Home Health Aide

Overview

As a Home Health Aide, you’ll help clients live with greater comfort and independence in their homes and communities. You’ll provide respectful, person-centered care to older adults and people with disabilities, adapting support to each client’s needs and care plan. Your impact: attentive daily care helps clients maintain dignity, safety, and connection while giving families greater confidence in their loved one’s support.

Duties

• Assist with activities of daily living (ADLs), including bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, mobility, and patient transfers; use a Hoyer lift when appropriate and follow safe lifting practices.
• Observe and report changes in condition, take vital signs as directed, and document care in electronic medical record (EMR) or electronic health record (EHR) systems.
• Support medication administration as authorized and trained; provide catheter care and follow infection-control, confidentiality, and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements.
• Prepare meals, cook, clean, and do laundry while supporting clients’ routines and preferences.
• Provide compassionate dementia, Alzheimer’s, memory, hospice, and end-of-life care; communicate clearly with clients, families, and care teams.

Qualifications

• Patient care, caregiving, home health care assistance, and patient personal care experience are valuable. Experience with geriatric patients, senior care, assisted living, nursing homes, long-term care, home and community care, home care, home health agencies, or live-in care is preferred.
• Experience supporting individuals with developmental disabilities or other disabilities is welcome.
• Knowledge of medical terminology, medical documentation, medical records, and home health care regulations is beneficial.
• First aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or basic life support (BLS) training is preferred. Follow applicable care plans, training, and authorization for clinical tasks.

Pay: $15.00 per hour

Expected hours: 20.0 per week

Work Location: In person