About This Role
Caring for patients in their homes, helping them regain strength, mobility, and independence, is the core of this Home Health Aide position. You will deliver personalized care focused on rehabilitation and functional improvement, empowering individuals to overcome physical limitations and perform everyday activities with confidence.
Responsibilities
- Provide direct patient care under the direction of the RN and according to the Aide Plan of Care (POC)
- Assist the patient with self-administered medications by opening bottle caps, reading labels, checking doses, and observing medication intake
- Take accurate temperature, pulse, and blood pressure measurements and report abnormal results to the supervisor
- Help patients maintain good personal hygiene by performing or supervising bathing, grooming, skin care, shaving, oral care, nail/foot care, and other activities
- Assist in feeding patients, communicate basic principles of nutrition, and observe and record food and fluid intake
- Safely position patients for meals and feed or support self-feeding
- Assist with patient toileting, including use of bedpan/urinal, changing and positioning catheter bags, and bag change procedures on well-regulated ostomies
- Provide necessary skills to safely assist the patient with mobility, exercises, positioning/turning, transfers, and ambulation per Plan of Care and Center Well Home Health policy
- Report changes and document pertinent information and care rendered to patients to ensure continuity of care
- Document interactions with patients, caregivers, doctors, and other staff members appropriately, legibly, thoroughly, and within allowed time
- Practice acceptable infection control principles
- Provide a clean, safe, and comfortable environment
- Help with other household tasks, including light laundry, bed changing and bed making, light meal preparation, light housekeeping, and shopping (if no other assistance is available and an MD order is present)
Requirements
- Complete Certified Nursing Assistant or Certified Home Health Aide Program within the last 24 months
- Meet applicable state certification requirements
- A valid driver's license, auto insurance, and reliable transportation are required
- Be in good standing on the HHA Registry (if applicable) and have completed HHA/CNA course to work for a Medicare certified agency
- Minimum one year experience in the last 24 months as a Home Health Aide or Certified Nursing Assistant in a hospital, nursing home, home health/hospice agency
Important Details
- Scheduled Weekly Hours: 1
About the Company
Center Well Home Health helps patients regain strength, mobility, and independence from the comfort of their homes.
