About the Role
We are committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.
Responsibilities
- Maintain a healthy, safe environment, providing nutritional and environmental support.
- Assist with personal hygiene, toileting, dressing, walking, and feeding the client.
- Position the client as instructed.
- Assist with physician-ordered treatments and therapies approved by the nursing supervisor.
- Remind the client to take medications.
- Assist with bill payments only when authorized and documented.
- Run errands when authorized.
- Document on the Aide Charting Sheet daily.
- Report important information or changes in client condition to the agency and/or nursing supervisor.
- Use medical supplies and equipment appropriately.
- Provide emotional support and develop a trusting relationship with the client.
- Encourage client independence.
Requirements
- Must be eighteen (18) years of age or older.
- Must have maturity for establishing and maintaining good work relationships.
- Must have a sincere interest in and a sympathetic attitude towards caring for the sick and disabled.
- 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.
- 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.
Skills
- Caring
- Communication
- Empathy
- Listening
Work Type
- Full-time
Education Level
- Certificate from a Home Health Aide training program consistent with State requirements with evidence of ongoing in-service education to maintain the certificate.
Salary/Compensations
- $18.10 - $21.00 PER HR
About the Company
- If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!
