Certified Home Heath Aid- CHHA- CNA Hospice-Burlington

Swan Hospice; New Jersey; On-site; USD 29,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Swan Hospice seeks a Certified Home Health Aide (CHHA) with hospice experience to join our team in New Jersey. We provide compassionate care to residents in skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, and private homes, upholding kindness, respect, and dignity.

A strong team supports residents and staff with stability and reliability. Ideal candidates will possess an NJ HHA license, hospice experience, and dependable transportation, with at least one year in hospice care.

Qualifications

• HHA license in NJ is required.
• Minimum of one year experience in hospice setting.
• Dependable transportation is required.
• Ability to follow hospice philosophy and care plans.

Responsibilities

• Assists with prescribed exercises and ROM activities.
• Assists with toileting, positioning and transfers; products safety.
• Performs ADL tasks: hygiene, grooming, skin care, nails.
• Reminds or assists patient with medications under supervision.
• Light housekeeping of patient unit including bed linens and laundry.
• Feeds and assists with meals.
• Measures temperature, pulse, and respiration as supervised.
• Reports patient changes to the Hospice Nurse and documents communications.

Skills

HHA license NJ

Hospice experience

Dependable transportation

Patient care

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