What are the responsibilities and job description for the Home Care Aide/Caregiver position at VNA Community Services, Inc.?
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PRIMARY FUNCTION: The Home Care Aide is a paraprofessional who under a client's specific Plan of Care provides personal care and homemaker support services on an intermittent long-term care basis for the sick, frail, and/or disabled individual to support a safe and healthy home environment. The HCA III works for the VNA under the professional supervision of a Registered Nurse. The duties of the HCA III are planned, assigned, and supervised by the professional nurse to meet the client/patient and family situation. The HCA III is qualified to provide care to patients participating in the Medicare Home Health or Medicare Hospice benefit.
Qualifications:
- License or certification and and/or pass a competency test is designated by the agency
- Maintenance of 12 hours of approved in-service attendance annually.
- High School diploma
- Ability to bend, lift 50 pounds
SPECIAL SKILLS
- Friendly, tactful personality, with a sincere interest in caring for elderly or disabled individuals; maturity and capacity to work well under stress.
- Sound judgment when dealing with elderly or disabled individuals who have physical, mental, or emotional challenges and the ability to provide necessary supportive services to bed-ridden individuals.
Duties of a Home Care Aide
The duties of a home health aide don’t require medical training. They do, however, require state-approved health training, such as in how to take vital signs, provide basic care, infection control, and emergency procedures; that’s how a home health aide (HHA) differs from a personal care aide (PCA).
- A home health aide’s duties may include:
- Helping with personal activities, such as bathing, dressing, and grooming
- Light housekeeping, such as doing laundry, washing dishes, and changing the bed linens
- Shopping for groceries
- Planning, preparing, or serving meals
- Providing transportation to doctor’s appointments
- Helping with using the toilet
- Monitoring and documenting a client’s condition, including checking vital signs or recording how much they ate
- Giving medication reminders
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: $13.50 - $15.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Flexible schedule
Schedule:
- 4 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Holidays
- Night shift
- Overtime
- Weekends as needed
Supplemental pay types:
- Signing bonus
COVID-19 considerations:
All employees are required to have vaccination.
Application Question(s):
- Do you have a DL and Vehicle?
Willingness to travel:
- 75% (Required)
Work Location: In person