Certified Home Health Aide - FT - Day - LIFE Bordentown NJ

Capital Health (US)•Life, TN

1d•$18 - $21•Onsite

About The Position

This role involves visits to homes, to participants of the LIFE program. The organization offers mileage reimbursement for distances driven. The Certified Home Health Aide maintains a working relationship with various healthcare professionals, administrative staff, outside vendors, caregivers, family members, and building staff. They also maintain a professional relationship with residents, ensuring their privacy, dignity, and independence. The role requires a full understanding of fire, emergency, and safety procedures, adherence to infection control policies, and awareness of the hazards associated with oxygen use. Frequent close communication with the medication assistant, LPN, and RN is essential. The aide provides direct personal care, including bathing, oral hygiene, hair care, ostomy care, and incontinence management. They are responsible for taking and recording vital signs, providing ambulation and transfer assistance, and reporting any changes in resident status or incidents immediately. Additionally, the aide delivers supplies, performs light housekeeping duties such as cleaning, vacuuming, dusting, and laundry assistance, and ensures the cleanliness of common areas and offices. They also assist residents with meal preparation and service, and report any unsafe equipment. The position requires adherence to facility guidelines and governing regulations, and may involve other assigned duties.

Requirements

High School Diploma or GED.
Nursing assistant or home health certification.
One year of experience.
AHA Heartsaver AED
Drivers License

Responsibilities

Provides morning and evening personal care to assigned residents including partial or complete bath, oral hygiene, care of hair, incontinence care including changing adult briefs as needed.
Provides ostomy care.
Takes weights and vital signs including temperature, pulse, respiration and blood pressure monthly and as requested by nurse, records, and reports results.
Provides ambulation assistance as needed.
Assists with transfer to and from bed.
Reports any change in resident status to nurse immediately.
Responds to emergency calls and assists nurse as needed.
Reports any accidents, injuries, or complaints to nurse or administration immediately.
Delivers supplies and equipment to residents.
Provides light housekeeping.
Cleans refrigerator, stove or oven, cabinets, and silverware drawers as needed.
Vacuums and dusts as needed.
Assists with laundry by washing, drying, and folding laundry and putting it away.
Strips and remakes bed as needed at least once a week.
Cleans the bathroom including bathroom floor, vanity, toilet, and shower or bathtub.
Removes trash from resident apartments daily.
Assists resident with meal service as needed including meal preparation and cutting up foods, set-up, clearing and washing dishes.
Reports any unsafe equipment to nurse or administrator.
Maintains the cleanliness and neatness of the wellness office, laundry room, equipment, and inventory supplies.
Removes trash from wellness offices and laundry rooms.
Abides by established guidelines of the facility and governing regulations.
Performs other duties as assigned.