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Hours Full-time, Part-time
Location Santa Ana, CA
Santa Ana, California

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Position Description:

Energize your career with one of Healthcare's fastest growing companies. 
 
You dream of a great career with a great company - where you can make an impact and help people.  We dream of giving you the opportunity to do just this.  And with the incredible growth of our business, it's a dream that definitely can come true. Already one of the world's leading Healthcare companies, UnitedHealth Group is restlessly pursuing new ways to operate our Service Centers, improve our Service levels and help people lead healthier lives. We live for the opportunity to make a difference and right now, we are living it up.
 
This opportunity is with one of our most exciting business areas: Optum - a growing part of our family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group a Fortune 14 leader.
 
Optum helps nearly 60 million Americans live their lives to the fullest by educating them about their symptoms, conditions, and treatments; helping them to navigate the system, finance their Healthcare needs, and stay on track with their Health goals. No other business touches so many lives in such a positive way. And we do it all with every action focused on our shared values of Integrity, Compassion, Relationships, Innovation, and Performance.

Primary Responsibilities:
  • Assists patients with personal hygiene, elimination, feeding and mobility according to the patient's needs and the nursing orders for the plan of care.
  • Assists with medications that are ordinarily self-administered.
  • Provides support for and re-enforces the IDG team's teaching of the patient's caregivers.
  • Communicates with the hospice RN Case Manager regarding services provided and significant findings regarding the patient's functional status and change in care needs.
  • Documents the care provided and patient's response to care the day the care is provided.
  • Participates with the IDG team in the development and implementation of the patient's and family's plan of care.
  • Follows written patient care instructions prepared by the supervising Registered Nurse.
  • Provides hands-on personal care; assists in ambulation or exercise; performs simple procedures as an extension of therapy or nursing services.
  • Reports all changes in the patient's medical, nursing, rehabilitative, and social needs to the Registered Nurse, as the changes relate to the plan of care and quality assessment and improvement activities.
  • Completes patient documentation on the date the service is provided.
  • Completes initial and annual competency skills list observed by a Registered Nurse.
  • Completes a required 12 hours of in-service education annually or more when required by state regulations.
  • Assists patient / family in light housekeeping duties such as preparing a meal or changing bed linens.
  • Attends and participates regularly in IDG/Staff meetings.
  • Submits documented visit records and completes all job duties in a manner that meets the accepted standards of practice and the Optum Palliative and Hospice Care Policies and Procedures.
  • Contributes to achieving the company's mission.
  • Works collaboratively with others to achieve goals.
  • Must be flexible with working territory (Central and Southern OC)

Requirements

Required Qualifications:
  • High School Diploma/GED.
  • CHHA - Certified Home Health Aide Certification.
  • CPR Certification or the ability to obtain within 30 days of hire.
  • Comfortable traveling 100% of the time in the Southern and Central Orange County area.
  • Reliable transportation, a valid California driver's license, and auto insurance.
  • Successfully able to complete a Home Health Aide competency skills list and written exam.
  • 1+ year of experience working as a C.N.A..
  • Proficient using a computer.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience with Home Care or Hospice.


Careers
with Optum.
 Here's
the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the
health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the
world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and
lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is
to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the
UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest
minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach
its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams
against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one
incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best
work.SM




Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.