Home Care Aide

Home Care Aide

A Home Care Aide performs tasks that enable the client to remain in the home by supplementing the client's abilities for home management.

Essential Job Functions/Responsibilities:

1. Assists or performs personal care tasks including ADLs and IADLs to enable client to remain safe in the home environment, maintain capacity to function, delay disease and prevent regression.

2. Provides homemaking services for the ill, injured, impaired, disabled or aged.

3. Observes the client for changes in general physical and mental conditions. Reports any changes noted to the clinical manager or supervisor.

4. Keeps the home clean and orderly.

5. Plans meals and purchases food and household supplies, as appropriate.

6. Prepares and serves nutritious meals according to the client's and caregiver's needs and the client's service delivery plan.

7. Washes dishes and cleans the kitchen after meals.

8. Assists the client and caregiver in the practice of safety, hygiene, and good nutrition where possible.

9. Does client's laundry.

10. Adheres to the documentation and care procedures and standards of personal and professional conduct.

Position Qualifications:

1. Is at least eighteen years of age.

2. Has at least one year of experience as a caregiver, homemaker or home care aide.

3. Has work or life experience as a caregiver, homemaker or home care aide.

4. Successfully completes the home health aide competency evaluation.

5. Has the ability to read and follow written instructions and documents services provided.

6. Has empathy for the needs of the ill, injured, frail and impaired.

7. Must be a licensed driver with a vehicle that is insured in accordance with state and organization requirements and is in good working order OR must maintain a safe and efficient method of transportation aimed at arriving to work as scheduled.

Job Limitations:

The home care aide will not function in any manner viewed as the practice of nursing according to the Utah Nurse Practice Act. Specifically, the home care aide will not administer medications, take physician's orders or perform procedures requiring the training, knowledge and skill of a licensed nurse.

The employer for this position is The Pennant Group, Inc., a holding company of independent operating subsidiaries that provide healthcare services through home health and hospice agencies and senior living communities located throughout the US.