Certified Home Health Aide

Hebrew SeniorLife • Dedham, MA

19d • $20 - $28 • Onsite

About The Position

Provides personal care services to Home Health/Hospice patients as prescribed by a physician and in compliance with the state’s nurse practice act, federal regulations, and other regulations governing Massachusetts Home Health/Hospice Aide services. The aide provides services to meet patients’ personal care needs and promote their comfort and dignity. The position reports to the Clinical Manager and works with terminally ill patients and their families or significant others.

Requirements

• Maintains HHA or CNA credentials with appropriate education and timely license renewal.
• Completes 12 hours of discipline-appropriate education in 12 calendar months and earns at least 80% on each quiz.
• Performs clinical and personal care tasks only within the aide’s training limitations and as taught and supervised by an RN where specified.

Responsibilities

• Provides emotional and physical support to terminally ill individuals and their families or significant others.
• Helps improve patients’ quality of life during the final stage of life and provides respite care to family caregivers.
• Promotes patient and family independence and helps maintain a safe, healthful environment.
• Participates in the Interdisciplinary Group as appropriate.
• Assists with personal care, including bathing, mouth and denture care, skin and foot care, grooming, transferring, dressing and undressing, ambulation, and turning and positioning patients for comfort.
• Assists with household tasks essential to the patient’s health, including meal planning and preparation, feeding when appropriate, light housekeeping in the patient’s immediate environment, changing linens and making beds, and laundering patient clothing and bedding.
• Provides companionship and life enrichment activities, such as taking patients outdoors, reading or conversing with them, offering hand massages and other comforting activities, helping them make social calls, and advocating for them with facility staff.
• Measures and records temperatures, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure when ordered and within the aide’s training limitations.
• Meets patients’ safety needs, including safe use of equipment such as foot stools, side rails, step stools, wheelchairs, oxygen, and mechanical lifts.
• Performs range-of-motion exercises and other simple procedures as an extension of therapy services when ordered and within training limitations.
• Reminds patients to take their medications to assist with self-administration.
• Performs or assists with activities in the personal services plan, including ostomy appliance changes, reinforcing or changing simple non-sterile dressings, measuring intake and output, external catheter care, and other tasks taught and supervised by an RN in accordance with state and federal regulations.
• Immediately reports changes in patient condition or incidents to the RN Case Manager or Clinical Manager of Hospice Services.
• Documents services accurately on the day they are provided, dates and signs documentation with credentials, and submits it in a timely manner.
• Participates in appropriate staff development and discipline-specific education, completing 12 hours within each 12-calendar-month period and passing each quiz with a score of at least 80%.
• Maintains aide skills and follows Hospice policies and procedures on an ongoing basis.
• Maintains HHA or CNA credentials through appropriate education and timely license renewal.
• Performs other duties as assigned by a superior.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed