Home Health Aide in Horseheads, New York at Bethany Village

Join our Courtyards or Homecare team as a Home Health Aide! This role is all about making a real difference, supporting residents with personal care, daily living tasks, meals, and companionship in a home-like setting. If you’re caring, dependable, and enjoy building relationships with seniors, this is a great opportunity to be part of a supportive team where your work truly matters.

Position Overview:

The Home Health Aide is a member of the Courtyards team who assists in meeting the personal care, social, and environmental needs of the Courtyard residents.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Appropriately assist clients with personal care activities in accordance with the personal services care plan including Baths (tub, shower, bed bath), mouth-care, denture-care, skin-care, foot-care, ambulation, bathroom privileges (bedpan, commode, toilet), transferring, dressing & undressing activities, grooming activities, and positioning.
• Appropriately assist with household tasks directly essential to the client's health and in accordance with the plan of care, including planning and preparing nutritional meals, assisting in feeding client if appropriate, light housekeeping of client's immediate environment, change linen, make bed, laundry of client's clothing & bedding.
• Count, dispense, and assist residents with medications; complete necessary documentation. Immediately report any changes in resident’s condition, incidents, or accidents, to the Charge person.
• Accurately measure and record oral, rectal, auxiliary temperatures, pulse, respiration and blood pressure when ordered.
• Monitors residents, recognizing and reporting any changes in resident condition to the supervisor.

Basic Duties & Responsibilities:

• Assist with medications, may not administer, may remind client, read label for client, bring medications to client, position client. Client must be self-directing.
• Assists in the orientation and training of new employees.
• Maintains cordial relationship with clients and their families.
• All other duties as assigned.

Education Required:

• Home Health Aide certified.
• High School Diploma or GED preferred.
• Ability to read, speak and write English is also required for this position.

Experience Required:

• Prior experience working with the dementia resident preferred, and a genuine interest in the geriatric resident is required.

Equipment Used:

• Oxygen equipment, shower chairs, commodes, urinals, grab bars, walkers, wheelchairs, and all other generally required nursing equipment.
• Valid driver’s license and dependable vehicle required.

Working Conditions:

• May require travel/transportation of residents as needed.
• Weekends, holidays, overtime as needed.
• May be required to work past regular shift, or off-shifts as necessary.
• Working conditions for this position may include the following: inside, odors, sometimes low lighting, and working independently.

Physical Demands:

• Required to lift up to 25lbs throughout the shift.
• Must demonstrate safe use and knowledge of medical equipment (wheelchairs, walkers, canes, belts, splints, and braces)
• Constant walking, standing, turning crouching, pushing wheelchairs, sitting, talking, hearing, seeing, depth perception, and concentration are required for this position.
• The ability to concentrate on more than one job at a time and the flexibility to handle multiple tasks and prioritize as needed are essential.

Hazards:

Exposure to the following may be present in this position:

• Blood-borne pathogens and infectious body fluids/waste.
• Needles
• Combative residents
• Disinfectants and cleaners

Personal Protective Equipment & Uniform Requirements:

• Nursing/scrub uniforms with appropriate footwear.
• Appropriate Personal Protective Equipment when performing personal care, dealing with blood or body spills, and working with chemicals (cleaning agents).
• Gloves (non-latex).
• Bethany Village photo I.D.

Additional Qualifications:

• Must be able to communicate with co-workers, residents, and the families of the residents.
• Dependable, prompt, tactful, patient, a desire to work with geriatric residents.
• Client-focused at all times, while acting as a pleasant professional is essential.