Home Health Aide
About The Position
The Home Health Aide is a member of the Courtyards team who assists with residents’ personal care, social, and environmental needs. The role supports residents with daily living activities, meals, medication assistance, and companionship in a home-like setting. The aide provides personal care according to each resident’s care plan, assists with household tasks essential to health, monitors and reports changes in condition, and records vital signs when ordered. The role may also involve travel or transporting residents as needed, assisting with orientation and training of new employees, and maintaining cordial relationships with residents and their families.
Requirements
- Home Health Aide certification.
- Ability to read, speak, and write English.
- Genuine interest in working with geriatric residents.
- Ability to communicate with co-workers, residents, and residents’ families.
- Dependability, punctuality, tact, patience, and a client-focused, professional manner.
- Valid driver’s license and dependable vehicle.
- Ability to safely use and demonstrate knowledge of medical equipment, including wheelchairs, walkers, canes, belts, splints, and braces.
- Ability to lift up to 25 pounds throughout the shift.
- Ability to concentrate on multiple tasks, handle competing demands, and prioritize as needed.
Nice To Haves
- High school diploma or GED.
- Prior experience working with residents with dementia.
Responsibilities
- Assist clients with personal care according to the personal services care plan, including bathing, oral and denture care, skin and foot care, ambulation, toileting, transfers, dressing, grooming, and positioning.
- Assist with household tasks essential to the client’s health, including planning and preparing nutritious meals, feeding when appropriate, light housekeeping, changing linens, making beds, and laundering clothing and bedding.
- Count, dispense, and assist residents with medications, and complete necessary documentation. Aide may remind clients, read labels, bring medications to clients, and position them, but may not administer medications; the client must be self-directing.
- Immediately report changes in a resident’s condition, incidents, or accidents to the Charge person.
- Measure and record oral, rectal, and auxiliary temperatures, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure when ordered.
- Monitor residents and report changes in their condition to the supervisor.
- Assist in orienting and training new employees.
- Maintain cordial relationships with clients and their families.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
