Home Health Aide
VitaCare Living Ladysmith I & Ladysmith II • Ladysmith, WI, US
Posted 2 years ago
Description
Our busy home health agency is rapidly growing and we’re seeking an experienced home health aide to assist us in providing superior in-home health care to our clients. Our ideal candidate will have excellent organization and communication skills, and 1-3 years of experience working as an HHA or caregiver. You’ll assist our patients with companionship, basic medical care, light housekeeping duties, personal care, and hygiene tasks so that they are empowered to live happily at home. If you are looking for a job that relies on your compassion and empathy skills to help people lead more independent lives, look no further, and apply today!
Responsibilities
- Administer Medications: Dispense medications as directed by the Registered Nurse (RN), maintaining an annual error rate of no more than one mistake.
- Resident Response: Attend to resident call lights within 10 minutes to ensure responsive and attentive care.
- Light Housekeeping: Perform regular light housekeeping in resident rooms at least once weekly to promote a clean and comfortable living space.
- Service Charting: Accurately document all services provided without missing tasks, ensuring compliance with company standards.
- Assistance with ADLs: Support residents in Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) according to each individual’s Client Service Plan, with a zero-tolerance policy for missed tasks.
- Mitigate issues with medications by helping to open bottles, organizing self-administered dosing, and arranging for refills, and help the patient with meal preparation and planning
- Sustain quality companionship and provide psychological and emotional support for patients and their family members
- Travel with patients to health care service providers, doctors’ offices, grocery stores, or for other errands, as needed
- Implement care plans as directed by the case manager, and keep updated and accurate care records
- Facilitate personal care tasks like scheduling appointments, calling doctors’ offices, coordinating Medicare and other insurance details
Qualifications
- Extreme Ownership: Demonstrates accountability, ownership of outcomes, and proactively removes obstacles.
- Resourcefulness: Finds effective solutions even with limited resources and independently seeks knowledge.
- Passion for Purpose (Big Why): Possesses a strong, genuine dedication to serving and caring for vulnerable adults.
- Commitment to Growth: Actively pursues self-improvement and team betterment each day.
- Humility: Embraces a solutions-focused attitude, welcomes feedback, and puts egos aside for the best outcome.
- Reliability: Shows up on time, prepared, and ready to deliver dependable support.
- Gratitude: Maintains a positive outlook, seeking and appreciating the good in all situations.
- Pass a full employment background check, drug test, and physical, and possess current CPR certification and first aid training
- A valid state driver’s license, reliable transportation, and current auto insurance is required
- Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) or Certified Home Health Aide (CHHA) is highly valuable- approved home health aide training programs from community colleges are accepted
- Must have 1-3 years of experience as a personal caregiver, HHA/ home health aide, nursing assistant, or personal care aid for a home health agency at patient homes or care facilities setting
- Ability to lift up to 100 lbs, you may be required to stoop, bend, reach, and transfer patients up to 250 lbs as needed
Compensation
$17 - $22/hour
About VitaCare Living Ladysmith I & Ladysmith II
At VitaCare Living, we believe in living with a purpose outside of ourselves. VitaCare Living is a collection of communities full of people with purpose. Our residents wake up each day with another opportunity to grow and improve the world around them. Our staff works each day with people they care deeply for and have careers full of opportunity.
VitaCare Living is an established Assisted Living and Memory Care provider with a mission to add LIFE to the Years of our Residents and Staff. With 17 locations across two states, we care for over 300 residents in smaller, home-like settings that prioritize community, dignity, and purpose.
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