CNA needed!

Visiting Angels Chelsea; Chelsea (MA); On-site; USD 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Visiting Angels Chelsea is seeking a compassionate home health aide to support clients in their own homes in Chelsea, MA. You will assist with daily living activities, monitor health status, and document changes for nursing staff.

Responsibilities include personal care, meal preparation, light housekeeping, transportation support, and teaching families how to manage care.

Responsibilities

• Enables patients to stay home by monitoring condition, providing support, personal services, and teaching families.
• Monitors patient condition by observing physical and mental status, intake/output, and exercise.
• Supports patients with housekeeping, laundry, shopping for food, meals, and errands.
• Assists patients with personal care such as bathing, dressing, and grooming.
• Teaches patients to use cane/walker, eating utensils, and personal hygiene techniques.
• Guides families on lifting/turning/re-positioning the patient.
• Advises on nutrition, cleanliness, and housekeeping.
• Records patient information in journals and notifies nursing staff of changes.
• Maintains a safe home environment by following asepsis standards and dietary requirements.
• Protects the agency by following professional standards and policies.
• Accepts new tasks to add value and expand services.

Job description

Job Responsibilities:

• Enables patients to stay in their homes by monitoring and recording patient condition, providing support and personal services, and teaching families.

• Monitors patient condition by observing physical and mental condition, intake and output, and exercise.

• Supports patients by providing housekeeping and laundry services, shopping for food and other household requirements, preparing and serving meals and snacks, and running errands.

• Assists patients by providing personal services, such as, bathing, dressing, and grooming.

• Helps patients care for themselves by teaching use of cane or walker, special utensils to eat, special techniques and equipment for personal hygiene.

• Helps family members care for the patient by teaching appropriate ways to lift, turn, and re-position the patient.

• Advises on nutrition, cleanliness, and housekeeping.

• Records patient information by making entries in the patient journal and notifying nursing supervisor of changing or unusual conditions.

• Maintains a safe, secure, and healthy patient environment by following asepsis standards and procedures, maintaining security precautions, and following prescribed dietary requirements and nutrition standards.

• Protects the home care agency by adhering to professional standards, home care policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements.

• Enhances service reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests, and exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.