Home Health Aid

Cares for elderly, disabled, convalescent or handicapped at individual's home or day-time residence.

• Assists with daily activities at individual’s home.
• Performs tasks including but not limited to making beds, doing laundry, preparing meals, washing dishes, ironing, cleaning, bathing, dressing, etc.
• Purchases and prepares meals and groceries for individual.
• Helps patient up and down stairs, in and out of bed, etc.
• Helping patient with daily functions, such as dressing or taking a bath
• Housekeeping, such as vacuuming or doing laundry
• Grocery shopping and cooking meals
• Taking patients' vital signs or giving them medicine under a nurse's direction
• Scheduling doctor's appointments or other meetings and organizing transportation
• Recording and reporting to nurses about the patient's health status
• Teaching patient self-care skills Maintain regular and prompt attendance
• Accompanies ambulatory patients outside of home.
• Entertains patient by reading, talking, listening to individual, upon request.
• Visits several households to provide similar daily care.
• Educated family about status/health of individual being cared for.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• *The company reserves the right to add or change duties at any time.