Home Health Aide​/ PCA

Responsibilities

• Provide health care services in patients' residences
• Perform domestic and household tasks
• Transport and accompany patients to doctor’s office or hospital
• Administer simple prescribed medications
• Assist with clients' personal care activities
• Monitor patients' vital signs (temperature, respiration, etc.) and report condition
• Maintain patients' care records and document services
• Assist patients with mobility and physical therapy/exercises
• Instruct and counsel patients and families on diet and exercise
• Collect routine specimens
• Provide companionship and basic emotional or psychological support

• Certified Home Health Aide or willing to attend free training to become one
• Proven working experience as a home health aide
• Ability to monitor vital signs and collect specimens
• Familiarity with basic nutrition and personal hygiene standards
• Caring and compassionate personality
• Union positions with union benefits

• FREE medical insurance
• Benefit card
• Retirement 401(k) with company match
• Travel time paid between cases
• Paid in‑service training
• Premium pay for live‑in assignments
• Premium pay for mutual cases
• Premium holiday pay
• Weekly pay

Job types:
Full‑time, Part‑time

Schedule options: 10‑hour shift, 12‑hour shift, 8‑hour shift, Monday to Friday, weekend availability

License/Certification: HHA/PCA Certificate

Work location:

One location

We have assignments in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Staten Island & Bronx.

Assignments in all boroughs and languages including English, Spanish, Russian, Creole, Mandarin, Cantonese and more!

We are looking for Certified Home Health Aides or you can attend free training to become a Home Health Aide.

Community Home Care has served more than 10,000 patients since 1973, remaining at the forefront of elderly patient care through the hard work and dedication of our trusted aides and passionate leadership team. Our extensive industry expertise and caring personal touch allow us to deliver the highest quality home care services offered in the state of New York. Let Community Home Care quickly become an extension of your family as we take the time to get to know your loved one on a personal level, understanding their needs and wants so they can live a healthy and happy life under our care.

Whether patients need long‑term or short‑term care in the home, the skilled and personable aides at Community Home Care are trained to deliver the appropriate level of medical and personal assistance and attention patients need to live life to the fullest. Our proven matching process takes into consideration the backgrounds, locations, languages and cultures of both the patient and their aide to ensure a comfortable, easy transition to receiving care and allow a rich relationship to form between both as long‑term care is delivered.