Home Health Aide

Home Health Aide

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 Responsibilities

Provision of Care:

• Assisting patients with personal hygiene such as skin, mouth, hair care and bathing
• 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 patients, 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.
• These 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 patients 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, plan, 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, timecards 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.

Grade 165

Basic Qualifications

Experience:

• N/A

Education:

• High School Diploma/GED

License, Certification, Registration:

• Driver's License (California)
• Home Health Aide Certificate (California)
• Basic Life Support

Additional Requirements:

• Successful completion of a training program approved by the Department of Health Services pursuant to applicable federal and state regulation.
• Must be willing to work in a Labor Management Partnership environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in automated clinical information systems preferred.
• Computer literate preferred.