At VNA Private Care, providing in-home care is more than just a job. We treat each client and each employee as a member of the VNA Private Care family.
We offer competitive wages, paid time off and a three-part bonus plan that allows you to make extra income – just for pleasing our clients or for referring an excellent new employee or a new client. Most importantly, we treat each individual with dignity and respect – and we encourage career advancement by providing regular training, coaching, and tuition reimbursement under some circumstances.
We now have openings for certified home health aides, certified nurses aides, companions, and per diem nurses. You can read about these openings below or click here for more information.
To find out more, call (781) 431-1484 or email your resume to privatecare@vnab.org
Current Employment Opportunities
We are seeking an individual who truly cares for each client’s well-being and who has:
- Current Certification as a home health aide
- At least 2 years of experience in caring for the elderly and disabled
- A reliable car
- Willing to travel throughout the Boston metropolitan area
- Quick-notice availability to go to cases, especially mornings
- Willingness to cover Sunday mornings, every other week
For more complete description of duties, see the CHHA / CNA description below.
We offer:
- Guaranteed 20 hours of work, as long as you accept the assignments given
- Up to 40 hours per week
- Competitive wages, plus we pay into Social Security and Workers Compensation
- Paid mileage between visits
- Paid time off
- Bonus plans that pay out monthly and quarterly for
- Excellent service to clients
- Recruiting new aides who stay with our company at least 90 days
- Bringing new private-pay clients to the agency
- Available health plan that you can buy into
Work for the best! Our CHHAs and CNAs enjoy the flexibility of working hours that fit their schedules and their lifestyles.
A CHHA or CNA cares for elderly, convalescent, or disabled persons in client's home, assisted living facility, or other settting by performing the following duties (Other duties may be assigned):
- Assists client to dress, bathe, and groom self.
- Prepares and serves food for client following special prescribed diets.
- Assists clients into and out of bed, automobile, or wheelchair, to lavatory, and up and down stairs.
- Reminds client to take prescribed medications as directed by physician or home care nurse.
- Provides socialization for clients with activities such as reading aloud, playing cards, or other games.
- Maintains records of services performed and of apparent condition of client, and reports any changes in condition to Case Manager and family.
- Changes bed linens, maintains client's laundry, and performs light cleaning of client's quarters.
- Accompanies ambulatory clients outside home, serving as guide, companion, and aide.
- Assists client with prescribed exercises to increase range of motion.
- Massages client and applies preparations and treatments such as liniment or alcohol rubs and heat lamp stimulation.
- Performs variety of miscellaneous duties as needed such as obtaining household supplies and running errands.
Qualifications : To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Two years experience as a certified home health aide in a private home.
- Ability to add and subtract two digit numbers and to multiply and divide with 10's and 100's. Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume, and distance.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems which vary somewhat in the details but are not unusual to the home care setting
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:Current Certification as a Home Health Aide or Certified Nurse Aide
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to walk, sit, climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include distance vision, color vision and ability to adjust focus.
Put your knowledge and caring to work with VNA Private Care. You can work full-time or part-time as a Companion to an older person or other adult with a disability.
Clients live in communities throughout the metropolitan Boston area. Our Companions provide socialization and support for elders, visiting them in their homes and reading to them, taking walks, preparing light meals, and other activities.
Under the supervision of the RN clinical manager, conduct comprehensive in-home assessments (completion of the MDSHC form) for elders and persons with disabilities in Boston, Somerville, Cambridge and surrounding towns. Paid time for training is provided for proper completion of the MDSHC form.
Qualifications: Current RN license in Massachusetts with at least two years experience, preferably in home health care or geriatric care in a facility.
Flexible hours can include Saturdays and early evenings on weekdays. Compensation is based on each completed MDSHC form. Call for more information.
