Certified Home Heath Aid- CHHA- Hospice

Preferred Care Management; Middlesex (NJ); On-site; USD 19,000 - 25,000; 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 various settings and value kindness, respect, compassion, and dignity in our care.

Ideal candidates have a NJ HHA license, hospice experience, and dependable transportation. Responsibilities include assisting with exercises, ADLs, medication reminders, and reporting changes to the Hospice Nurse, while ensuring patient comfort and safety in their

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Assist with prescribed exercise and ROM activities as taught by the Hospice Nurse.
• Provide assistance in toileting, positioning and transfers for bed-bound residents.
• Assist with ADLs including hygiene, grooming, mouth and skin care.
• Remind or assist patient with medications under supervision and regulations.
• Help with light housekeeping of the resident's unit and patient laundry.
• Feed and assist with meals as needed.
• Record vital signs and report changes to the Hospice Nurse.
• Communicate changes to facility staff when applicable and document details.

Skills

Hospice care experience

Compassionate care

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