Home Care Aide

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides quality and safe delivery of services to patients in their homes as assigned and supervised by professional nursing staff according to the developed plan of care for each patient.
• Assists/provides patients with personal hygiene, dressing, bathing, and other daily living tasks, homemaking services, nutrition through meal preparation, teaching and emotional support.
• Assists/provides environmental maintenance and management which are essential to the patient’s health care at home.
• Performs basic health care services for patients, including checking vital signs or administering prescription medication.
• Assists patients to access specific preventive services as directed by the professional nurse
• Informs individuals of services available and their benefits.
• Making transportation arrangements as needed.
• Works with a nurse, personal care aide, CNA, nurse aid, nursing assistant, and other caregivers and in-home care professionals.
• Attends and participates in coordination of care meetings.
• Reports any patient changes, concerns and incidents promptly.
• Completes documentation, visit forms, and time studies within time limits specified.
• Keeping up with in-service training.
• Practices and behaves in a professional, safe and ethical manner at all times.
• Serves as a patient advocate.
• Maintains friendly and courteous interpersonal communication skills and a positive service attitude.
• Participates in performance improvement and educational activities.
• Works willingly and accepts assignments as given.
• Attends all mandatory meetings and programs.
• Participates in opportunities that enhance personal and professional growth.
• Performs other duties as necessary or assigned.
• Complies with the Corporate Compliance Policy and all laws, regulations, and Standards of Conduct relating to the position and agrees to report any suspected violations of law or Standards of Conduct.
• Complies with all applicable state and federal regulations and JCAHO standards.
• Maintains a safe work environment using safe work practices, utilizing standard precautions and complying with hazardous waste procedures at all times as described in St. Anthony's Safety Manual.
• Maintains the confidentiality of patient, resident, employee and organizational information.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

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.

Education and/or Experience

• High school diploma, GED, or similar certification required.
• Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) preferred.
• One to three months of related experience and/or training preferred.

Education and/or Experience
High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Position Requirements, Licenses, Certifications, Registrations

• BLS (Basic Life Support) certification through the American Heart Association required. New hires may obtain certification during onboarding with organizational support.
• Valid driver license.
• Completion of MVR prior to hire and annually with an Acceptable grading criteria.
• Proof of insurance upon hire and annually for personal vehicles used for company business (recommended minimum of $100,000 for property damage and $300,000 for bodily injury).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to build positive relationships with different types of people, including residents, patients, employees, and members of the health care team.
• Must possess effective time management skills.
• Must be able to enter and function in non-handicapped accessible patient homes.

Language Skills
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.  Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.  Ability to speak effectively before customers, patients, families and employees of the organization.

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 sit; talk and hear; reach with hands and arms; and use hands to finger, handle or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and climb or balance.  The employee must be able to lift and/or move up to 15 pounds at times, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Regularly works in an office setting with frequent interaction with employees, patients, residents, customers, and the public.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be exposed to a variety of weather conditions and temperatures during travel and patient/client home setting.

Due to the nature of business in a health care setting, although risk is minimal, any employee of St. Anthony may be exposed to moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, blood borne pathogens, unpleasant sights, odors, and/or materials in patient care and/or provider work areas.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. The essential duties are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work performed. The omission of specific duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position. This position will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other related duties as assigned. St. Anthony reserved the right to update, revise or change this job description and related duties at any time with or without notice.