Home Care Float Aide CNA

At Home Care Missouri•Springfield, MO

23d

About The Position

Job Purpose: The basic function of a Home Health Aide/Consumer Directed Service (CDS) Attendant is to perform tasks that enable clients remain in their own homes and out of long-term care facilities for as long as possible. Help patients to complete activities of daily living that are difficult for them because of a physical or mental disability. Provide assistance with intermittent household task necessary to the maintenance of a safe and habitable home environment. The service is restricted to non-skilled tasks and the need for services is determined in relationships to the client’s functioning capacity.

Requirements

Home Care aide must be 18 years of age.
Home Care Aide must be physically able to lift a minimum of 75 lbs. and be able to move patient without any assistance from the patient.
Home Care Aide must also be able to help assist the patient with walking through use of a cane, walker or gait belt throughout the facility or client’s home.

Nice To Haves

A minimum of one year experience of direct patient care with either a Skilled Nursing facility or an In-Home Care Agency in preferred.
Home Health Aide education

Responsibilities

Planning, preparation and clean–up of meals
Making beds and changing linens with the participants in or out of bed as required
Brushing, combing, and shampooing hair
Giving bed baths or assist with shower or tub bath
Assist with oral care such as brushing teeth or denture care when participant is unable.
Giving assistance to and from the bed to a wheelchair, walker or chair when a participant is weight bearing.
Assisting the participants with ordinarily self-administered medications (open bottles, get water)
Tidying and dusting the home;
Cleaning kitchen counters, cupboards, and appliances, including oven, surface burners and fridge
Laundering clothes and linens;
Making beds and changing sheets;
Sweeping and/or vacuuming, and mopping floors;
Bagging trash inside the home and putting it out for pick-up;
Shopping for essential items (e.g., groceries, cleaning supplies, etc.);
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