The Certified Home Health Aide (CHHA) is a member of the Home Health Team, providing direct patient care under the supervision of a case manager, reporting all changes in the patient's condition to the case manager.
Essential Functions:
- Assisting patients in and out of bed and assisting with ambulation
- Assisting with prescribed exercises which patients and appropriate health personnel have taught aides
- Preparing meals, including therapeutic diets, and assisting patients with eating
- Assisting patients to the bathroom or in using commodes, bedpans or urinals
- Performing household services, which will facilitate the patient's self care at home and are necessary to prevent or postpone institutionalization
- Assisting patients with medications which are ordinarily self-administered
- The home health aide shall not administer medications of any kind
- Performing other activities taught by a health professional for a specific patient and may include such services as changing colostomy bags, changing of non-sterile dressings, taking of vital signs and non-sterile bowel and bladder hygiene care
- Reporting changes in the patient's condition and needs to the supervising nurse or therapist
- Completing records regarding services performed
- Takes actions in emergent patient situations and immediately report to supervisor
- Documentation and Communication: Prepares timely legible and complete documentation of all care provided
- Documents all communication with other providers
- Reports stated or observed changes in patient status to case manager
- Submits schedule logs changes in schedule and daily progress notes within expected time frame per agency policy
- Participates in care coordination meetings
- Planning, Organizing and Productivity: Organizes, plans, set priorities and complete assignment within agency guidelines
- Functions independently with supervision by case manager for each patient every 14 days as needed
- Completes expense reports, time cards and schedule logs
- Demonstrates utilization of supplies
- Professional Behavior: Behaves in a courteous professional manner with patients, health professional and maintains patient confidentiality
- Participates in Departmental Quality Assurance activities and Utilization Review activities as requested
- Perform related duties as required
- Supervisory Responsibilities: This job has no supervisory responsibilities
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Six (6) months of Home Health experience
- Experience in automated clinical information systems preferred
- High School Diploma/GED
- Completion of a training program approved by the Department of Health Services pursuant to applicable federal and state regulation
- California Home Health Aide Certificate
- Current BLS certification
- California driver's license
- Computer literate preferred
- Must be willing to work in a Labor Management Partnership environment
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
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