Private Duty Home Health Aide

WHO ARE WE?

Come join our dedicated team at South Port Square, a wonderful place to work! South Port Square is a 40-acre campus in Port Charlotte close to Charlotte Harbor and Punta Gorda and is one of Florida’s best kept secrets! You’ll join a team with a strong work ethic, with management and co-workers who want to make a positive impact on our residents’ lives. These extraordinary leaders and role models will help you craft a long, satisfying, and fruitful senior living career at South Port Square. For over 30 years, South Port Square has been addressing the growing needs of the retiring and senior communities. Today, South Port Square is one of twelve retirement communities in Florida managed by Life Care Services (LCS), the nation’s leading developer and manager of senior living communities. We continually strive to create an environment of trust and transparency by helping employees find a sense of purpose in their job and achieve their highest potential while providing hospitality to those who work and live at South Port Square. 

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Our Home Health Aides work under the supervisor of the care coordinator and performs various personal care and support services as necessary to meet the resident’s needs. The Aide is responsible for observing clients, reporting and recording these observations and documenting the services provided and the assignments will promote quality, continuity and safety of services. Our Home Health Aides will not function in any manner viewed as the practice of nursing according to the Florida’s Nurse Practice Act. Specifically, the Home Health Aides will not administer medications, take physician's orders or perform procedures requiring the training, knowledge and skill of a nurse, specifically sterile techniques. The Aide provides non-skilled, non-medical functions only.

Here are a few of the daily responsibilities of a Private Duty HHA:

• Providing personal care including: baths, back rubs, oral hygiene shampoos.
• Dressing and undressing clients
• Skin care and prevention of skin breakdown
• Toileting activities
• Keeping the client’s living area clean and orderly
• Planning and preparing nutritious meals.
• Assisting in feeding the client, if necessary.
• Taking and recording oral, rectal and auxiliary temperatures, pulse, respiration and blood pressure when ordered (within the training limitations of the paraprofessional).
• Assisting in ambulation and exercise according to the service delivery plan.
• Performing range of motion and other simple procedures as ordered (within the training limitations of the paraprofessional).
• Assisting the client in the self-administration of medication.
• Doing the client’s laundry, as appropriate.
• Meeting the safety needs of clients and using equipment safely and properly (foot stools, side rails, restraints, etc.)
• Reporting the client’s condition and significant changes to the assigned care coordinator or supervisor.
• Adhering to documentation and care procedures and standards of personal and professional conduct

Here are a few of the qualifications we need you to have:

• Is a certified nurse aide, certified home health aide, basic personal services aide or has demonstrated competency as defined in agency policies.
• Is at least 18 years of age.
• Has ability to read, follow written instructions, and document services provided.
• Is self-directed with the ability to work with little direct supervision.
• Has empathy for the needs of the ill, injured, frail and impaired.
• Possesses and maintains current CPR certification.

What We Offer:

• Work today, get paid tomorrow with DailyPay! South Port Square now offers DailyPay - a program that allows employees to access their earned income on demand, as it's earned.
• Benefits for full and part-time staff, including health, dental, vision, 401K and more!
• Fun, caring, inclusive work environment!

Many roles in the community may require that we ask about your vaccination status. This could include MMR, chicken pox, hepatitis, flu, and COVID-19 vaccine status. 

Per-Diem/PRN

Salary: $15.00 per hour

If you're an enthusiastic, compassionate, senior care professional who is passionate about hospitality and senior engagement- please apply, we'd love to get to know you!

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