Certified Home Heath Aid- CHHA- Hospice

Preferred Care Management; Freehold (NJ); Vor Ort; USD 32.000 - 42.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Swan Hospice is seeking a CHHA with Hospice experience to join our team in New Jersey. The ideal candidate will provide compassionate in-home care to patients in private homes, assisted living, and skilled facilities.

Responsibilities include ADL support, medications reminders, ROM exercises, and reporting changes to the Hospice Nurse. NJ HHA license and reliable transportation are required; minimum one year hospice experience preferred.

Qualifikationen

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

Aufgaben

• Assists with prescribed exercises and ROM as instructed by the Hospice Nurse.
• Provides assistance with toileting, positioning, transfers, and turning of bed-bound residents.
• Assists with ADLs: personal hygiene, grooming, mouth, skin care and nails.
• Reminds or assists patient with medications following regulatory guidelines.
• Light housekeeping of the patient’s unit/room; changing bed linens and laundry as needed.
• Feeds and assists with meals.
• Records temperature, pulse and respiration as supervised by the Hospice Nurse.
• Reports changes in patient condition to the Hospice Nurse and facility nurse as applicable.

Kenntnisse

Hospice experience

Compassionate care

Dependable transportation

Ausbildung

HHA License NJ

Jobbeschreibung

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