What are the responsibilities and job description for the Hospice Aide position at Guaranteed Health?
Guaranteed is a care company that makes tough moments easier. By blending at-home treatment with cutting-edge technology, we’re here to deliver care how you want it. Guaranteed is backed by some of the best investors in the game (including: BrandProject, Precursor, Springbank Collective, Lakehouse and Cake Ventures) and have raised $6.5 million in seed funding - one of the largest seed rounds for a Black female solo founder.
Our goal is to provide tech-enabled hospice services in a hybrid setting: best in class in-person and telemedicine care. Our care providers are highly-trained healthcare professionals focused on support, comfort, and dignity. We are obsessed with providing for patients and families and want to change the cultural conversation around death.
Who You Are
You are obsessed with patient-experience and delivering excellence in care, support, and comfort through technology.
You are driven, in work and in life, by your compassion for people.
You believe the US Healthcare system is deeply problematic and inequitable, and you want to help architect a solution.
You are always learning new things from your friends, you colleagues, your communities, and the world.
You thrive when building alongside diverse teams, opinions, and cross-discipline roles.
You are more than comfortable in a 0 to 1 startup. You manage yourself as well as anyone else and you love iterating quickly.
Who We Are
We are equally obsessed with patient-experience, and also caregiver-experience, family-experience, and care provider-experience. We strive to support everyone affected by death.
We are compassionate by nature.
We dream of healthcare systems that are more equitable and more human - and we work everyday to make them that way.
Medicine often ignores end of life care - we don’t. We talk about death. We talk about dying, about grief, about losing our patients and losing our loved ones.
We love teaching what we know and bringing humility to what don’t.
Job Type: Full time
Summary
We’re seeking an experienced, empathic CNA to fulfill Hospice Aides duties in our growing Care Teams across the Los Angeles Region. The hospice aide will work under the supervision of a registered nurse and performs various services for a patient as necessary to meet the patient's personal needs and to promote comfort.
Hospice Aides at Guaranteed are responsible for providing exceptional care under the direction of a registered nurse. Hospice Aides at Guaranteed are a high-touch and central role that enables us to deliver our promise of excellence in end-of-life care. This role is critical to ensuring that our culture and purpose touches our patients and their friends and families.
Job Responsibilities
Provide palliative care to bed-ridden patients at a private residence
Provide quality life care to patients and deliver medical supplies
Assist in activities of daily living and performing homemaking and other environmental services as assigned
Provide care per written instruction and maintain the record of patient care
Assist patient with prescribed exercise as instructed per nurse or therapists
Report any problems and changes in patient condition to the nurse
Foster cooperative effort among personnel by understanding the functions of other persons involved in patient care and by active participation in team and staff conferences.
Provide respite for the patient family when on-site as appropriate
Skills and Toolset You’ll Need to Bring
Compassionate warm and accepting attitude towards people
They need to possess certain skills like personal care expertise, bedside manners, stamina, cope up with distressing situations, emotional stability, and record keeping
Quick learner, attention to detail, prioritization skill and time management
Punctual, reliable and must have strong communication skill
Hearing, eyesight and physical dexterity must be sufficient to perform a physical assessment of the patient's condition and to perform patient care
Physical activities will include, walking, sitting, stooping, and standing and minimal to maximum lifting of patients and the turning of patients.
Nice to Have
High school diploma or equivalent
Minimum of 3 year of experience in a similar field
Relevant Experience
Meets training requirements for the State in which you reside
Completed a minimum of 75 hours of classroom and supervised practical training with at least 16 hours devoted to supervised practical training and with at least 16 hours of classroom instruction completed
One year experience as a CNA, hospice aide or home health aide
Must be a licensed driver with an insured automobile in good working order
Require to see hear and speak and use one or both hands
Current CPR certification
Utilization of calculator, telephone, copy machine, thermometer, blood pressure cuff, other basic office and medical equipment.
Sensitivity in handling patient medical records
Guaranteed is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. We recruit, train, and compensate our team members based on their qualifications. We want to hear from you regardless of your race, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, veteran status, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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