Home Health Aide

Job Description

Job Description

If you are an experienced home health aide who enjoys varied activities that help people lead more independent lives, we’d love to talk to you! We are seeking a kind and compassionate home health aide who has excellent communication and companionship skills to provide basic medical care, light housekeeping duties, personal care, and hygiene tasks so our patients are empowered to live happily at home. You must have 1-3 years of experience in home health, implementing care plans, and making your patients’ health and safety your first priority. If this sounds like the perfect job for you, please apply today!

$17 - $19 hourly

• Take care of light housekeeping tasks including but not limited to vacuuming, bed making, laundry, etc.
• Mitigate issues with medications by helping to open bottles, organizing self-administered dosing, and arranging for refills, and help the patient with meal preparation and planning
• Ambulate patients as indicated in the care plan, and help patients complete exercises and physical therapy as needed
• Facilitate personal care tasks like scheduling appointments, calling doctors’ offices, coordinating Medicare and other insurance details
• Support patients to help them complete personal hygiene tasks like bathing, grooming, toileting, shaving, dressing, etc.

• Administer Medications: Dispense medications as directed by the Registered Nurse (RN), maintaining an annual error rate of no more than one mistake.
• Resident Response: Attend to resident call lights within 10 minutes to ensure responsive and attentive care.
• Light Housekeeping: Perform regular light housekeeping in resident rooms at least once weekly to promote a clean and comfortable living space.
• Service Charting: Accurately document all services provided without missing tasks, ensuring compliance with company standards.
• Assistance with ADLs: Support residents in Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) according to each individual’s Client Service Plan, with a zero-tolerance policy for missed tasks.

• Ability to lift up to 100 lbs, you may be required to stoop, bend, reach, and transfer patients up to 250 lbs as needed
• Pass a full employment background check, drug test, and physical, and possess current CPR certification and first aid training
• Over one year of experience as a personal caregiver, HHA/ home health aide, personal care aid, or nursing assistant for a home health agency, at patient homes, or care facilities settings is vital
• Completion of home health aide training programs from community colleges are acceptable - Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) or Certified Home Health Aide (CHHA) is a plus
• A valid state driver’s license, reliable transportation, and current auto insurance is required

• Accountability & Initiative : Takes responsibility for tasks and outcomes, addressing challenges proactively and finding solutions independently.
• Resourcefulness: Finds effective solutions even with limited resources and independently seeks knowledge.
• Passion for Purpose (Big Why): Possesses a strong, genuine dedication to serving and caring for vulnerable adults.
• Commitment to Growth: Actively pursues self-improvement and team betterment each day.
• Humility: Embraces a solutions-focused attitude, welcoming feedback and putting egos aside for the best outcome.
• Reliability: Shows up on time, prepared, and ready to deliver dependable support.
• Gratitude: Maintains a positive outlook, seeking and appreciating the good in all situations.

We believe in living with a purpose outside ourselves. VitaCare - Bloomer is a community full of people with purpose. Our residents wake up each day with another chance to grow and improve the world around them. Our staff work each day alongside people they care deeply about, in careers that build growth, purpose, and fulfillment.

VitaCare Living is an established Assisted Living and Memory Care provider with one purpose: to add LIFE to the years of our residents and staff. With 17 locations across two states, we care for over 300 residents in smaller, comfortable settings that put community, dignity, and purpose first.