Home Health Aide HHA

VITAS Healthcare; Whittier (CA); On-site; USD 22,041 - 34,440; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Whittier is seeking a Home Health Aide (HHA) responsible for supporting hospice patients by helping with personal care and daily activities. This full-time entry-level position involves assisting with hygiene, meal preparation, and providing emotional support. Applicants should have a high school diploma and complete specific training requirements. If you are compassionate and eager to make a difference in patient care, apply now for this fulfilling opportunity.

Qualifications

• Must be a high school graduate or equivalent.
• Must document 75 hours of training specific to Home Health Aide.
• Ability to read, write, and carry out directions.

Responsibilities

• Help the patient maintain good personal hygiene.
• Plan and prepare meals.
• Assist with patient ambulation.
• Provide simple emotional and psychological support.

Skills

Ability to maintain personal hygiene

Basic infection control measures

Emotional and psychological support

Education

High School graduate or equivalent preferred

75 hours of training as specified by regulations

Job description

Home Health Aide (HHA) – VITAS Healthcare

The VITAS Home Health Aide (HHA) is a non-exempt employee, who is trained to provide personal care and services to hospice patients to augment care given by family members or other caregivers.

Salary Range: $16 - $25 / Hour

Assigned Job Responsibilities

• Help the patient maintain good personal hygiene.
• Plan and prepare meals; feed or assist with feeding the patient when needed.
• Assist the patient ambulation.
• Assist with certain treatments as ordered by the physician, and taught and supervised by the nurse for a specific patient including: assist with the change of the colostomy bag; assist with the use of a walker or wheelchair; reinforcement of a dressing; assist with prescribed range of motion exercises; assist with 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 for the Home Health Aide (HHA) NOT INCLUDED IN WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT MAY INCLUDE:

• 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.

The Home Health Aide (HHA) May Not

• Be assigned by VITAS to any institutional setting.
• Change sterile dressings.
• Irrigate body cavities (such as 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. Sections 484.4 and 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

The physical demands described for the Home Health Aide (HHA) are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of the Home Health Aide (HHA), the employee is regularly required to:

• 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.
• Talk and hear.

Specific vision abilities required by the Home Health Aide (HHA) include:

• Close vision.
• Distance vision.
• Ability to adjust focus.

The Home Health Aide (HHA) will be required to sit and stoop, kneel, and crouch.

Direction Received

• Reports directly to the VITAS Nurse.
• Receives clinical direction from the VITAS Nurse.

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Health Care Provider

Industries

Hospitals and Health Care