Home Health Aide Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Home Health Aide certification required.
• Ability to read, speak, and write English required.
• A genuine interest in working with geriatric residents required.
• Valid driver’s license and dependable vehicle required.
• Must be able to communicate with co-workers, residents, and residents’ families.
• Must be dependable, prompt, tactful, and patient, and remain client-focused and professional.
• Must demonstrate safe use and knowledge of medical equipment, including wheelchairs, walkers, canes, belts, splints, and braces.
• Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds throughout the shift.
• Must be able to handle multiple tasks, prioritize, and concentrate on more than one task at a time.

Nice To Haves

• High school diploma or GED preferred.
• Prior experience working with residents with dementia preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assist clients with personal care according to the 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 clients’ health, including planning and preparing nutritious meals, feeding when appropriate, light housekeeping, changing linens, making beds, and doing laundry.
• Count, dispense, and assist residents with medications, and complete required documentation. Medication assistance is limited to reminders and support for self-directing clients; aides may not administer medication.
• Immediately report changes in residents’ conditions, incidents, or accidents to the Charge person or supervisor.
• Measure and record oral, rectal, or auxiliary temperatures, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure when ordered.
• Monitor residents and recognize and report changes in their condition to the supervisor.
• Assist with orientation and training of new employees.
• Maintain cordial relationships with clients and their families.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Travel or transport residents as needed.