Home Health Aide

Home Health Aide

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

Education / Skills / Abilities / Availability

Working Environment

Primarily works a certain number of hours or shifts in clients' place of residence, travel required. Shift times and days vary with client needs.

Compensation : 11.50 to 14.00

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Right at Home's mission is simple...to improve the quality of life for those we serve. We accomplish this by providing the Right Care, and we deliver this brand promise each and every day around the world. However, we couldn't do it without having the Right People. Our care teams are passionate about serving our clients and are committed to providing the personal care and attention of a friend, whenever and wherever it is needed.

That's where you come in. At Right at Home, we help ordinary people who have a passion to serve others become extraordinary care team members. We seek to find people who are compassionate, empathetic, reliable, determined and are focused on improving the quality of life for others.

To our care team members, we commit to deliver the following experiences when you partner with Right at Home :