Future Opening: Home Health Aide

**JOB SUMMARY** The **Home Health Aide** provides various personal care and related paraprofessional services in accordance with an established plan of care. Provides for the personal needs and comfort of clients in their homes. **ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS** - Adhere to Morgantown Area Private Duty, LLC Right at Home policies and procedures. - Perform work under the supervision of a nurse supervisor. - Perform personal care activities contained in a written assignment by the nurse supervisor which includes but is not limited to, assisting the client with activities of daily living, such as: - Personal hygiene (assisting to bathroom or in using bedpan, bathing, care of mouth, skin and hair) - Ambulation - Eating - Dressing - Shaving - Meal Preparation - Perform other assigned activities that are taught by a Registered Nurse for a specific client. These include but not limited to: - Assisting with the change of ostomy appliances - Reinforcement of dressings (non-sterile) - Assisting with the use of devices for aid to daily living (cane, walker, wheelchair or lift device) - Assisting with prescribed range of motion exercises - Assisting with self-administered simple urine tests for sugar acetone or albumin (Home Health Aide may not interpret results) - Measuring and preparing special diets - Measuring intake and output - Taking vital signs (temperature, pulse, respirations and blood pressure) - Application of an external (condom-type) catheter - Assist with application of arm sling, arm splint or leg splint - The Home Health Aide Assistant will **NOT** perform any of the following: - Sterile dressing change - Irrigation of body cavities such as enemas, colostomy or wound - Gastric lavage or gavage - Catheterization - Administration of oral medications, eye drops or medicated skin ointments - Administration parenteral or IV medications - Application of heat by any method - Naso-gastric or gastrostomy tube feedings or care - Tracheostomy tube care - Suctioning of the nose, mouth or tracheostomy - Nail care on a client with diabetes or compromised circulation - Any personal health service that has not been included on the paraprofessional task sheet - The Home Health Aide / Certified Nursing Assistant may perform light housekeeping tasks which will facilitate the client’s self-care at home. These tasks include, but are not limited to: vacuuming, dusting, sweeping/mopping floors, dishes, laundry, cleaning bathrooms. - The Home Health Aide responsible for documentation of service provided, using the Client Care Record. - The Home Health Aide should not contact the physician directly, but rather refer all questions or reports of client’s condition changes immediately to the nurse supervisor staff. - Home Health Aides will receive at least twelve hours of in-service training per year as documented in the In-Service Log which is monitored by the Nursing Supervisors. The in-service training may be performed while the Home Health Aide / Certified Nursing Assistant is providing care to clients. **NON-ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS** - Other duties assigned by Supervisor **EDUCATION / SKILLS / ABILITIES / AVAILABILITY** - High school graduate of G.E.D. certificate preferred. - A minimum of three (3) months full time Personal Care Assistant or relative experience in health care (in homes or facilities) and successful completion of a state approved Certified Nurse Aide or Home Health Aide course. - The Certified Nursing Assistant shall have successfully completed a Competency Evaluation that meets the State licensing law for home health agencies. - Must have a sympathetic attitude toward the care of the elderly, and ability to deal effectively with the demands of the job. - Current CPR Certificate. - Meet the requirements for employees providing direct client care. - Read, write, speak and understand English as needed for the job. - Have valid driver’s license and use of an insured automobile for work or access to adequate transportation. **WORKING ENVIRONMEN…