Personal Care Aide

Always Compassionate Home Care; Wading River (NY); On-site; USD 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Always Compassionate Health seeks a compassionate Home Health Aide to support clients in a home setting with dignity and respect. You will follow care plans, assist with daily living activities, monitor health status, and communicate changes to supervisors.

The role emphasizes safety, reliable attendance, and compassionate communication with clients and families, ensuring quality home-based care across diverse settings.

Qualifications

• Must be eighteen (18) years of age or older.
• Certificate from a Home Health Aide training program consistent with State requirements.
• Evidence of ongoing in-service education to maintain the certificate.
• Maturity for establishing and maintaining good work relationships with client, family and agency personnel.
• Sympathetic attitude towards caring for sick and disabled.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a healthy, safe environment and provide nutritional and environmental support.
• Assist with personal hygiene, toileting, dressing, walking and feeding the client.
• Position the client as instructed.
• Assist with treatments and therapy as ordered by physician and approved by nursing supervisor.
• Remind the client to take medications.
• Document and report changes to agency or nursing supervisor.

Skills

Dependable

Empathetic listening

Compassionate care

Good listener

Education

Home Health Aide certificate

Ongoing in-service education

Job description

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILTIES

• Maintain a healthy, safe environment. Providing nutritional and environmental support.
• Assist with personal hygiene, toileting, dressing, walking and feeding the client.
• Position the client when instructed to do so.
• Assist with certain treatments and therapy as ordered by the physician and approved by the nursing supervisor.
• Remind the client to take medications.
• Assist with payment of bills ONLY when authorized to do so and it is documented on the assignment sheet.
• Run errands when authorized to do so. Documentation on the Aide Charting Sheet daily.
• Report any important information or changes in the client's condition to the agency and/or the nursing supervisor when necessary.
• Use of medical supplies and equipment when appropriate.
• Emotional support and the development of a trusting relationship between the aide and the client.
• Encouragement of client independence.

QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION

• Must be eighteen (18) years of age or older.
• Must have a certificate from a Home Health Aide training program consistent with State requirements with evidence of ongoing in-service education to maintain the certificate.
• Must have the maturity necessary for establishing and maintaining a good work relationship with the client, the client's family and agency personnel.
• Have a sincere interest in and a sympathetic attitude towards caring for the sick and disabled.

A HOME HEALTH AIDE MUST

• Get along well with others.
• Be dependable and trustworthy.
• Maintain compliance with all agency policies and procedures.
• Maintain in-service requirements as specified in State and agency regulations.
• Enjoy working with others.
• Be a good listener, exhibit empathy for the sick, disabled and elderly, and be sensitive to the feelings of others.
• Be neatly dressed and have good personal hygiene habits.
• Maintain good health habits with regular physical and dental exams.
• Wear an identification badge while working.

FUNCTIONAL ABILITIES

• Able to lift, turn and transfer clients
• Able to lift up to 50 pounds.
• Must be able to stoop and bend.
• Visual/ hearing ability sufficient to comprehend written and verbal communication.
• Able to verbalize so that the average person can understand.
• Provide direct care according to the established client plan of care.
• Carry out a wide variety of tasks under the direction of the nursing supervisor.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Regular exposure to client elements and occasional stress. The hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future. When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity). $19.65+ based on location #WKDPAPCS

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us! Always Compassionate Health provides the highest quality of community home-based services, combined with exceptional compassion and innovation to enhance each patient’s quality of life. By bringing together several of the top home health agencies in the state, we have become one of New York’s leading providers with strategically placed offices that serve thousands of clients every day.