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, supported by a comprehensive team.

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 patients.
• Assists with activities of daily living (ADLs): personal hygiene, grooming, mouth, skin, 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 patient laundry.
• Feeds and assists with meals.
• Obtains temperature, pulse, and respiration as supervised by the Hospice Nurse.
• Reports any changes in the patient’s condition to the Hospice Nurse (and facility nurse if applicable) and documents the information, including date, time, and recipient of 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.