Personal Care Aide; PCA​/Home Health Aide; HHA

Personal Care Aide (PCA)/Home Health Aide (HHA)

Join to apply for the Personal Care Aide (PCA)/Home Health Aide (HHA) - 18.65 Up to $25/hr role at Always Compassionate Health

• Maintain a healthy, safe environment, providing nutritional and environmental support.
• Assist with personal hygiene, toileting, dressing, walking, and feeding the client.
• Position the client when instructed to do so.
• Assist with certain treatments and therapy as ordered by the physician and approved by the nursing supervisor.
• Remind the client to take medications.
• Assist with payment of bills ONLY when authorized to do so and it is documented on the assignment sheet.
• Run errands when authorized to do so. Document on the Aide Charting Sheet daily.
• Report any important information or changes in the client’s condition to the agency and/or the nursing supervisor when necessary.
• Use medical supplies and equipment when appropriate.
• Provide emotional support and develop a trusting relationship between the aide and the client.
• Encourage client independence.

• Must be eighteen (18) years of age or older.
• Must have a certificate from a Home Health Aide training program consistent with State requirements with evidence of ongoing in‑service education to maintain the certificate.
• Must have the maturity necessary for establishing and maintaining a good work relationship with the client, the client’s family and agency personnel.
• Have a sincere interest in and a sympathetic attitude towards caring for the sick and disabled.

• Able to lift, turn and transfer clients; lift up to 50 pounds.
• Must be able to stoop and bend.
• Visual/hearing ability sufficient to comprehend written and verbal communication.
• Able to verbalize so that the average person can understand.
• Provide direct care according to the established client plan of care.
• Carry out a wide variety of tasks under the direction of the nursing supervisor.

• Regular exposure to client elements and occasional stress.

The hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future. $18.65–25.00/hr.