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Home Health Aide (HHA)
Rivers Edge Assisted Living in Aitkin is looking for compassionate Home Health Aides to provide assistance in daily living and personal care services in patients homes in accordance with an established care plan.
Responsibilities:
- Provide health care services in patient's residences
- Perform domestic and household tasks
- Transport and accompany patients to doctors office or to hospital
- Administer simple prescribed medications
- Assist with client's personal care activities
- Monitor patients (vital signs, temperature, respiration, etc) and report on their condition
- Maintain patients care records and document provided services
- Assist patients with mobility and physical therapies/exercises
- Instruct and counsel patients and families on diet and exercise
- Collect routine specimens
- Provide companionship and basic emotional or psychological support
- Proven working experience as home health aide
- Ability to monitor vital signs and to collect specimens
- Familiarity with basic nutrition and personal hygiene standards
- Proficiency in English
- Nursing and health care administration skills
- Caring and compassionate personality
- Current CPR certificate
- First Aid training
- Valid driver’s license
- High school degree
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time Shifts: Day, Night, Overnight
Pay: $12.00 - $14.00 per hour
To apply: Please download an application off our website at https://www.riversedgeassistedliving.com/careers/, apply on Indeed or call Scott at 218-429-5780 to set up an interview.
Lakes Area Career Depot is coordinated by
and is funded in part by the Initiative Foundation, a regional foundation, and Sourcewell.
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