Job Description

Job Title: Certified Home Health Aide
Reports To: Case Manager
FLSA Status: Non-exempt

• Summary: Cares for elderly, convalescent, or disabled persons in client's home by performing the following duties.
• Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
  
• Assists client to dress, bathe, and groom self.
  
• Prepares and serves food for client following special prescribed diets.
  
• Assists clients into and out of bed, automobile, or wheelchair, to lavatory, and up and down stairs.
  
• Reminds client to take prescribed medications as directed by physician or home care nurse.|
  
• Provides socialization for clients with activities such as reading aloud, playing cards, or other games.
  
• Maintains records of services performed and of apparent condition of client, and reports any changes in condition to Case Manager and family.
  
• Changes bed linens, maintains client's laundry, and performs light cleaning of client's quarters.
  
• Accompanies ambulatory clients outside home, serving as guide, companion, and aide.
  
• Assists client with prescribed exercises to increase range of motion.
  
• Massages client and applies preparations and treatments such as liniment or alcohol rubs and heat lamp stimulation.
  
• Performs variety of miscellaneous duties as needed such as obtaining household supplies and running errands.
  
  Qualifications : To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  
• Two years experience as a certified home health aide in a private home.
  
• Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's. Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.
  
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems which vary somewhat in the details but are not unusual to the home care setting
  
  Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
  Current Certification as a Home Health Aide or Nurse Aide
  
  Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  
  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to walk, sit, climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include distance vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus.