Compassionate Hospice Home Health Aide (CHHA) | NJ

Preferred Care Management; New Jersey; On-site; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Swan Hospice in Monmouth County, New Jersey is seeking a Certified Home Health Aide (CHHA) with hospice experience to join our team. We provide quality hospice care to residents in skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities and in private homes, and we treat residents, families and loved ones with kindness, respect and dignity.

Ideal candidates will have a NJ HHA license, understand the hospice philosophy, and at least one year of hospice experience along with dependable

Qualifications

• NJ HHA license required.
• Understands hospice philosophy.
• Minimum of one year hospice experience.
• Dependable transportation.

Responsibilities

• Assists with prescribed exercises and ROM activities taught by the Hospice Nurse.
• Provides assistance in toileting, positioning and transfer activities, frequent turning and positioning of a bed-bound resident.
• Assists with ADL activities: personal hygiene, grooming, mouth, skin care and nails.
• Reminds or assists the patient to take medications, per regulations of relevant bodies.
• Assists with light housekeeping of the resident's room or unit, including bed linen changes and patient laundry.
• Feeds and assists with meals.
• Obtains temperature, pulse and respiration as supervised by the Hospice Nurse.
• Reports changes in resident/patient condition to the Hospice Nurse and, in a facility, to the facility nurse with date/time and recipient information.

Skills

HHA license NJ

Hospice philosophy

Hospice experience

Dependable transport

Job description

Swan Hospice in Monmouth County, New Jersey is seeking a Certified Home Health Aide (CHHA) with hospice experience to join our team. We provide quality hospice care to residents in skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities and in private homes, and we treat residents, families and loved ones with kindness, respect and dignity.

Ideal candidates will have a NJ HHA license, understand the hospice philosophy, and at least one year of hospice experience along with dependable