Certified Home Health Aide For Home Health Visits

Obran Coop; Torrance (CA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a compassionate healthcare team as a Certified Home Health Aide, where you'll provide essential personal care to patients in their homes. This role offers the chance to make a real difference in the lives of the ill and frail, ensuring their comfort and safety. With a focus on quality care, you'll work under the supervision of registered nurses, performing vital tasks that promote patient well-being. This innovative cooperative company is dedicated to empowering its employees, offering a supportive environment where your contributions are valued. If you are passionate about helping others and want to be part of a mission-driven organization, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Flexible schedule

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Qualifications

• Must be at least 18 years old and able to document care given.
• Shows proof of registration on the Home Care Aide Registry preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide personal care including bathing, dressing, and grooming.
• Assist with medication administration and monitor patient conditions.
• Maintain cleanliness in the patient's living area and prepare meals.

Skills

Empathy

Self-direction

Communication

Ability to follow instructions

Education

Completion of a training and competency evaluation program

Current CPR certification

Job description

Physicians Choice Home Health is recruiting for a Certified Home Health Aide to join our Home Healthcare Team. In this role, you will be responsible for providing quality home health visits to our patients in the comfort of their home. You will be joining a team of compassionate and dedicated healthcare professionals who are committed to providing the highest level of care to our patients.

The home health aide is a paraprofessional member of the home care team who works under the supervision of a registered nurse or therapist and performs various personal care services as necessary to meet the patient’s needs. The home health aide is responsible for observing patients, reporting these observations and documenting observations and care performed.

The home health aide will be assigned in a manner that promotes quality, continuity and safety of a patient’s care.

Physicians Choice Home Health is an Obran Cooperative Company. Obran Health is building the largest worker-owned home-based healthcare company in the US. We know the frustrations that come when working at a traditional healthcare employer - we’ve been there. That is why we created Obran Health. Obran Cooperative businesses give voice, power, and a share of the profits to each of our employee members. We are recruiting for healthcare professionals that want the chance to really own their work and have a say in the organization where they work.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities of the home health aide include, but are not limited to, providing hands-on personal care including the following:

• Baths
• Back rubs
• Oral hygiene
• Shampoos
• Changing bed linen
• Assisting patients with dressing and undressing
• Skin care to prevent breakdown
• Assisting the patient with toileting activities
• Keeping patient’s living area clean and orderly, as appropriate
• Planning and preparing nutritious meals
• Assisting in feeding the patient, if necessary
• Taking and recording oral, rectal and axillary temperatures, pulse, respiration and blood pressure when ordered (with appropriate completed/demonstrated skills competency)
• Assisting in ambulation and exercise according to the plan of care
• Performing range of motion and other simple procedures as an extensional therapy service as ordered (with appropriate completed/demonstrated skills competency)
• Performing simple procedures as an extension of nursing services as ordered (with appropriate completed/demonstrated skills competency)
• Assisting patients in the self-administration of medication
• Doing the patient's laundry, as appropriate
• Meeting safety needs of patients and using equipment safely and properly (foot stools, side rails, etc.)
• Reporting on the patient's condition and significant changes to the assigned nurse
• Adhering to the Physician’s Choice Home Health documentation and care procedures and standards of personal and professional conduct

Minimum Requirements

• Meets the training requirements and successfully completed:
  • A training and competency evaluation program that meets §484.80 (b) and (c); or
  • A competency evaluation that meets the requirements of §484.80 (c); or
  • A nurse aide training and competency evaluation approved by the state as meeting the requirements of §483.151 through §483.154 and is currently in good standing on the state nurse aide registry; or
  • The requirements of a state licensure program that meets the provisions of §484.80 (b) and (c).
• Shows proof of registration on the Home Care Aide Registry through the Department of Social Services, Home Care Services Bureau, preferred.
• At least 18 years of age.
• Ability to read and follow written instructions and document care given.
• Self-directing with the ability to work with little direct supervision.
• Empathy for the needs of the ill, injured, frail and the impaired.
• Possess and maintain current CPR certification.
• Discretion in dealing with sensitive and confidential information.

Full time employees are eligible for:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Flexible schedule
• Short- and long-term disability

Equal Opportunities and Accommodations

Obran is deeply committed to creating workplaces and a community of members where equity is prioritized and valued. We believe that traditional corporations’ bad behavior disproportionately hurts the most marginalized people in society — including people of color, people from working class backgrounds, women and LGBTQ+ people. We believe that these communities must be centered in the work we do. Hence, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.

Obran is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in the employment application process. To request an accommodation, please contact Obran Careers at [e-mail] at least one week in advance of your interview.