What are the responsibilities and job description for the Home Health Homemaker position at Philip Health Services?
Title: Home Health Aide
Department: Home Health
Reports To: Director of Ambulatory Services
Main Function:
Performs routine homemaking tasks to enable clients to remain in their homes. All tasks assigned to home health aides must fall within the parameters as outlines by South Dakota Department of Social Services Case Service Plan.
Responsibility: Patient Care
Responsibilty Statment: Consult and coordinate with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, or evaluate patient care plans.
Specific Performance Standards:
- Personal care, such as bath, shower, hair care, dressing and other personal tasks. Assistance in ambulation, feeding.
- Assist with medical routine as instructed on Case Service Plan.
- Cleaning house, such as dusting, vacuuming, scrubbing floors, cleaning stove and refrigerator, etc.
- Assistance in preparing meals.
- Home management duties, as designated by Home Health Director.
- Normal Range of Motion within the parameters as outlined by ASA Procedures Manual.
Responsibility: Record Keeping
Responsibility Statement: Contributes to the ongoing assessment of assigned patients utilizing recommended guidelines.
Specific Performance Standards:
- Record patients' medical information and vital signs
- Monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patient's conditions.
- Respects the rights, property and privacy of others; protects confidentiality and uses discretion when discussing information.
- Utilizes critical thinking in implementing the coordination of medical and nursing interventions.
- Exhibits awareness of needs for diverse customer population.
- Contributes to the individualized problem list/plan of care as evidenced by documentation.
Responsibility: Safety and Infection Control
Responsibility Statement:
Specific Performance Standards:
- Understand and demonstrate proper use of personal protective equipment.
- Promotes safe/clean environment
Responsibility: Communication
Responsibility Statement: Demonstrates the ability to utilize effective communication with patients, customers and members of the health care team.
Specific Performance Standards:
- Effectively communicates with patients, customers and members of the health care team, as evidenced by documentation, observation and feedback.
- Communicates and delegates pertinent patient information in a clear, concise manner.
- Attends team and committee meetings as assigned.
Responsibility: Professional Behavior and Growth
Responsibility Statement: Acts in a professional manner positively represents Philip Health Services, Inc., and pursues opportunities for personal growth.
Specific Performance Standards:
- Respects the rights and property and privacy of others. Maintains confidentiality of system and hospital business and affairs and its patient's, employee's, and medical staff's records and information at all times.
- Presents a positive image through professional mannerisms, dress, conduct and attitude.
- Maintains current clinical knowledge in order to ensure that educational information provided to staff is current.
- Manages multiple projects, adjusting priorities as necessary to focus on high-risk, quality or safety issues
Qualifications/Education:
- Physical Therapy pre-employment screening is required.
- Must be able to communicate effectively with providers and all levels of Philip Health Services, Inc. staff.
Experience:
- Must have complete familiarity with duties of a home health homemaker.
- Hight school graduate or equivalent
- Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) certification preferred, not required
