Job description
Concordia Visiting Nurses is seeking full-time or part-time Home Health Aides for flexible shifts to care for our patients in the Wexford/Gibsonia areas. Work close to your home!!
Typical hours for Home Health Aides are Monday-Friday from 8am-5pm but we are open to other possibilities. Let us know what type of schedule you are seeking. No weekends or holidays! Excellent compensation and extensive benefits package.
The home health aide is a paraprofessional staff member trained to provide personal care, activities of daily living, exercise programs, and related services in the home for the sick and disabled, when no family member can assume this responsibility. This employee functions under the direction, instruction and supervision of the registered nurse and/or therapist.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Completion of a formal home health aide/nursing assistant program is preferred.
- Successfully completes Agency Competency Evaluation
- One year of supervised employment as an home health aide or nursing assistant
- Scores at or above the 75% score on the nursing assistant evaluation/pre-employment test
- Ability to understand and carry out directions and instructions and keep appropriate records
- Hold current HSFA card
- Reliable, independent means of transportation to make home visits
- Car must be covered by established amount of insurance as described in personnel policies
- Driver must have valid driver’s license
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Skills
- Provide personal care including:
- Bathing
- Dressing
- Grooming
- Hair Care
- Nail Care
- Assistance with ambulation
- Changing position in bed
- Assistance with transfers
- Oral hygiene
- Changing bed linens of an incontinent beneficiary
- Shaving
- Deodorant application
- Skin care with lotions and/or powder
- Foot care
- Ear care
- Feeding
- Assistance with elimination [enemas, routine catheter care, routine colostomy care
- Simple dressing changes that do not require the skills of a nurse
- Assistance with medications that are ordinarily self-administered and do not require the skills of a licensed nurse to be provided safely and effectively
- Assistance with medications may include:
- Handing the bottle to the patient
- Opening the bottle
- Handing the patient water or other liquid to take the medication
- Reminding the patient to take a prescribed medication
- Assistance with activities that are directly supportive of skilled therapy services but do not require the skills of a therapist to be safely and effectively performed. Examples of such activities include:
- Routine maintenance exercises
- Repetitive speech routines to support speech-language pathology services
- Routine care of prosthetic and orthotic devices
- Performs all duties as assigned.
Respect, Dignity, Compassion. Our Mission, Your Future. EOE
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- 403(b)
- 403(b) matching
- Dental insurance
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Free parking
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Loan forgiveness
- Loan repayment program
- Opportunities for advancement
- Paid sick time
- Paid time off
- Paid training
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Medical specialties:
- Home Health
Standard shift:
- Day shift
Weekly schedule:
- Monday to Friday
License/Certification:
- Driver's License (Required)
Work Location: On the road
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