Home Health Aides

Job Duties: - Monitor the health status of an individual with disabilities or illness, and address their health-related needs, such as changing bandages, dressing wounds, or administering medication. - Work is performed under the direction of offsite or intermittent onsite licensed nursing staff. - Provide assistance with routine healthcare tasks or activities of daily living, such as feeding, bathing, toileting, or ambulation. - May also help with tasks such as preparing meals, doing light housekeeping, and doing laundry depending on the patient's abilities. Requirements: - Must complete a state-established or other training program training program that contain classroom and supervised practical training totaling at least 75 hours, with at least 16 hours devoted to supervised practical training. - Must have an additional twenty (20) hour supplemental course unless they can provide documentation that their C.N.A. course included the forty (40) hours of home health aide training. - Must receive no less than three (3) hours of in-service training per calendar quarter. - Must hold a certificate from the State of Florida. - Must have four (4) hours of HIV / AIDS education - Must comply with the requirements for Good Moral Character Screening and Criminal Records Check. - Must pass a competency evaluation test. - Must have tact, good judgment and maturity in dealing with the ill. - Be able to understand and carryout directions. - Be able to read, write and keep accurate records. - Must have an interest in people and a compassionate attitude toward the care of the sick. - Must be neat in appearance, practices and have good personal hygiene. - Be able to deal effectively with the demands of the job.