What are the responsibilities and job description for the PACE SUPPORTIVE HOUSING Aide position at UPHAMS CORNER HEALTH CENTER?
Job Details
Job Location
125 Amory St - Jamaica Plain, MA
Description
Engage participant and assist with personal care needs to participants across PACE Program care settings including restorative therapies, activities and meals service. This position works in the PACE Center.
Duties & Responsibilities :
The expectation is for PACE Center Aides to demonstrate competency performing the assigned tasks.
- Maintains collaborative, respectful, engaging and safe environment for enrollees, visitors and staff.
- Demonstrates the ability to engage with participants, to anticipate their needs and encourage independence
- Assists participants with personal care. Responsibilities and duties may include but are not limited to ostomy care, skin care, incontinent care, simple dressings and wound care, vital signs, blood glucose tests and weights
- Carries out treatment plans under the direction and supervision of the clinical interdisciplinary clinical team to include behavioral, clinical and rehabilitation interventions such as functional transfers, positioning and mobility, nutrition plans, restorative therapies and recreation and engagement plans.
- Assists with implementation of the care plan determined by the clinical team under the direction and supervision of the PACE Center Manager
- Maintains confidentiality of enrollee records and reports and of all oral reports.
- Participates in working groups including Quality projects and maintenance of policy and procedure as assigned by the Center Manager
- Collaborates with the Center Manager in ways and means to establish better accountability of services to enrollees and referral sources
- Attends and participates in required trainings, staff meetings and enrollee care meetings.
- Able to respond effectively to changes in workload in order to fulfill episodic and emergent needs including escorting participant's to appointments and assisting as needed with home-based midday service based on clinical needs
- Perform custodial and operational tasks including infection control practices, food and supply storage management and routine equipment maintenance.
- Able to complete basic administrative tasks as directed by supervisor including accessing the electronic health record to access and input relevant information.
- Adheres to PACE policies and procedures
- Needs varies across the 3 sites
- Appointment escort
- 636 weekly Clinic coverage
Qualifications
Qualifications :
Experience :
One or more years experience working with the elderly in a health care setting
Independent Action : As above
Supervisory Responsibility :
None
Define Access Level to PHI :
Level 3 : Authorized to access only certain limited categories of PHI and certain limited sections of the UCHC patient's medical record that are necessary to perform job duties. Staff in this category level should confine the use of PHI to the minimum necessary required and should not access or read parts of the medical record not needed to perform assigned duties.
