The great history of Home Health Foundation is now the future of Tufts Medicine Care at Home.
Why Join Us? - Be a part of a great organization, lots of opportunity for growth.
Tufts Medicine Care at Home is a proud member of Tufts Medicine, a health system that is rethinking how academic and community centers, local and national businesses, and technology and service innovators can all work together.
So that clinicians can deliver expert care where it’s needed most and so that we can bring wellness back to health care, one person at a time.
Job Overview
The position is a trained paraprofessional who provides personal care and other incidental care to patients as instructed by and under the supervision of the professional clinician .
Position provide care to patients in a variety of community settings, including to patients under home health and hospice plans of care, residing in private homes, assisted livings, skilled nursing facilities and hospice inpatient facilities.
Facility Location : Lowell, MA
Territory : MA & NH
Hours : Per Diem
Minimum Qualifications
1. High school diploma or equivalent.
2. Certified Home Health Aide
3. Licensed Nursing Aide
4. Valid Drivers License
Duties and Responsibilities
The duties and responsibilities listed below are intended to describe the general nature of work and are not intended to be an all-inclusive list .
Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned.
Essential Functions
1 . Provides care to patients as instructed in the home health aide or hospice aide care plan . Provides the level of assistance designated in the plan of care, ranging from supervision and cueing to total care.
2. Notifies the supervising clinician and or aide supervisor promptly when the patient refuses care or the patient’s care needs change.
3. Provides patient care including bathing, dressing, grooming, ambulation / mobility, toileting and nutrition / hydration.
4. Provides bowel and bladder training, catheter care, ostomy care, and adaptive equipment (e.g., raised toilet seat) as designated in aide care plan.
5. Identifies risks to personal safety ( e.g. firearms in the home, oxygen safety) and promptly reports concern to aide supervisor.
6. Identifies changes in mobility, weakness, sleepiness, and fatigue and reports these changes to the supervising professional clinician.
7. Identifies physical, mental and functional changes and reports these changes to the supervising professional clinician.
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