Certified Home Health Aide(HHA)Personal Care Aide(PCA)-Hempstead

Always Compassionate Health • Hempstead, NY

89d • $19

About The Position

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. The Home Health Aide provides assistance by following the Care Plan completed by the Nursing Supervisor, ensuring a healthy and safe environment, assisting with personal hygiene, toileting, dressing, walking, and feeding the client, and providing emotional support while encouraging client independence.

Requirements

• Must be eighteen (18) years of age or older.
• Must have a certificate from a Home Health Aide training program consistent with State requirements.
• Evidence of ongoing in-service education to maintain the certificate.
• Must have the maturity necessary for establishing and maintaining a good work relationship with the client, the client's family, and agency personnel.
• Have a sincere interest in and a sympathetic attitude towards caring for the sick and disabled.
• Get along well with others.
• Be dependable and trustworthy.
• Maintain compliance with all agency policies and procedures.
• Maintain in-service requirements as specified in State and agency regulations.
• Be a good listener, exhibit empathy for the sick, disabled, and elderly, and be sensitive to the feelings of others.
• Be neatly dressed and have good personal hygiene habits.
• Maintain good health habits with regular physical and dental exams.
• Wear an identification badge while working.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a healthy, safe environment.
• Provide nutritional and environmental support.
• Assist with personal hygiene, toileting, dressing, walking, and feeding the client.
• Position the client when instructed to do so.
• Assist with certain treatments and therapy as ordered by the physician and approved by the nursing supervisor.
• Remind the client to take medications.
• Assist with payment of bills ONLY when authorized to do so and it is documented on the assignment sheet.
• Run errands when authorized to do so.
• Document on the Aide Charting Sheet daily.
• Report any important information or changes in the client's condition to the agency and/or the nursing supervisor when necessary.
• Use medical supplies and equipment when appropriate.
• Provide emotional support and develop a trusting relationship with the client.
• Encourage client independence.

Benefits

• $19.10 and up hourly rate.
• Private Pay Cases Available.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees