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About the Role

This is a full-time Float CNA/HHA position requiring both certifications. The role involves floating between community work and the Inpatient Unit, with a day shift schedule (8am-4pm or 7am-3pm) and no weekends. An additional $1.50/hour will be added to the base pay rate.

Responsibilities

• Assists with appropriate hygiene and grooming inclusive of bathing, hair shampoo, nail & skin care; oral hygiene; toileting/assistance with elimination; and weights.
• Assists with health related tasks and personal care procedures.
• Assists with activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living (i.e.) answering phone and doing laundry.
• Meets the patient's general nutritional needs through meal preparation and clean up and feeding the patient if necessary.
• Assists in the meal preparation for individuals with special dietary problems under the direction of a professional staff member.
• Understands adequate nutrition and fluid intake.
• Demonstrates effective observation and reporting skills.
• Maintains high level of confidentiality in compliance with HIPPA law and policy.
• Demonstrates appropriate hand hygiene; waste disposal; use of Personal Protective Equipment; Bag (supply/tote) technique; and knowledge of Standard Precautions, inclusive of basic infection control procedures.
• Appropriately explains duties and functions of the Interdisciplinary Team including the role of the Home Health Aide.
• Documents to agency standards.
• Displays the ability to establish priorities and organize work and time appropriately.
• Anticipates problems and modifies plans and procedures to provide solutions.
• Elicited no founded patient/family complaints, staff complaints or unusual occurrences (i.e. reportable incidents).
• Demonstrates ability to communicate with patients and families in a supportive manner that is understandable and culturally appropriate.
• Maintains a clean, safe environment; provides assistance with safe transfer techniques, positioning and ambulation.
• Demonstrates normal range of motion.
• Assists the patient with medication reminders.
• Able to read and record temperature, pulse and respiration.
• Recognizes emergencies and is knowledgeable in applying emergency procedures.
• Is respectful of the patient, his or her privacy and his or her property.
• Assists with appropriate hygiene and grooming inclusive of bathing, hair shampoo, nail & skin care; oral hygiene; toileting/assistance with elimination; taking vital signs, and weights.
• Assists with activities of daily living.
• Feeding the patient if necessary.
• Identifies and reports patient clinical changes and/or body function changes appropriately to RN Case Manager.
• Adheres to requirements of policies and procedures that are both patient focused (clinical) and organizational focused (administrative).
• Maintains the security of patient records.
• Demonstrates understanding of basic knowledge of nursing home and ALF/DD care issues and the ability to carry out assignments.

Requirements

• Must have both certifications to qualify.
• Must have current Driver's License, free of any serious violations, and vehicle required for position.

Skills

• Assists with appropriate hygiene and grooming inclusive of bathing, hair shampoo, nail & skin care; oral hygiene; toileting/assistance with elimination; and weights.
• Assists with health related tasks and personal care procedures.
• Assists with activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living (i.e.) answering phone and doing laundry.
• Meets the patient's general nutritional needs through meal preparation and clean up and feeding the patient if necessary.
• Assists in the meal preparation for individuals with special dietary problems under the direction of a professional staff member.
• Understands adequate nutrition and fluid intake.
• Demonstrates effective observation and reporting skills.
• Maintains high level of confidentiality in compliance with HIPPA law and policy.
• Demonstrates appropriate hand hygiene; waste disposal; use of Personal Protective Equipment; Bag (supply/tote) technique; and knowledge of Standard Precautions, inclusive of basic infection control procedures.
• Appropriately explains duties and functions of the Interdisciplinary Team including the role of the Home Health Aide.
• Documents to agency standards.
• Displays the ability to establish priorities and organize work and time appropriately.
• Anticipates problems and modifies plans and procedures to provide solutions.
• Elicited no founded patient/family complaints, staff complaints or unusual occurrences (i.e. reportable incidents).
• Demonstrates ability to communicate with patients and families in a supportive manner that is understandable and culturally appropriate.
• Maintains a clean, safe environment; provides assistance with safe transfer techniques, positioning and ambulation.
• Demonstrates normal range of motion.
• Assists the patient with medication reminders.
• Able to read and record temperature, pulse and respiration.
• Recognizes emergencies and is knowledgeable in applying emergency procedures.
• Is respectful of the patient, his or her privacy and his or her property.
• Assists with appropriate hygiene and grooming inclusive of bathing, hair shampoo, nail & skin care; oral hygiene; toileting/assistance with elimination; taking vital signs, and weights.
• Assists with activities of daily living.
• Feeding the patient if necessary.
• Identifies and reports patient clinical changes and/or body function changes appropriately to RN Case Manager.
• Adheres to requirements of policies and procedures that are both patient focused (clinical) and organizational focused (administrative).
• Maintains the security of patient records.
• Demonstrates understanding of basic knowledge of nursing home and ALF/DD care issues and the ability to carry out assignments.

Work Type

• full-time
• day shift
• no weekends

Education Level

• Completion of a NY State approved Home Health Aide and Certified Nurse Aide training program with a HHA and CNA certificate.

Salary/Compensations

• $1.50/hour added to your base pay rate

About the Company

• A Home Health Aide (HHA) assists in providing quality patient care by performing assigned duties, health care tasks, and specified patient care activities according to the policies and procedures of Hospice Buffalo, Inc. and under the supervision of a licensed practical nurse and/or registered nurse.
• Assists in establishing and maintaining good interpersonal relationships with hospice patients, families, health care personnel, and the entire hospice staff and volunteers.