Home Health Aide

Mercy Medical Center a Dignity Health member has been building a rich history of care in our community for more than 100 years. We have grown from a small one-story wooden structure into a major healthcare provider with a new 186-bed main campus offering the latest in facility design and technology. Mercy also operates Outpatient Centers a Cancer Center and several rural clinics.Wherever you work throughout our system you will find faces of experience with dedication to high quality personalized care. Joining our 1300 employees 230 physicians and many volunteers you can help carry out our commitment to providing our community with the excellence they have come to associate with Mercy Medical Center.

Under general supervision to provide personal care including the more complex patient care duties and general housekeeping services for the convalescent clinically ill or disabled; and to do other related work as assigned.

• Assists patients with more complex health conditions including patients in an unconscious or vegetative state, undergoing IV therapy, nasogastric tube feedings or wound care.
  
• Provides personal hygiene including care to the skin, mouth, hair care, and bathing, including showers and bed baths.
  
• Provides assistance with ambulation and transfers, including the use of gait belts, Hoyer lifts, walkers and other transfer devices.
  
• Provides assistance with prescribed exercises as an extension of therapy services.
  
• Prepares light, therapeutic diets, and assistance.
  
• Provides assistance with transfers to commodes or the bathroom, or in the use of bedpans or urinals.
  
• Provides assistance in the administration of medications which are generally self-administered by the patient.
  
• Performs those household services, including changing bed linens, which will facilitate the patient’s self care at home and are necessary to prevent institutionalization or re-hospitalization.
  
• Performs simple vital signs.
  
• Performs simple changing of non-sterile dressing changes, changing colostomy bags, emptying Foley bags, and/or non-sterile bowel and bladder hygiene care as assigned by the primary nurse case manager.

Minimum:

• Must possess and maintain a current Home Health Aide certification AND Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) certification with the state of California.
• Must possess and maintain a current Basic Life Support (BLS) certificate.
• Must possess and maintain a valid California driver’s license and proof of auto insurance.
• Must provide a clean DMV printout.

Special Skills:

• Must be able to drive a motor vehicle safely for moderate period of time.
• Must demonstrate competency in use of Electronic Medical Record (EMR).
• Must be able to work as a team and collaborate with clinicians.

Preferred/Desired:

• Previous Home Health or hospice experience

• Second language skills in Spanish