Home Health Aide Lansing

Home Health Aide

Under direct supervision, provides personal and homemaking services to ill, convalescing, elderly, and disabled persons in the patients' home.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Provides personal care of a patient, including bathing, grooming/hygiene, and toileting.
• Takes and records daily vital signs. Reports all vital signs that are outside the normal range.
• Assists patients with positioning/turning, transfers, catheter care, and range of motion exercises.
• Light housekeeping and food preparation.
• Recognizes and reports any unusual, untoward, or new symptoms/changes to the RN.
• May perform functions to support the telehealth program (uninstalls, equipment cleaning and maintenance, installations/setups).
• Performs other related duties as required and directed.

Required:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Successful completion of a written home health/hospice competency test and the clinical skills testing.
• Certification as Home Health Aide (CHHA).

Preferred:

• Six months of experience with a variety of patients.

Position/Subsidiary Specific:

• Valid driver's license, proof of valid auto insurance, and maintain a driving record in accordance with McLaren's corporate driving policy and eligibility guidelines.

Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans