Certified Home Health Aide (Essex County, NJ)

Job Summary

We are seeking a compassionate and dedicated Certified Home Health Aide (CHHA) to join our expanding hospice team and service patients in the Essex / Union County, NJ region. In this role, you will provide essential support and care to patients in their homes, enhancing their quality of life during hospice care.

Responsibilities

• Care for census of 5-6 patients
• Provides or assists in ADL activities; personal hygiene, grooming, mouth, skin care and nails
• Provides assistance in toileting, positioning and transfer activities, frequent turning and positioning of a bed bound resident/patient
• Assists with the prescribed exercise and ROM activities which the resident/patient and Hospice aide have been taught by the Hospice Nurse
• Assists with light housekeeping of individual's personal unit or room, including changing of bed linen and patient’s laundry
• Feeds and assists with meals
• Reports any changes in resident's/patient's condition to the Nurse

Qualifications

• In NJ, homemaker-home health aide means a person who has completed a training program approved by the New Jersey Board of Nursing and who is so certified by the Board in accordance with NJSA 45:11-23 et seq and NJAC 13:37
• Received a minimum of 75 hours of classroom and supervised practical training with at least 16 hours devoted to supervised practical training and with at least 16 hours of classroom instruction completed
• One year experience as a home health aide. (Hospice preferred)
• At least 18 years old
• Must be a licensed driver with an insured automobile in good working order
• The ability to communicate well, both verbally and in writing
• Bilingual in Spanish preferred

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• supplementary benefits such as Life Insurance, Short Term and Long Term Disability, Flexible Spending Accounts for Medical and Dependent Care, Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Office Holidays

Full-time Employees Only

• All employees qualify for the following benefits: Paid Sick Time, 401(k) with up to 3% company match, Referral Program, Payactiv: pay-on-demand. Cash out earned money when and where you need it!