Home Health Aide (HHA)

VITAS Healthcare; Bakersfield (CA); Sur place; USD 30 307 - 31 684; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A healthcare services company is urgently hiring a Home Health Aide (HHA) in Bakersfield, California. The role involves providing personal care and support to hospice patients, assisting with daily activities, and ensuring a safe environment. Ideal candidates should be high school graduates and have completed required training. Salary range is $22–$23 per hour, with various responsibilities assigned directly by nursing staff.

Qualifications

• Meets personnel qualifications of a Home Health Aide as specified in regulations.
• Documented evidence of 75 hours of training as specified.
• Documented evidence of completing a Competency Evaluation program.

Responsabilités

• Provide personal care and services to hospice patients.
• Assist in maintaining a safe and healthy environment.
• Observe, report, and document patient status.

Connaissances

Ability to read, write, and carry out directions

Ability to travel per job requirements

Ability to assist in lifting and transferring patients

Formation

High School graduate or equivalent preferred

Description du poste

Urgently Hiring. The VITAS Home Health Aide (HHA) is a non‑exempt employee, trained to provide personal care and services to hospice patients to augment care given by family members or other caregivers. Salary Range: $22–$23 per hour.

Assigned Job Responsibilities

• Performs only those personal care activities contained in a written assignment. HHA assignments may include:
  • Help the patient maintain good personal hygiene.
  • Plan and prepare meals; feed or assist with feeding the patient when needed.
  • Assist with patient ambulation.
  • Assist with certain treatments as ordered by the physician and taught and supervised by the nurse for a specific patient, including: change of the colostomy bag; use of a walker or wheelchair; reinforcement of a dressing; prescribed range‑of‑motion exercises; prescribed ice cap or collar; measure intake and output of fluids; and assist with medications that are ordinarily self‑administered.
  • Read and record temperature, pulse, and respiration.

Other Responsibilities

• Assist in maintaining a safe and healthy environment.
• Promote the patient’s mental alertness through involvement in activities of interest.
• Provide simple emotional and psychological support to the patient, family, and other caregivers.
• Report any changes in the patient’s mental or physical condition or home situation to the VITAS Nurse and members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Teach basic personal care to the primary caregiver.
• Practice basic infection control measures.
• Observe, report, and document patient status and the care and activities provided.
• Complete at least 12 hours of in‑service training per calendar year.
• Handle other tasks as assigned.

Responsibilities That May Not Be Performed

• Be assigned by VITAS to any institutional setting.
• Change sterile dressings.
• Irrigate body cavities (e.g., an enema).
• Irrigate a colostomy or wound.
• Perform a gastric lavage or gavage.
• Catheterize a patient.
• Administer medications.
• Apply heat by any method.
• Care for a tracheotomy tube.
• Suction a patient.
• Provide any personal care that has not been assigned by the VITAS nurse or included in the plan of care.

Qualifications

• High School graduate or equivalent preferred.
• Meets personnel qualifications of a Home Health Aide as specified in 42 C.F.R. Section 484.4 and Section 484.36.
• Documented evidence of 75 hours of training as specified in 42 C.F.R. Sections 484.36(a)(1).
• Documented evidence that Home Health Aide has successfully completed a Competency Evaluation program as described in 42 C.F.R. Section 484.36(b).

State Allowable Training/Certification

AL, CO, DC, DE, FL, GA, IN, MI, PA, TX, VA, WI – CNA, HHA, HA; CA – CHHA; CT – Homemaker‑Home Health Aide; IL – HHA, NA; KS – Home Health Aide certificate; MO – Home Health Aide; NJ – Homemaker‑Home Health Aide; OH – Home Health Aide.

Special Requirements

• Ability to read, write, and carry out directions.
• Ability to travel per job requirements.
• Telephone available in home.

Essential Functions/Physical Demands

• Assist in lifting and transferring patients as required.
• Lift objects in excess of 20 pounds.
• Stand or walk in excess of one hour per day.
• Be able to talk and hear.

Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The home health aide may be required to sit, stoop, kneel, and crouch. The HHA reports directly to the VITAS Nurse and receives clinical direction from the VITAS Nurse.