Home Health Aide - Nuvance Health

Description

Nuvance Health has a network of convenient hospital and outpatient locations — Danbury Hospital, New Milford Hospital, Norwalk Hospital and Sharon Hospital in Connecticut, and Northern Dutchess Hospital, Putnam Hospital Center and Vassar Brothers Medical Center in New York — plus multiple primary and specialty care physician practices locations, including The Heart Center, a leading provider of cardiology care, and two urgent care offices.  Non-acute care is offered through various affiliates, including the Thompson House for rehabilitation and skilled nursing services, and the Home Care organizations.

Summary:

Provides assistance with patient care activities as directed on the patient home health aide care plan and under the direction of the registered licensed professional staff. Independently assists the patient with activities of daily living.

Responsibilities:
1. Assists the patient with personal care activities including bathing, oral hygiene, feeding and dressing..
2. Assists the client with exercises, ambulation, and transfer activities. This includes knowledge in use of assistive devices such as canes, walkers, crutches, and lifts.
3. 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.
4. Assists the patient with medication prompts to remind the patient to self-administer his/her medications.
5. 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.
6. Independently provides basic homemaking and laundry assistance for patient in the home.
7. Follows policy and procedure for assigned patient care activities.
8. Maintains a safe and orderly work environment in the patients’ homes and a clean, well-stocked work area. This includes maintaining professional boundaries and integrity of patient financial and personal information in patients’ homes, as well as following network/agency infection and prevention policies and procedures in patients’ homes.
9. Fulfills all compliance responsibilities related to the position.
10. Performs other duties as assigned.

Other information:
Required: Certified Nursing Assistant, or any person who has successfully completed a course or courses comprising not less than seventy-five (75) hours of theoretical and clinical instruction in the fundamental skills of nursing in an approved practical nursing or registered nursing education program. Must have working knowledge of how to cook/prepare meals; special diets and diet restrictions; and techniques to maintain sanitary kitchen conditions to prevent food-borne illnesses. Must maintain a professional appearance and professional communication behaviors in patient homes with both the patients and their family members/caregivers. Able to competently take temperatures, heart rates/pulses, respiratory rates and identify changes in patient condition.
Minimum Experience: six months

Location: Danbury-100 Saw Mill Road

Work Type: Per Diem

Standard Hours: 1.00

FTE: 0.020000

Work Schedule: Day 8

Work Shift: Variable

Org Unit: 605

Department: Home Health Aide

Exempt: No

Grade: S2

Salary Range: 

15.3000 - 25.6500

Credentials:
Essential:
* Certified Nursing Assistant
* Valid Drivers License

Working conditions:
Essential:
* Significant manual skills / motor coord & finger dexterity
* Significant occupational risk
* Extremely heavy effort. May exert > 125 lbs. of force
* Significant exposure to dirt, odor, noise, human waste, etc.

EOE, including disability/vets.

We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of a qualified applicant with a disability unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. If you believe you require such assistance to complete this form or to participate in an interview, please contact Human Resources at 203-739-7330 (for reasonable accommodation requests only). Please provide all information requested to assure that you are considered for current or future opportunities.