Home Health Aide at Nuvance Health in Danbury, Connecticut

Job Description:

Health Quest and Western Connecticut Health Network have combined to form a new nonprofit health system. The name for the new health system will be Nuvance Health. The new health system was created to provide communities across New York’s Hudson Valley and western Connecticut with more convenient, accessible and affordable care.

Potential 2k Sign on Bonus 

Responsibilities:

•  Assists the patient with personal care activities including bathing, oral hygiene, feeding and dressing..


•  Assists the client with exercises, ambulation, and transfer activities. This includes knowledge in use of assistive devices such as canes, walkers, crutches, and lifts.


•  Independently assists the patient with meal preparation/cooking and/or feeding. Must have working knowledge of special diets, diet restrictions, and techniques to maintain sanitary kitchen conditions to prevent food-borne illnesses.


• Assists the patient with medication prompts to remind the patient to self-administer his/her medications.


• Identifies changes in patient condition that require notification to the patient’s registered case manager. Takes vital signs to include temperature, pulse, heart rate, respiratory rate.

Required:

• Certified Nursing Assistant, or any person who has successfully completed a course or courses comprising not less than seventy-five (75) hours of theoretical and clinical instruction in the fundamental skills of nursing in an approved practical nursing or registered nursing education program.

Benefits:

• Tuition Reimbursement
• Mileage Reimbursement
• Self-Autonomy
• Generous PTO provided
• Healthcare, Dental, 401k, etc.

Full-Time

40 hours per week. 

Location: 100 Saw Mill Road Danbury, CT 

Salary Range:

$15.3000 - 25.6500 (BOE)

 

 

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