnesses and disabilities.     

MorningStar is proud to support our team members with some of the most generous benefits in the industry. Compensation starts with competitive wages, and bonus or incentive opportunities (depending on position).  In addition, employees are eligible for paid holidays, paid vacation, paid sick time, birthday appreciation day, 401k plan availability, health savings account availability, uniforms, training and advancement opportunities. At MorningStar, we strive to make sure our team is paid well for the valuable services they provide our company.  Please visit our website to search open positions at our communities in Phoenix, Glendale, Fountain Hills, and Peoria, AZ. While you are there, visit our communities’ home pages to learn more about us. 

MorningStar Senior Living exemplifies the very best in senior living with a unique mission statement “to honor, to serve, to invest.” Our foundation is built on honoring God, valuing all seniors and investing in staff with a felt calling to offer seniors lives of comfort, joy and wellness. Please visit our website and apply for a rewarding position (including caregiver jobs) in the Phoenix area.

The New Year is the Perfect Time for Change

The New Year is always a time for renewal, and after what the world has gone through during the pandemic, many of us are ready for a change. This includes everyone who feels gratitude for what they have, and a renewed commitment to help others. Philosophers, religious leaders, and learned men and women through time all appear to agree with the sentiment that helping others reaps its own reward. As Robert Louis Stevenson said, "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant," or the quote by Abraham Lincoln who said, "To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own,” there is a universal understanding of true happiness.

Martin Luther King Jr. urges us to serve with the following: "Life’s persistent and most urgent question is, ‘what are you doing for others?'" Working for a community like one of Phoenix’s MorningStar Senior Living communities, can provide just such an opportunity. To start with, you will join a team of exceptional individuals who understand it is a privilege to help seniors lead the best lives possible.

Our Phoenix homes, MorningStar at Arcadia, MorningStar of Fountain Hills, MorningStar at Arrowhead, and MorningStar at Golden Ridge, seek individuals with big hearts to fill various caregiver jobs. Open positions range from care managers to cooks, dining room servers, housekeepers, dishwashers and more. While qualifications vary within our different roles, each job gives a person the chance to serve others and to get the satisfaction knowing they are making a difference. As we understand our team is vital to our success, we reward staff members with competitive wages; comprehensive benefits including healthcare and holiday, vacation and sick time; flexible schedules; and training.

Read MorningStar’s Founder/CEO, Ken Jaeger’s inspiring words when he speaks to MorningStar team members and other groups on living a life of selfless giving: “Don’t wait to serve. Serve now. Give now. Get involved somewhere. It will make you a better person.” To learn more about our Phoenix caregiver jobs, our company and our homes, visit MorningStar website’s “Career” page.

Exercise to Lower Your Risk of Falls and Injuries

If you are a senior who is having difficulty turning your neck to look behind you when driving, having problems getting up from a low chair or difficulty picking something up from the floor, you may find adding stretches to your routine can really improve these types of motions. Stretching exercises also help seniors improve flexibility and balance, both of which lower a person’s risk of falls and injuries. Experts explain stretching gives seniors a better range of movement in their joints, helps improve posture, increases circulation and releases muscle tension and soreness. 

The Journal of Gerontology reported on the results of a 12-month stretch and flex program for older adults. It found “participants demonstrated positive changes in areas like physical fitness, self-efficacy, perceived functioning, and well-being. They also experienced a decrease in pain.” Along with the favorable benefits stretching provides, it can be done anywhere and does not require any special equipment. However, before beginning any new exercise routine, be sure to consult with your healthcare provider regarding your fitness level and the type of stretches most appropriate for you. 

Another thing to remember is it is important to warm up before stretching. Experts say it can be doing something as simple as a walk around the block. Additionally, they warn not to stretch to the point of pain, only to the point of tension. A stretch can typically be held for 30 seconds, but do not bounce when you stretch. 

MorningStar of Beaverton is a senior living community providing 66 private assisted living suites and another 38 secure suites devoted to specialized care of those with Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia. Our goal is to enhance quality of life for our residents and we do this through a full range of care and hospitality services, amenities, and a component of wellness programs and activities. Please contact us or visit our website to learn more.

We proudly provide the very best in assisted living and memory care with our unique mission statement of “to honor, to serve, to invest.” With a foundation built on honoring God, valuing all seniors and selecting staff with a felt calling to serve, we create a true home for residents amid a beautiful setting. If you are looking for exceptional senior living, MorningStar of Beaverton may be your answer.

Have a Big Heart? How About a Caregiver Job?

After the last year and a half, many people are rethinking their lives and making plans for the future that include going in a different direction career-wise. If you are one of those people and feel you could make the world a better place by helping others, how about a job serving seniors? MorningStar Senior Living has four communities in the Phoenix area looking for people just like you to fill a variety of roles including housekeepers, dining servers, caregivers and more.  

If you are new to senior living and are worried about your qualifications, please know our team selection starts with heart. In other words, we first look for individuals with character, kindness and selflessness, as when it comes to serving others, these virtues are as important as education and experience in building a distinguished team. From there, we invest in each employee to ensure their success with meaningful training and coaching as well as generous compensation and benefits.

  

For those wondering if the time is right, listen to the inspiring words of MorningStar’s Founder/CEO, Ken Jaeger urging others to live a life of selflessness. He says, “Don’t wait to serve. Serve now. Today. Get involved somewhere, anywhere. It will make you a better person (and if you work for MorningStar, it will make you a better team member).” He wants us to know when we give now and give generously, watch what happens in our lives “for you cannot out-give God.”  

Our Phoenix locations include MorningStar at Arcadia, MorningStar of Fountain Hills, MorningStar at Arrowhead, and MorningStar at Golden Ridge. Our beautiful communities have a unique mission statement: “to honor, to serve, to invest” that set us apart from other senior living communities. Please visit our Career page for links to rewarding caregiver jobs in Phoenix and to take a look at our full package of comprehensive benefits including competitive wages and flexible schedules.

Top Senior Living Communities Seek Compassionate Caregivers

The Phoenix area senior living communities of MorningStar at Arcadia, MorningStar of Fountain Hills, MorningStar at Arrowhead and MorningStar at Golden Ridge are offering rewarding positions for full and part-time caregivers. To fill our openings, we are looking for individuals with big hearts who understand it is a privilege to serve.  

In fact MorningStar caregivers are a special bred. Our team knows the highest expression of living is when we are fully engaged in sharing our gifts and talents as well as time and energy with others. In this type of investment alone, we find deep and lasting satisfaction, and want to help others discover this same kind of fulfillment. 

Our senior living homes offer Phoenix area seniors independent living, assisted living and memory care. While each is beautifully designed, we are most proud of the atmosphere in our homes – one that resounds with laughter and love. Under our roofs, team members treat resident as they would their own moms and dads or grandparents; and believe as we do that seniors are heroes who deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. 

As we consider our dedicated caregivers to be invaluable to our success, we encourage each one to build relationships with our residents and their families as well as with fellow team members. If you take one of our caregiver jobs, your duties will include helping residents with their personal daily care activities and overseeing their physical comfort, safety and mental wellbeing.  

Compensation includes competitive wages and full benefits as well as meaningful training and mentoring to ensure your success. Furthermore you will have opportunities for professional growth as we promote from within whenever possible and be encouraged to share creative solutions to improve residents’ lives and the running of our homes.

At MorningStar we are intentional about populating our speech with these key motivators: to love from a deep place, to serve rather than be served, and to focus on that which matters most: relationships. If you would love to be part of something special, we invite you to join our MorningStar family. Pease visit our Career page for links to the most rewarding caregiver jobs Phoenix offers.

Serving Others Is a Key Ingredient for Life Satisfaction

 

A 2017 survey found just half of those surveyed said they were satisfied with their jobs. In fact study after study has shown salary, titles, perks, fancy offices and other external rewards do not necessarily motivate people for long. Since a large part of our day is spent at our jobs, evidence suggests a different set of qualities result in higher satisfaction.  

Turns out one of the key ingredients for life satisfaction is serving others as studies find people in these types of jobs are less depressed and healthier. Another component of job satisfaction is whether the work has meaning. Do you feel like you are doing something important, something that will make a different? People also report being more satisfied with work when they feel valued and recognized for their contribution. Lastly studies find shared connections are important in how a person feels about the work. Is it a team effort, are employees encouraged to problem solve and be a part of the solution? 

At the MorningStar Senior Living’s communities of MorningStar at Arcadia, MorningStar at Arrowhead, MorningStar of Fountain Hills and MorningStar at Golden Ridge, we feel it is a privilege to serve. Working with seniors, we know our lives are enriched by listening to residents’ life stories and recognizing their sage advice is based on a wealth of experience.  We love the fact that seniors teach us to appreciate each new day and help us to better understand the aging process.  

Our Phoenix caregiver jobs offer a full range of benefits and competitive wages. Moreover we provide meaningful training and support to each employee to ensure their success. In addition as our philosophy includes promoting from within whenever possible, it gives team members a chance for a career they can be proud of. 

If you have the heart of a caregiver, we invite you to join our MorningStar family. Visit our Career page for a link to fulfilling caregiver jobs in Phoenix, and use our convenient online application to apply.

Opportunities for Advancement Along with Full Benefits

With a vision statement that reads: In pursuit of excellence, MorningStar resolves to be a company of servant-minded, purpose-driven leaders in our senior communities and throughout the world, it’s no wonder MorningStar senior living communities are a great place to work. At our Phoenix area communities of MorningStar at Arcadia, MorningStar of Fountain Hills, MorningStar at Arrowhead, and MorningStar at Golden Ridge, we are proud to have a team that understands to work with seniors is to be reminded that life’s deepest satisfaction is found in service to others.  

This is why we proudly offer opportunities for our dedicated employees to grow not only professionally but personally and encourage each team member to share creative solutions to improve our residents’ lives. Additionally every employee, regardless of position, is considered an integral part of our success, which is why we offer a full range of benefits as well as opportunities for advancement by promoting from within whenever possible.  

The philosophy behind our loving care is derived from the belief that seniors are heroes; and while our calling is to serve those living within our communities, team members often share how blessed they feel by the special bonds that spring up between residents and staff. If you want to see the love in action, visit our website and take a look at our Twice the Story video series that showcases the tender relationships between residents and team members throughout our MorningStar communities. 

If you love the idea of a career that encourages building loving relationships, working with a team of compassionate service professionals, and receiving the training you need to reach your potential, we encourage you to become a MorningStar caregiver in Phoenix’s finest senior living communities. Please visit MorningStar’s Career page for a list of job openings as well as information regarding our extensive benefits package. For your convenience we provide an online application to make applying easy. We look forward to hearing from you!

Begin a Fulfilling Career Serving Others

At the Phoenix MorningStar Senior Living communities we take a unique approach to serving seniors. We start with our mission statement: to honor God, to value seniors and to invest in our team. We then strive to adhere to our core values of love, kindness, honesty, goodness, fairness and respect to guide the way we treat our residents, their families, fellow team members and the community at large. Together this has enabled us to create a workplace that supports and inspires team members to thrive personally and professionally, and where they understand it is a privilege to serve.      

As our mission statement includes investing in our employees, we not only provide great jobs for them but ones filled with opportunity for growth. Each employee, regardless of position, is treated as an integral part of our success by helping us create true homes filled with love and laughter. To ensure their personal success, we offer meaningful training in Radiance, which is more than a Customer Service program, but rather a powerful way to build trust through a Culture of consistency, authenticity and genuine concern for the needs of others.

Our Phoenix area communities include MorningStar at Arcadia, MorningStar at Arrowhead, and MorningStar of Fountain Hills that all offer assisted living and memory care. MorningStar at Golden Ridge additionally offers 38 Casitas for independent living (quadraplexes with attached garages) along with assisted living and memory care. All of our communities are seeking individuals who love the idea of serving seniors as well as working for a company promoting such values. Roles are varied, and open positions include caregivers as well as cooks, maintenance assistants, food servers and housekeeping job in Phoenix’s beautiful MorningStar homes. 

We know our employees are the heart of our communities and understand the importance of building a team of service professionals who feel called, connected and empowered. If you feel called to serve, please visit our website and take a look at our “Career” page. There we go through our comprehensive benefit package and a little something about our hiring process along with current openings. We are intentional and articulate about the kind of culture we wish to build, and would love to welcome you to our MorningStar family.