Home Healthcare Aide
VitaCare Living Mora • Mora, MN, US
Posted 2 years ago
Description
If you are an experienced home health aide who enjoys varied activities that help people lead more independent lives, we’d love to talk to you! We are seeking a kind and compassionate home health aide who has excellent communication and companionship skills to provide basic medical care, light housekeeping duties, personal care, and hygiene tasks so our patients are empowered to live happily at home. You must have 1-3 years of experience in home health implementing care plans, and make your patients’ health and safety your first priority. If this sounds like the perfect job for you, please 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.
- Administer basic medical tasks like taking vital signs, measuring glucose and ketone levels, replacing bandages and dressings, and ensuring the proper use of medical devices
- Reinforce accurate and up-to-date care records and work with the case manager to implement the patient care plan
- Transport patients as needed to doctor’s offices or other health care services, grocery shopping, or for other errands
- Take care of light housekeeping tasks including but not limited to vacuuming, bed making, laundry, etc.
- Help patients accomplish personal care tasks like scheduling appointments, calling doctors’ offices, and coordinating Medicare and other insurance details
Qualifications
Some skills expected-
- Ability to lift 35 pds
- Assist with resident ADLs as directed by Client service plan
- Administration of medication as directed by an RN
- Answer client call lights
- Housekeeping in residents' rooms as scheduled
- Charting of all services performed
Attributes:
- 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, welcoming feedback and putting 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.
- First aid training and current CPR certification is needed and you must be able to pass a drug test, full employment background check, and physical
- Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) or Certified Home Health Aide (CHHA) is highly valuable- approved home health aide training programs from community colleges are accepted
- A valid state driver’s license, reliable transportation, and current auto insurance is required
- Physical requirements include being able to lift up to 100 lbs, may be required to stoop, bend, reach, and transfer patients up to 250 lbs as needed
- 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
Compensation
$16 - $18/hour
About VitaCare Living Mora
About VitaCare Living - Mora
We believe in living with a purpose outside of ourselves. VitaCare Living - Mora is a community full of people with purpose. The residents wake up each day with the chance to improve the world around them. The staff works daily with people they care deeply for and have careers that foster growth, purpose, and fulfillment.
VitaCare Living - Mora is an established assisted living and memory care provider with a mission to add LIFE to the years of our residents and staff. We care for up to 11 residents in smaller, comfortable settings that prioritize community, dignity, and purpose.
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