Home Health Aide

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Exemption Status:

Non-Exempt Hiring Range:$17.00 - $25.00(based on a full time schedule of 40 hours per week).Please note that the final offer will vary based on scheduled hours. Compensation for part-time or reduced schedules will be prorated based on scheduled weekly hours, experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

Schedule Details:

Monday through Friday, Weekends (Saturday and Sunday)
Scheduled

Hours:

8-4:30

Shift: 1 - Day Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America)

Hours:

40

Cost Center:24100 - 4332 Hospice HHAUnion:

SEIU - Health Alliance Home Health & Hospice This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

Everyone Is a Caregiver At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other.

And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

This position provides routine, personal care such as bathing, dressing, or grooming, to convalescent, terminally ill, or disabled persons in their home setting.

I. Major Responsibilities:
1. Provides direct and indirect personal care in a safe and timely manner in accordance with departmental policies and procedures.
2. Performs homemaking and other environmental services in a way that facilitates sanitary and safe care in the patient’s home according to policies and procedures.
3. Duties may include:a. Providing patients with mobility assistance, bathing, dressing, and grooming.b. Providing patients and families with emotional support and instruction in areas such as caring for patient or self, preparing healthy meals, living independently, or adapting to disability or illness.c. Changing bed linens, washing patients' laundry, cleaning patients' living area and other homemaking tasks identified within the home health plan of care.d. Preparing or serving meals to patients according to the home health plan of care.e. Directing patients in simple prescribed exercises or in the use of braces or artificial limbs.f. Checking patients' pulse, temperature, and respiration.g. Changing clean dressings.h. Performing a variety of duties as outlined in the home health plan of care.
4. Maintains records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discusses observations with supervisor or professional according to policy.
5. Observes, documents, and reports changes in client status or expectations of services promptly to a supervisor or professional according to policy.
6. Recognizes emergency situations and implements interventions according to appropriate departmental procedures and policies.
7. Renders services in accordance with the written plan of care as documented by the appropriate professional.

Standard Staffing Level Responsibilities:
1. Complies with established departmental policies, procedures and objectives.
2. Attends variety of meetings, conferences, seminars as required or directed.
3. Demonstrates use of Quality Improvement in daily operations.
4. Complies with all health and safety regulations and requirements.
5. Respects diverse views and approaches, demonstrates Standards of Respect, and contributes to creating and maintaining an environment of professionalism, tolerance, civility and acceptance toward all employees, patients and…