CERTIFIED HOME HEALTH AID

Apploi; Flint (MI); On-site; USD 34,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Swan Hospice is seeking a Certified Home Health Aide (CHHA) with hospice experience to join our team. We provide quality hospice care to patients in skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, and in private homes.

We value kindness, respect, compassion, and dignity for residents, families, and staff. Ideal candidates will have an HHA license (NJ), understand the hospice philosophy, have at least one year of hospice experience, and dependable transportation to cover various care

Qualifications

• Minimum of one year experience working in hospice.
• Understands the hospice philosophy.
• Dependable transportation required.

Responsibilities

• Assists with prescribed exercise and ROM activities as taught by Hospice Nurse.
• Assists with toileting, positioning and transfer of residents/patients.
• Provides or assists in ADL activities: personal hygiene, grooming, mouth, skin care and nails.
• Assists or reminds patient to take medications in compliance with regulations.
• Performs light housekeeping of the resident's/patient's unit, including changing bed linen and patient laundry.
• Feeds and assists with meals.
• Obtains temperature, pulse and respiration as supervised by the Hospice Nurse.
• Reports changes in resident's/patient's condition to Hospice Nurse and documents information with date/time.

Skills

Hospice experience

Empathy

Dependable transportation

Education

HHA License NJ

Job description

Swan Hospice is looking for CHHA ( Certified Home Heath Aid ) with Hospice experience to join our team.

We provide quality hospice care to patients in skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities and in private homes. We treat residents, families and loved ones with kindness, respect, compassion and dignity. We have a comprehensive team that can provide support and stability to residents and staff.

Job Responsibilities

• Assists with the prescribed exercise and ROM activities which the resident/patient and Hospice aide have been taught by the Hospice Nurse.
• Provides assistance in toileting; positioning and transfer activities, frequent turning and positioning of a bed bound resident/patient.
• Provides or assists in ADL activities; personal hygiene, grooming, mouth, skin care and nails.
• Assists or reminds the patient to take medication, in compliance with regulations of appropriate regulatory and accrediting bodies.
• Assists with light housekeeping of individual's personal unit or room, including changing of bed linen, if needed and patient laundry.
• Feeds and assists with meals.
• Obtains temperature, pulse and respiration as supervised by the Hospice Nurse.
• Reports any changes in resident's/patient's condition to the Hospice Nurse and, if in a facility, to the facility nurse and documents the information , including the date and time of the report and the person receiving the information.

Ideal candidates will have:

• HHA License in the state of NJ
• Understands the hospice philosophy
• Minimum of one year experience working in hospice
• Dependable transportation