Home Health Aide

Description

Salary Range: $19.50-$25.65

• Assists the patient with personal care activities including bathing, oral hygiene, feeding and dressing..

• Assists the client with exercises, ambulation, and transfer activities. This includes knowledge in use of assistive devices such as canes, walkers, crutches, and lifts.

• Independently assists the patient with meal preparation/cooking and/or feeding.

• Must have working knowledge of special diets, diet restrictions, and techniques to maintain sanitary kitchen conditions to prevent food-borne illnesses.

• Assists the patient with medication prompts to remind the patient to self-administer his/her medications.

• Identifies changes in patient condition that require notification to the patient’s registered case manager.

• Takes vital signs to include temperature, pulse, heart rate, respiratory rate.

• Active NYS, Home Health Aide Certification. Drivers License.

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Mileage Reimbursement

• Self-Autonomy

• Generous PTO provided

• Healthcare, Dental, 401k, etc.

Location:

Poughkeepsie, NY

• Significant manual skills / motor coord & finger dexterity

• Significant occupational risk

• Significant exposure to dirt, odor, noise, human waste, etc.

EOE, including disability/vets.

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