Personal Care Aide/Home Health Aide

Home Health Aide

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Essential Duties And Responsibilities:

By following the care plan that has been completed by the nursing supervisor, the home health aide provides assistance with the following:

• Maintain a healthy, safe environment. Providing nutritional and environmental support.
• Assist with personal hygiene, toileting, dressing, walking and feeding the client.
• Position the client when instructed to do so.
• Assist with certain treatments and therapy as ordered by the physician and approved by the nursing supervisor.
• Remind the client to take medications.
• Assist with payment of bills only when authorized to do so and it is documented on the assignment sheet.
• Run errands when authorized to do so. Documentation on the aide charting sheet daily.
• Report any important information or changes in the client's condition to the agency and/or the nursing supervisor when necessary.
• Use of medical supplies and equipment when appropriate.
• Emotional support and the development of a trusting relationship between the aide and the client.
• Encouragement of client independence.

Qualifications/Education:

• Must be eighteen (18) years of age or older.
• Must have a certificate from a home health aide training program consistent with state requirements with evidence of ongoing in-service education to maintain the certificate.
• Must have the maturity necessary for establishing and maintaining a good work relationship with the client, the client's family and agency personnel.
• Have a sincere interest in and a sympathetic attitude towards caring for the sick and disabled.

A Home Health Aide Must:

• Get along well with others.
• Be dependable and trustworthy.
• Maintain compliance with all agency policies and procedures.
• Maintain in-service requirements as specified in state and agency regulations.
• Be a good listener, exhibit empathy for the sick, disabled and elderly, and be sensitive to the feelings of others.
• Be neatly dressed and have good personal hygiene habits.
• Maintain good health habits with regular physical and dental exams.
• Wear an identification badge while working.

Functional Abilities:

• Able to lift, turn and transfer clients.
• Able to lift up to 50 pounds.
• Must be able to stoop and bend.
• Visual/hearing ability sufficient to comprehend written and verbal communication.
• Able to verbalize so that the average person can understand.
• Provide direct care according to the established client plan of care.
• Carry out a wide variety of tasks under the direction of the nursing supervisor.

Work Environment:

Regular exposure to client elements and occasional stress.

$18.65-$23.00/hr. based on location and case details