Home Health Aide/Caregiver

Penn Asian Senior Services (PASSi)

Position: Home Health Aide/CNA/Caregiver

Job Location: Lancaster County, PA

Position Summary: The home health aide (HHA) is a non-professional employee trained to provide personal care and related homemaking services to enable the client to achieve and/or maintain optimal independence with ADL (activities of daily living).

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides personal care, including oral hygiene, skin, hair, and nail care, and shaving male clients.
• Assists with positioning clients to maintain proper body alignment and skin integrity.
• Assists with simple exercise programs, transfers, ambulation, and activity as directed by the Supervising Nurse.
• Assists client with medications that are ordinarily self-administered.
• Assists clients with the use of toilet facilities and durable equipment, bedpan, and commode.
• Takes and records blood pressure, temperature, pulse, and respiration.
• Assists clients to achieve maximum self-reliance through relearning and modifying activities of daily living.
• Plans shops for, and prepares nutritious meals, including special diets when required.
• Performs household tasks essential to maintain the client in a clean safe environment (changing bed linens, dusting client's room, client's laundry, etc).
• Promotes mental alertness of the client through conversation and purposeful activity.
• Measures and records fluid intake and output.
• Promptly reports changes in the client's condition, behavior, or appearance to the Supervising Nurse.
• Completes appropriate records on a daily basis in accordance with Agency policy and procedure
• Attends staff meetings and in-service programs as scheduled.

Qualifications

• Completion of 2-Step PPD, QuantiFERON Gold Test, or Chest X-ray
• Criminal background check free of prohibitive offenses (conducted in-house)
• Bilingual (English/Korean) preferred, but not required
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States
• High school diploma or GED preferred
• Minimum of one (1) year experience as a caregiver preferred
• Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation preferred

Benefits

• Full-time (4 days/week) Overtime
• Evening/Overnight Shifts
• Annual Bonus
• Health, Dental, Vision & Life Insurance
• 401k Employer match
• Vacation/PTO
• Mileage Reimbursement

Pay: From $16.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Mileage reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Language:

• Korean (Preferred)

Location:

• Lancaster County, PA (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

• Lancaster County, PA (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $16