CNA/Home Health Aide: In Home Care

The Home Health Aide role is primarily responsible for assisting in the implementation of the Lifespark Experience and the Life Care Management model including but not limited to assisting with Life Plan, Care Assignment activities, and delegated duties as well as honoring clients' rights, customer service and communication, emergency preparedness, and safety.

Schedule: Shifts are 4-hours minimum, live-in shifts available. 1 and 2-hour visits available
Wage: $18.00 - $24.00 - plus mileage reimbursement 72.5 cents per mile
Multiple openings: Minnetonka, Wayzata, Chanhassen, Eagan, Apple Valley, Burnsville, St. Paul, Woodbury, White Bear Lake, Lino Lakes

Position Functions and Responsibilities

Lifespark Experience

• Assist with implementation of Lifespark Experience including items identified on the Life Plan
  
  
  
  • Review Life/Care Plan and understand expectations
  • Provide companionship and socialization
  • Assist with activity and hobby fulfillment
  • Provide transportation (as needed)
  • Other Duties as Assigned
  
  
  
  
• Assist clients with activities of daily living and delegated tasks according to clients' care plan, needs, and wishes.
  
  
  
  • Review Care Plan and follows what is expected
  • Personal Cares (bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, skin care, etc.)
  • Lifting, Transferring (pivot transfer, 2-person, Hoyer lift)
  • Range of Motion & Positioning
  • Exercise & Ambulation
  • Meal Prep and assist with feeding (as needed)
  • Homemaking (light housekeeping, laundry, personal shopping)
  • Vital Signs
  • Medication Reminders and Administration
  • Special Tasks as directed by LCM
  • Observes and Reports Client Status updates and changes
  • Follows all documentation requirements
  • Other Duties as Assigned
  
  
  
  
• Make the clients feel comfortable and well-cared for.
• Manage your time; clock in and out promptly and accurately

Metrics

To gauge a Caregivers' effectiveness results are measured using the following indicators and targets:

Quality & Compliance

1. Completion of documentation including clocking in, clocking out, and task completion for all visits
2. Completion of all new hire and annual in-service requirements

Lifespark Experience

• Participation in team meetings unless approved by supervisor

Physical Demands

• The following physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.




• Walk, sit, kneel, twist, crawl, stoop, crouch, climb, balance occasionally 1-33% of the time
• Reach, squat, bend, stand frequently 67-100% of the time
• Use hands/fingers to handle, feel, reach frequently 67-100% of the time
• Lift, move, carry up to 10 pounds frequently 67-100% of the time
• Lift, move, carry > 50 pounds occasionally 1-33% of the time
• Push/pull up to 10 pounds frequently 67-100% of the time
• Push/pull > 50 pounds occasionally 1-33% of the time
• Sensory: hear, talk, taste, smell, feel; vision: distance, color, focus frequently 67-100% of the time

Work Environment

• Client's home which may include exposure to fumes, gasses, animals, and/or dust and changes in temperature and a cluttered environment. Some clients may exhibit challenging behaviors including but not limited to: anger, aggression, depression, confusion, anxiety, or inability to communicate.
• Subject to schedule changes per the client and company request.
• Willingness to work beyond scheduled shift if necessary to fulfill client need.

It has been and will continue to be our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to age, race, creed, color, disability, marital status, sex, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, arrest record, conviction record, military service, use or nonuse of lawful products off the Employer's premises during nonworking hours, or declining to attend a meeting or to participate in any communication about religious matters or political matters, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.