Long Shifts - Home Care Aides - PCA, HHA, CNA

Accent Health Care Services, Inc., a licensed home care agency in Troy NY, is looking for Home Care Aides - PCA, HHA, or CNA - to join our team.

Must be certified PCA, HHA, or CNA to apply.

Job Title

Personal Care Aide (PCA) Job Locations: Petersburgh NY, Hoosick Falls NY, Averill Park NY, Castleton-On-Hudson NY and more Available Shifts: 4 to 8 hour shifts Pay Rate: $18.65 / hour

$300 New Hire Sign On Bonus

* (For Qualified New Hires!)

Personal Care Aide Job Description

Personal care services include assistance with personal hygiene, dressing, feeding and incidental household tasks, essential to the provision of home health care, in accordance with a plan of care, and supervised by a registered professional nurse.

*Essential Functions include:*

• Completes all duties listed on the aide care plan.
• Assists with personal care of the client, including: bathing, skin care, mouth care, hair care, shampoo, shaving, dressing, Assistance on and off bedpan. commode, toilet, as documented by review of daily activity record and direct observation.
• May assist with transfer to or from bed, chair, or wheelchair, and with ambulation after proper instruction.
• Prepare and serve meals and assist with feeding as documented by review of daily activity record.
• Preparation of meals in accordance with modified diets, including low sugar, low fat, low salt and low residue diets, as prescribed by a qualified professional. Assists with preparation of mechanically altered diets (puree, chopped, ground).
• Assist with routine skin care, including application of non-prescription skin care products.
• Assist with changing simple dressing.
• Measure intake and output when requested and keeps record of same
• Weighing of client.
• Performs incidental household task essential to the client's physical and psychological well-being. These tasks include, but are not limited to, light housekeeping, making and changing the client's be...