Organization name
Midtown Home Health Services
Organization address
75 Kneeland Street,
Suite 204
Boston, MA 02111
United States
Job description
- Gives or assistswith personal care services such as:
- Bathing – bed, tub, sponge,or shower (Not complete bed baths, unless authorized on a case by case basis)
- Care of hair – combing, brushing, shampooing
- Care of toe/fingernails – filing and cleaning only (DO NOT CUT), foot wash and soak as listed on the plan of care
- Care of skin
- Shaving with electricrazor
- Care of mouth, teeth, and dentures
- Helping consumerto bathroom or commodeor bed pan
- Dressing and undressing
- Feeding (Authorized on a caseGbyGcase basis)
- Bed changing, with consumerin it (No turning, lifting,or rolling by PCH)
- Toileting
- Ambulation
- Transfers (See D.19. for guidelines on transfers)
- Practices essential principles of standard precautions and infection control
- Reminding consumers to take medication
Performs household services such as:
- Planning, preparing, and serving meals
- Purchasing food and household supplies
- Making and changing beds
- Dusting and vacuuming
- Cleaning bathroom and kitchen
- Walking dishes
- Light laundering and ironing
- Mopping floors(with a mop)
- Observes, records, and reports to Office Administrator, Nursing Supervisor, and/or Service Coordinator:
- Physical, mental, or behavioral changesin the consumer
- Any changes in familysituation that may affect the consumer
- Emergency situations
- Requests from consumer,consumer’s family, or physician for changes in service plan or schedule
Duties that are NOT allowedby the Personal Care Homemaker:
- Care of a consumer in restraints
- Complete bed baths to totallydependent bedGbound consumers
- Applications of prescription creamsand lotions
- Application of hot packs, hot water bottles, and heating pads, or heat of any kind
- Care of open woundsand decubitus ulcers
- Finger/toenail cutting,toenail filing, or foot soaks for diabeticconsumers
- Consumer hair cutting, using curling iron, giving permanent wave or shampoo to dependent bedGbound consumers
- Shaving with a safetyor straight razor
- Apply new slings, braces,splints, or protheses
- Care of or insertion of contact lenses
- Care of colostomy (see exception in Personal Care Guidelines)
- Perform any duties or procedures that require the skill or education of a licensed clinician or make judgment or give advice on medical or nursing problems.
- Administer, instill, purchase any over the counter medication to the client or apply medications and administration of oxygen
- Sterile dressing application
- Administer enemaor perform disimpaction
- Perform any irrigation such as colostomy, urinary catheter, etc.
- Perform gastric lavage, nasogastric tube feeding, syringe feeding, or feeding of consumers with history of choking or swallowing problems
- Application of Texas catheters
- Transfer consumers who are unable to brace at least 50% of their weight, or who are very obese and cannot participate in transfer
- Use of a gait belt is prohibited for PCH.
- Transfer consumer with Hoyer lift or participate in a twoGperson carry of totally dependent consumer
- Perform active participation in exercise program or passive range of motion exercise
- Transportation for consumers can only be provided if authorized
- Give out their personaltelephone number or address to consumers
- Work directly for consumerson a private basis
- Provide or purchase alcoholic beverages or lottery tickets
- Perform bankingand/or checking servicesfor consumer or consumer representatives
- Perform any activity that will jeopardize consumer, agency, or staff
- Witness any legal documentsor be identified as consumer’s health care proxy, power of attorney, or legal guardian
- The Personal Care Homemaker must attend a minimum of six hours of inGservice education. The fullGtime employee is required to attend the six hours annually. The partGtime employee is proGrated according to hours worked.
- Successfully completes the 60Ghour Massachusetts Council for Personal Care Homemaker Service Training Program and demonstrates proficiency in competency by performing required clinical skills.
- Reports necessary observations and assessments to the Personal Care Nurse providing supervision.
- Maintains a personal code of ethics and respects the confidentiality of the consumer and the family.
- Employee is responsible to adhere to all agencypolicies and to act as a role model in adhering to agency policies.
- Evaluation: The Personal Care Homemaker must continue to achieve a satisfactory performance evaluation annually. A Nurse Supervisor does performance evaluations with input from others in a supervisory and administrative capacity.
More information about this job
A Personal Care Homemaker (PCH) is recognized as a mature, responsible individual who has been trained to provide personal care and those supportive services which are necessary to maintain a disabled or dependent person safely and comfortable within the home setting.
How to apply
Please come to Midtown office at 75 Kneeland Street, Suite 204, Boston, MA 02111
Languages required
English
Chinese (Mandarin)
Chinese (Cantonese)
Vietnamese
Haitian Kreyol
Spanish
Part-time or full-time
Part-time
Full-time
Per diem
Own transportation required?
No
Employee work locations
Boston
Allston
Back Bay
Beacon Hill
Brighton
Charlestown
Chinatown
Dorchester
Downtown
East Boston
Fenway
Hyde Park
Jamaica Plain
Kenmore
Mattapan
Mission Hill
North End
Roslindale
Roxbury
South Boston
South Cove
South End
West End
West Roxbury
Boston: metro area
Braintree
Brookline
Cambridge
Chelsea
Dedham
Milton
Needham
Quincy
Randolph
Revere
Somerville
Weston
Weymouth
Benefits
Transportation
Sick time
Vacation
Holidays
Health insurance
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Sick time
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Holidays
Health insurance
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Employment contact name
Terry Yin
Employment contact email
tyin@midtownhomehealth.com
Employment contact telephone
857-990-3303
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