Home Health Aide (HHA)/CNA

VITAS Healthcare; Davenport (FL); On-site; USD 23,419 - 24,796; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Florida is seeking a Home Health Aide (HHA)/CNA to provide personal care and support to hospice patients. The ideal candidate will assist with daily activities, ensure patient comfort, and document care effectively. Candidates must possess a high school diploma and complete 75 hours of training. This full-time role offers competitive hourly pay ranging from $17 to $18.

Qualifications

• Ability to follow directions and communicate effectively.
• Ability to travel as required by job.
• Physical capability to lift objects over 20 pounds.

Responsibilities

• Provide personal care to hospice patients.
• Assist with activities of daily living.
• Report changes in patient's condition.

Skills

Personal care activities

Emotional support

Basic infection control

Documenting patient status

Education

High school graduate or equivalent

75 hours of training

Competency Evaluation completion

Job description

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The VITAS Home Health Aide (HHA) is a non‑exempt employee who is trained to provide personal care and services to hospice patients, augmenting care given by family members or other caregivers. Salary Range: $17‑$18 per hour.

Assigned Job Responsibilities

• Perform only those personal care activities contained in a written assignment, such as maintaining personal hygiene, planning and preparing meals, assisting with ambulation and specific treatments including changing the colostomy bag, assisting with walker or wheelchair use, supervising and measuring intake and output of fluids.
• Read and record temperature, pulse and respiration.
• 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 to the VITAS Nurse and team.
• Teach basic personal care to the primary caregiver.
• Practice basic infection control measures.
• Observe, report and document patient status and care and activities provided.
• Complete at least 12 hours of in‑service training per calendar year.
• Handle other tasks as assigned.

Restricted Activities

• Be assigned to any institutional setting.
• Change sterile dressings.
• Irrigate body cavities or a colostomy or wound.
• Perform 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 not assigned by the VITAS nurse or included in the plan of care.

Qualifications

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

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

• 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 include close vision, distance vision, and 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