Home Health Aide - Doylestown
Listed on 2026-10-04
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Healthcare
Healthcare Nursing, Home Health Aide, Patient Care Technician, Home Care
Location: Abington
Description
Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.
Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work?
Do you have a heart for helping others and want a career that truly makes a difference every day? At Penn Medicine at Home, our Home Health Aides don’t work within four walls—they bring compassionate, personalized care directly to patients where they’re most comfortable: home.MUST HAVE CNA CERT*
What You’ll DoAs a Home Health Aide, you’ll be a vital part of our care team by:
- Bringing each patient’s Plan of Care to life
- Assisting patients and families with personal care and activities of daily living
- Providing home health or hospice visits throughout a designated service area
- Completing timely and accurate documentation to support excellent patient care
- Make a real impact by playing an essential role in patients’ healing journeys
- Enjoy flexibility and independence with autonomy in your role and a healthy work-life balance
- Grow your career with tuition reimbursement to advance within Penn Medicine
- Access great benefits
- Receive paid mileage on top of your hourly rate
Currently enrolled in a BSN nursing program? In place of Home Health Aide certification, we welcome nursing students who are matriculated in an accredited BSN program and have completed their Nursing Foundations/Fundamentals clinical course. A minimum 3.0 GPA overall and in the nursing major is required and must be maintained throughout employment.
The Perks of the Open RoadNo hospital hallways here. If you enjoy variety, independence, and meaningful one‑on‑one care, this role delivers all that—and more.
Come be part of a team where compassion meets opportunity.
Come home to a career with Penn Medicine at Home.
Responsibilities- Patient Care – Directly performs or assists with bathing, oral hygiene, skin and hair care of the patient. Prepares light meals for patients and assists with eating. Assists with the clothing of patient. Assists the patient with use of a bedpan, commode, and urinal. Empty Foley catheter drainage bag and records amount on weekly Home Health Aide weekly report when applicable.
- Exercise and Transfers
- Provides assistance with home exercise programs to an assigned group of patients. Assists with patient’s ambulatory and with bed to chair transfer. Turns patients in bed to positions of comfort. - Patient Environment
- Performs household and other environmental services tasks specified in the Home Health Aide Plan that are essential to entity. Assists with pre‑poured medications, which are ordinarily self‑administered. Provides respite care to relieve primary caregiver as assigned. - Documentation
- Accurately documents care provided to patients on a timely basis according to Medicare/JCAHO standards. Completes allotment of hours as ordered by department and communicates changes in schedule. Documents and verifies with signature all Home Health Aide Activity Sheets and obtain caregiver or authorized facility signature. Oversees the timely submission of the ‘Rap Check Report’ to support government reimbursement. - Communication
- Communicates any unusual findings and/or occurrences, obvious changes in patient’s physical, mental or social status, home safety hazards, refusal of care, or…
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