Home Health Aide

HHA – Home Health Aide

• Excellent Benefits - Supportive Management

The W Group Assisted Living Facility is hiring Home Health Aides. We have our eye out for a compassionate and energetic candidate.

• Reliable Set Schedule - Weekends - Day - Night - Immediately Available

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assist with activities of daily living

• Light housekeeping/laundry

• Personal care assistance which includes bathing, personal hygiene

• Medication pass

• Provide companionship and basic emotional support

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must be a New York State Certified Home Health Aide (HHA) or Personal Care Aide (PCA)

• Recent Physical, including a drug screen, PPD, and Rubella and Rubeola Titers

• Ability to arrive timely with a self-driven and positive attitude

• Ability to interact with the Residents with respect and dignity

BENEFITS:

• Competitive Salary

• Health Benefits Offered

• Paid time off

• Paid Sick Time Off

• Paid Holidays Off

• Paid Training Provided

• Unlimited employee referral bonuses

• Growth and development paths specific to your interests

• Supportive management - open door policy

• Reliable schedule

WHY WORK AT THE W GROUP?

The W Group is proud to be the largest provider of senior living and adult care in the state of New York. The W Group is an amazing, values-based company culture ripe with collaboration, encouragement and camaraderie. We offer a track to growth based on what you put into the role and your passion for learning in the company. In your role you’ll have the ability to innovate and make an impact with your ideas in real-time.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Schedule:

• 8-hour shift

• Monday to Friday

• Weekend availability




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  HRIS Job Description:

  • Summary: A person who carries out health acre tasks under the supervision of a Registered nurse and who also provides with personal hygiene, housekeeping and other related supportive tasks to a patient with health care needs in his/her home.

    Job Duties:

    • Personal Care-assists with:

    • Bath (bed, bath, tub, shower)

    • Oral hygiene (mouth, denture care)

    • Care of hair (shampoo, dry and comb)

    • Care of nails

    • Skin care/lotion massage

    • Position change

    • Provide for elimination (bedpan, commode, toilet)

    • Assist with dressing

    • Take temperature and pulse.

    • Treatments-assist with:

    • Transfer and Ambulation

    • Test urine

    • Non-sterile dressings

    • Use of prosthesis

    • Active exercises

    • Use of special equipment

    • Takes vital signs as ordered

    • Intake and Output

    • Alcohol sponge

    • Assist self-medicating clients with medication

    • Homemaking- assist with:

    • Meal planning and preparation (prepare, serve, feed)

    • Assist with feeding

    • Linen change

    • Laundry

    • Light Housekeeping (making beds, dust and vacuum, tidy kitchen and bathroom, wash dishes after meals)

    • Grocery shopping, opening mail, banking and errands

    • The following functions are generally performed only after demonstration by the coordinating nurse:

    • Tub, bath or shower

    • Care of catheter drainage bag

    • Reinforce dressings and change simple, non-sterile dressings

    • Ace bandage/elastic stockings

    • Ice bag

    • Simple socks

    • Range of motion or prescribed exercises

    • Change or ostomy equipment

    • Use of rehabilitative devices such as walker, wheel-chair, crutches, cane

    • Special skin care

    • Application of binders and other supports

    • Oxygen equipment

    • Relearning of household skills

    • Measure intake and output

    • Prepare modified diets

    • Collect stool and urine specimens

    • Prepare formula

    • Breast care for nursing mother

    • Perform alcohol sponge baths

    • An aide is NOT allowed to perform these functions except as indicated in the Matrix entitled Permissible and Non-Permissible Activities: Home Heal Aide (HHA) services published by the New York State Department of Health on 08/19/92.

    • Enema

    • Colostomy or catheter irrigation

    • Gastric lavage or gavage

    • Administer medications

    • Change sterile dressings

    • Tube feedings

    • Give any medication-oral or injection

    • Apply any form of heat

    • Vaginal irrigation (douche)

    • Decubiti care

    • Make medical and/or nursing judgments

    • Any care not included in the nursing care plan

    • Documents care daily on all cases, reports to coordinating nurse any incidents or changes in condition of patient.

    • Participates in Performance Improvement Activities as indicated

    • Attends staff meetings and In-service presentations, as required.

    • Attends case conferences as indicated.

    • Communicates effectively with all those providing care.

    • Immediately notifies agency of any unforeseen circumstances or changes in the patient’s condition

    • Maintains patient safety and confidentiality

    • Observes and practices Standard Universal Precautions.

    
    

    Qualifications and experience requirements:

    Has successfully completed a basic home health aide training program approved by the New York State Department of Health and possesses written evidence of such completion, or

    Has successfully passed an equivalent exam approved by the New York State Department of Health and possesses written evidence of such completion.

    Three months of work experience as a Home Health Aide except trainees.

    Function Abilities

    • Must be able to read twelve point or large type.

    • Must be able to lift, stoop and bend effectively so as to be able to perform the above listed job functions

    • Must be able to hear adequately with no more than an amplifier on the phone and speak in a manner understood by most person.