Certified Home Health Aid

About the role

Swan Hospice provides quality hospice care to patients in skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, and private homes. We treat residents, families, and loved ones with kindness, respect, compassion, and dignity. Our comprehensive team offers support and stability to residents and staff.

Responsibilities

• Assists with prescribed exercise and range-of-motion (ROM) activities as taught by the Hospice Nurse.
• Provides assistance in toileting, positioning, transfer activities, and frequent turning of bed-bound residents/patients.
• Assists with activities of daily living (ADLs), including personal hygiene, grooming, mouth care, skin care, and nail care.
• Assists or reminds the patient to take medication in compliance with regulatory and accrediting bodies.
• Performs light housekeeping of the patient’s personal unit or room, including changing bed linens and handling patient laundry if needed.
• Feeds and assists with meals.
• Obtains temperature, pulse, and respiration as supervised by the Hospice Nurse.
• Reports any changes in the resident’s/patient’s condition to the Hospice Nurse and, if in a facility, to the facility nurse. Documents the information, including the date, time, and person receiving the report.

Requirements

• HHA License in the state of New Jersey.
• Understands the hospice philosophy.
• Minimum of one year of experience working in hospice.
• Dependable transportation.