Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) - Work-Life Balance

Interim HealthCare Inc.; Alabama; On-site; USD 16,531 - 22,041; Full time

Job summary

Interim HealthCare Inc. is seeking Home Health Aides and CNAs to join our team to provide hands-on personal care in the home setting, report changes, and support therapy or nursing services under policies and regulations.

You will assist with activities of daily living, monitor vitals, promote safety, support transfers, and help with medication reminders or administration as appropriate. Travel is within the service area and documentation of observations is required.

Qualifications

• Must have passed a home health aide written knowledge exam.
• Must pass state criminal and abuse background checks where required.
• Able to communicate effectively in English with all levels of the workforce.
• Able to read, write and verbally report clinical information to patients and staff.
• Able to perform and prioritize multiple tasks.

Responsibilities

• Reads and records temperature, pulse and respirations.
• Assists with activities of daily living (bathing, grooming, oral care, etc.).
• Promotes a safe environment and unobstructed pathways.
• Assists with ambulation, transfers and ROM exercises.
• Assists with incidental activities of daily living (shopping, meals, homemaking).
• Assists with medication reminders and administration where appropriate.
• Documents observations and services provided accurately and timely.
• Travel within geographic service area to patient visits.
• Adheres to infection control policies and PPE usage.
• Follows the assigned care plan and reports changes to supervisor.

Skills

Written knowledge exam

Background checks

English communication

Verbal/written reporting

Multi-tasking

Driver's license

Auto liability insurance

Education

Age 18+

Job description

HHA & CNA Home Health Cases - Join OurTeam !

General Purpose:

Are members of the interdisciplinary team who provide hands‑on personal care, report changes in the patient’s/client’s condition, perform simple procedures as an extension of therapy or nursing services, and provide incidental/instrumental activities of daily living as assigned to patients/clients in the home setting as permitted by the policies and procedures of Interim HealthCare and any other federal, state and local law or regulation.

Essential Functions:

• Reads and records temperature, pulse, and respirations.
• Assists, performs and trains patient/client and family in activities of daily living such as bathing, grooming, nail and skin care, oral hygiene, toileting and elimination and adequate nutritional intake.
• Promotes safe environment and maintain unobstructed pathways while providing care.
• Assists with ambulation, transfers and/or range of motion exercises.
• Assists with incidental/instrumental activities of daily living such as shopping, meal preparation, socialization activities, homemaking and maintaining a clean and safe physical environment.
• Assists in medication reminding.
• Assists in administering medications ordinarily self-administered.
• Utilizes infection prevention and control measures such as universal precautions, hand washing, and personal protective equipment.
• Follows the assignment sheet/service plan performing only tasks that are assigned.
• Recognizes, reports, and records/documents changes in patient/client condition and safety to supervisor.
• Document observations, activities and service provided in an accurate, complete and timely manner.
• Organizes self to carry out visits/shifts and tasks.
• Completes mandatory Interim HealthCare in‑services and provides requested documents to keep employee file current.
• Participates in Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) program, as requested.
• Participates in the Office’s Emergency Preparedness Program, as requested.
• Completes other assignments as requested and assigned.
• Honors patient rights.
• Accesses personal health information (“PHI”) necessary to fulfill the above duties and responsibilities. Access to use and ability to disclose PHI is further defined by each organization/department.

Home Health Aide MAY NOT:

• Perform any skilled nursing procedure, which is prohibited by the State Nurse Practice Act, law or regulation.

Minimum Education & Experience Requirements:

• Eighteen (18) years of age or older.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:

• Evidence of passing a home health aide written knowledge exam.
• Pass state required criminal and abuse background checks where required.
• Able to effectively communicate in English with all levels of the workforce, both clinical and non‑clinical.
• Able to effectively communicate, including the ability to read, write, and verbally report clinical information to patients, patient representatives (if any), patient’s caregivers and family, and agency staff.
• Able to perform and prioritize multiple tasks or functions.
• Able to provide proof of valid driver’s license, if applicable.
• Able to provide proof of valid auto liability insurance if assignment(s) include driving own vehicle to transport patient.

Working Conditions & Physical Effort:

• Able to constantly travel within geographic area serviced by office from assignment to assignment.
• Meets the applicable health requirements to provide patient care per applicable law or regulation.
• Work is normally performed in patient’s home.
• Occasional exposure to communicable diseases, bloodborne pathogens and/or other potentially infectious or hazardous materials and situations that require following extensive safety precautions and may include the use of protective equipment (e.g. face masks, goggles, latex and/or non‑latex gloves).
• Able to constantly stand, bend, stoop, squat, kneel and reach freely.
• Able to frequently lift, reposition, and transfer clients/patients.
• Able to frequently carry bundles such as groceries and laundry up or down stairs and lift with or without assistance.
• Able to constantly grasp with thumb in opposition to fingers of palm (i.e. DME supplies, knobs or objects).
• Able to read 8 point or larger type.
• Medium physical activity that may require frequent lifting, carrying, pushing or pulling up to 50 lbs.