Health Aide​/CNA - Attleboro, MA

Overview

Full-time benefits offering! Health Insurance offerings! Paid Time Off! 12 Holidays! 401K Savings Plan! Tuition Assistance! Vision Care, Life Insurance and more! *$20/hr to start and exceeds state pay average! You can also make extra depending of the shifts you can work. Mileage Reimbursement! Respectful and Desirable Health Aide / CNA Work Setting! Safe and highly vaccinated work environment including the member population you care for.

Our Health Aides and staff love the familiarity and relationships established with our members. You will likely find more autonomy and flexibility than you have in your current role. Our model is low-volume and very member and quality care focused.

Fallon Health is a company that cares. We prioritize our members—always making sure they get the care they need and deserve. Founded in 1977 in Worcester, Massachusetts, we deliver equitable, high-quality coordinated care and are continually rated among the nation’s top health plans for member experience, service, and clinical quality. Fallon Health's Summit Elder Care is a Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly—PACE for short.

PACE helps people 55 and older continue living safely  embrace differences in age, race, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, physical and mental ability, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status and other characteristics that make people unique. Today, guided by our mission of improving health and inspiring hope, we strive to be the leading provider of government-sponsored health insurance programs—including Medicare, Medicaid, and PACE—in the region.

Provides personal care, light housekeeping and assistance with ADLs (Activities of Daily Living) as outlined in each SE participant's plan of care in participant homes as well as at the PACE center; exercises independent judgement; reports changes in participant status to the IDT; participates in infection control precautions and increased cleaning and disinfecting of the PACE center as assigned and in accordance with current CDC guidelines.

• Under the supervision of the RN, assists with the Activities of Daily Living (ADL) needs of participants both at the PACE center and in participants' homes.
• Contributes to the development of a care plan for participants through interaction with other members of the Interdisciplinary Team.
• Collaborates with members of the Interdisciplinary Team to assure appropriateness and continuity of care.
• Carries out non-skilled treatments including, but not limited to, vital signs, transfers, toileting, bathing, dressing at the PACE Center and in the community.
• Assists the Supervisor, Recreational Activities and other activities staff with individual and group programs by helping to plan individual treatment programs, increasing participants' motivation to participate, assisting participants to participate when needed, and assisting with evaluation of program effectiveness.
• Assists registered therapists and certified therapy assistants with treatments and participant-specific activities as ordered by the registered therapist, including positioning, transfers, ambulation, and exercises.
• Maintains a clean and safe working and living environment in the PACE center and/or participants' homes.
• Assists with meal and snack preparation, serving, feeding as needed, and clean-up.
• Uses safe techniques in all interactions with participants at the PACE Center and in participants' homes.
• Provides accurate and timely documentation in the EMR and other systems as required by SE policies and procedures.
• Participates in daily cleaning and disinfection of the PACE center in accordance with CDC guidelines.
• Distributes workload for health aides to ensure care needs are met and site tasks are completed timely and appropriately.
• Participates in regular team meetings for health aides at the respective site.
• Pays attention to infection control precautions and CDC guidelines as assigned.
• Performs all duties in accordance with Fallon Health and Summit Elder Care policies and procedures.

Education: Completion of an approved Home Health Aide or Certified Nursing Assistant Training Program is…