Home Health Aide

Job Overview

As a Home Health Aide, you’ll provide respectful, practical support that helps clients remain safe and comfortable in their homes and communities. You’ll assist with personal care, daily routines, and household tasks while observing changes in a client’s condition and sharing relevant updates with the care team. Your impact: attentive care and clear communication help clients and families navigate daily needs with dignity and confidence.

Responsibilities

• Assist with activities of daily living (ADLs), including bathing, dressing, grooming, mobility, and patient transfers; use a Hoyer lift when appropriate and follow safe lifting practices.
• Observe and report changes in health, take vital signs as assigned, and complete accurate medical documentation and records using electronic medical record (EMR) or electronic health record (EHR) systems.
• Support meal preparation, cooking, cleaning, and laundry according to client preferences and care plans.
• Provide appropriate support for older adults and people with disabilities, including clients receiving dementia, Alzheimer’s, memory, hospice, or end-of-life care.
• Follow home health care regulations, protect confidentiality under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and provide catheter care or medication assistance only as authorized and within applicable requirements.

Skills

• Essential: compassionate caregiving, patient care, personal care assistance, client communication, patient observation, and maintaining patient confidentiality.
• Preferred: home health, home care, home and community care, or home health agency experience; assisted living, nursing home, long-term care, senior care, geriatric, or live-in experience.
• Relevant experience may include developmental disabilities, disabilities, Alzheimer’s, dementia, memory care, hospice, or end-of-life care.
• Familiarity with medical terminology, medical records, EMR/EHR systems, vital signs, catheter care, medication administration, and patient transfer methods is valued.
• First aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or basic life support (BLS) knowledge is preferred; follow safe practices for lifting and client support.

Pay: $14.00 - $22.00 per hour

Work Location: In person