2024-05-22
Beth Israel Lahey Health
Other
/yr
full-time
employee
Plymouth
Massachusetts
02360
United States
**Job Type:** Regular
**Time Type:** Full time
**Work Shift:** Day (United States of America)
**FLSA Status:** Non-Exempt
**When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, youre making a difference in peoples lives.**
40hpw; Day Shift, Rotating weekends and holidays
**Job Description:**
**Duties/Responsibilities**
+ Assists client with activities of daily living and assists in instructed exercise program.
+ Maintains awareness of clients physical, mental and spiritual well-being
+ Promotes client's self participation in ADLs where appropriate
+ Enhances clients muscular use by providing proper body alignment. Exercises extremities through active and passive ROM as indicated and ambulates with or without assistive devices.
+ Transfers clients per care plan.
+ Performs the following client services: bathing, assisting in skin care (reporting any skin changes), assisting in foot care, oral hygiene, shampooing, filing and cleaning nails, dressing, shaving, and monitoring variations of the clients physical baseline.
+ Ensures adequate nutrition and hydration of client. Prepares meals, monitors intake, and assists in feeding when indicated.
+ Ensures clients general elimination is in normal pattern. Assists with use of commodes, bedpans and urinals. Monitors output when indicated; performs basic ostomy and incontinence care.
+ Reminds clients to take prescribed medications.
+ When instructed, takes temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure.
+ Performs limited home management tasks in the immediate client environment, which may include: meal preparation, washing dishes, light laundry, light housekeeping, and bed making with linen changing.
+ Works collaboratively with other community health care providers.
+ Attends support groups
+ May provide lengthy service visits, extended hours or overnights.
+ Participates as a member of the Hospice Interdisciplinary Team to address problems.
+ Provides emotional support to assist dying patients.
+ Responsible for providing care in a skilled nurse facility.
+ **_Perform selected activities as written on the care plan under the supervision of the nurse or therapist including:_**
+ _Ostomy care._
+ _Dressing reinforcement._
+ _Simple dressing procedure._
+ _Apply splints, braces, ace bandages and elastic stockings._
+ _Measures and records fluid intake and output_
**_Responsibilities of the Hospice Aide:_**
+ _Adheres to Agency infection control policies._
+ _Participates in team conferences._
+ _Completes the required twelve hour annual inservice requirements._
+ _Maintains a professional relationship with and adheres to Agency confidentiality practice._
+ _Reports changed behaviors or indications of client problems including: safety, abuse, neglect, and environmental hazards._
+ _Maintains and submits accurate weekly documentation of time sheets/flow sheets_ _._
+ _Adheres to the clients written care plan and informs the supervisor or case manager of any change in condition or family situation._
+ _Seeks assistance and notifies the agency when a change of schedule is required or when there appears to be a safety risk for self or others._
+ _Assists in personal care and home management relating to comfort, care, and safety of a client in the home._
**_HOSPICE AIDES MAY NOT:_**
+ _Perform any duties or procedures that require the skill or education of a licensed clinician._
+ _Make judgment or give advice on medical or nursing problems._
+ _Handle finances of clients or their representatives, including any banking functions, handling cash and valuables, or purchasing tobacco, alcohol or lottery tickets._
+ _Administer/pour/dispense/instill any medications, including med patches, over-the-counter medications or MD prescribed medications._
+ _Transport clients or family members_
+ _Perform housecleaning, except light housekeeping directly relating to client care._
+ _Grocery shop._
+ _Give haircuts or cut nails._
+ _Apply sterile dressing._
+ _Administer enemas, perform disimpaction, perform irrigations of any kind, including colostomy, urinary catheter, etc._
+ _Perform gastric lavage or nasogastric tube feeding._
+ _Apply heat in any form._
+ _Care for tracheostomy._
+ _Provide clients with their personal telephone numbers._
+ _Work directly for clients on a private duty basis._
_Perform any activity that will jeopardize a client, the agency or a staff member._
_It is understood that this is a summary of key job functions and does not include every detail of the job that may reasonably be required._
**Education/Experience Required**
+ _Ability to read, write and speak English._
+ _Dependability and a caring attitude._
+ _Home Health or Hospice Experience preferred_
+ _Reliable transportation required_
**Registration/Certification**
+ _Home Health Aide Certificate required_
**As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more (https://www.bilh.org/newsroom/bilh-to-require-covid-19-influenza-vaccines-for-all-clinicians-staff-by-oct-31) about this requirement.**
**More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.**
**Equal Opportunity** **Employer/Veterans/Disabled**
