CERTIFIED HOME HEATH AID- CHHA- HOSPICE

Preferred Care Health Centers; Neptune City (NJ); On-site; USD 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Preferred Care Health Centers is looking for a Certified Home Health Aide (CHHA) with hospice experience to join their team at Swan Hospice in Neptune City, NJ. This role focuses on providing quality care in skilled nursing facilities, assisted living, and private homes.

Ideal candidates should have a NJ HHA License and a minimum of one year experience in hospice care. Dependable transportation is a must along with an understanding of the hospice philosophy. Join our comprehensive team dedicated to treating patients and families with respect and compassion.

Qualifications

• Minimum of one year experience working in hospice.

Responsibilities

• Assist with prescribed exercise and ROM activities as directed by the Hospice Nurse.
• Provide assistance in toileting, positioning, and transfer activities.
• Aid in personal hygiene and grooming activities.
• Assist or remind patients to take medication.
• Help with light housekeeping and changing bed linen.
• Feed and assist with meals.
• Obtain vital signs under supervision of the Hospice Nurse.
• Report changes in patients' conditions to the Hospice Nurse.

Skills

HHA License in the state of NJ

Understanding of hospice philosophy

Dependable transportation

Job description

Swan Hospice is looking for CHHA (Certified Home Health 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

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