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Providence Certified Home Health Aide in Burbank, California
Description:
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Providence is calling a Certified Home Health Aide to (per diem/day shift) Providence Saint Joseph Home Health based in Burbank, CA.
Please upload a current resume reflecting all relevant experience.
We are seeking a Certified Home Health Aide who will provide personal care and homemaking services under the supervision of a registered nurse. Demonstrate proficiency in delivering care to assigned age specific patient population (e.g., infants, adolescents, adults, geriatrics, pediatrics), and participate in related continuing education.
In this position you will:
Implement and maintain established department, unit, and hospital policies, procedures, and objectives as well as improving organization performance program, safety, environmental, and infection control policies
Participate in educational programs and in service meetings
Communicate any changes in patient's service requests to private duty office staff
Maintain documentation of homemaking activities performed in the patient's home consistent with agency requirements
Bathe patients who are confined to bed and who are ambulatory
Assist in the care of mouth, teeth, hair, nails, and skin, giving special attention to pressure points
Assist patients with use of bathroom and/or bedpan as well as with ambulation
Help patient retrain in self-help skills
Prepare light meals and provides light cleaning of the patient's environment
Interact in an emotionally supportive way with patients, families, and other caregivers. If death occurs, help prepare body
Attend meetings as required
Qualifications:
Required Qualifications:
Specialized training/home health program
CPR Certification – Adult, Child, Infant (Provider), including Obstructed Airway Management, sponsored by the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross
Current Home Health Aide Certification issued by the California Dept of Public Health
Valid Driver's License
Automobile insurance
Good oral and written communication skills
Preferred Qualifications:
Home Health experience
Bilingual
About the home health you will serve:
As an integral part of the respected Providence Health & Services for over 25 years, our highly skilled healthcare professionals provide a full range of home health and clinical specialty programs to patients experiencing an illness, hospitalization or surgery or, for those receiving treatment for a chronic or acute illness. Providence Home Health embraces everyone from new mothers and their babies to the elderly with chronic health problems.
Our team of health care professionals starts with the patient and his or her physician and may include: registered nurses; certified home health aides; social workers; physical, occupational and speech therapists. Our specialty care includes patient assessment and monitoring; beside protime monitoring; IV therapy; total parenteral nutrition; gastric feeding tube (G-Tube) for long-term enteral nutrition; V.A.C. therapy used to promote healing in acute or chronic wounds, fight infection and enhance healing of burns; pain management; injections; and ostomy management. From same-day referrals and a smooth transition from hospital to home, to attentive follow-up and communication with your own doctor, we provide care and support for you every step of the way to help restore your health to its fullest potential. Our goal is to equip our patients with the education and resources needed to regain and maintain good health.
For information on our comprehensive range of benefits, visit:
http://www.providenceiscalling.jobs/rewards-benefits/
Our Mission
As expressions of God’s healing love, witnessed through the ministry of Jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.
About Us
Providence is a comprehensive not-for-profit network of hospitals, care centers, health plans, physicians, clinics, home health care and services continuing a more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable. Providence is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Providence does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, veteran, military status, religion, age, creed, national origin, sexual identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
Schedule: On Call
Shift: Day
Job Category: Certified Nursing Assistant
Location: California-Burbank
Req ID: 280382