Hospice Aide PRN

Job Description

Job Description

At Choice Hospice , our Hospice Aides are the reason patients stay comfortable, safe, and treated with dignity at home. You’re not “helping with care”—you are the care.

• Hands-on care that truly changes a patient’s day (bathing, grooming, comfort care, etc.)
• Helping patients move safely and stay as independent as possible
• Noticing changes and speaking up—because you are their eyes and ears
• Keeping patients clean, safe, and comfortable in their own home
• Supporting nutrition and hydration when it matters most
• Working closely with an RN team that actually listens to you
• Treating every home like it matters—because it does

• Compassion that can’t be faked
• Reliability (patients count on you showing up)
• Respect for patients, families, and their space
• Willingness to be part of a real care team—not just “tasks”

As a Hospice Aide, you will:

• Provide direct patient care to patients under direction of the RN and according to the Aid Plan of Care.

• Provide necessary skills to assist the patient with safe transfers and ambulation per agency policy.

• Provide necessary skill to appropriately report changes and document pertinent information and care rendered to patients to ensure continuity of care.

• Practice accepted infection control principles. Provide a clean, safe and comfortable environment.

• Promote positive, supportive, respectful communication to patient/family and other employees.

• Provide an environment which promotes respect for patients, privacy and property.

• Provide skills necessary to assist the patient with proper nutrition and adequate fluid intake.

• Contribute to the management and efficient operation of the agency and demonstrate effective time management skills.

• Provide skills necessary to perform treatments and procedures according to agency policy.

• Promote the agency philosophy and administrative policies to ensure quality of care.

Requirements

• Current CNA/HHA & LTC certifications

• Valid Driver’s License

• Valid Auto Insurance

• CPR Certification

• HomeCare HomeBase experience preferred