Certified Nursing Aide - In Home Aide

Posting number: Spring 2026 OCSS

Department: Senior Services

Division: In Home Block Grant

Job classification: Certified Nursing Aide - Senior Services

Posting type: Open

Categories: Health Services, Nursing, Health Care Support, Medical

Summary

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function 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 essential functions.

Examples of duties

Provides personal care and supportive nursing aide assignments to senior citizen clients. May perform as a substitute Daycare Aide to maintain a structured environment for adult daycare participants through scheduled activities, participant supervision, and providing appropriate documentation.

(These are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work performed. The omission of specific duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position.)

• Provides personal and preventative care such as personal hygiene, assisting with mobility, dressing, positioning/turning, and catheter care.
• Provides personal and environmental care tasks such as meal preparation, housekeeping, and home management to elderly and handicapped clients.
• Provides simple medical treatments and procedures in accordance with the Certified Nurse Aide scope of practice defined by the North Carolina Board of Nursing.
• Assists patient with exercises.
• Prepares progress notes and reports any changes in patient's condition to supervisor.
• Motivates client toward self sufficiency.
• Performs assigned functions as a Disaster Ready Team (DRT) member, if appointed or volunteer.
• Maintain a clean, comfortable, and safe environment for senior citizens/daycare participants.
• Complete required documentation regarding tasks performed, attendance, and program utilization.
• Observe senior citizens/daycare participants for changes in health status; assist with feeding and personal care.
• Performs related tasks as required.

Qualifications

Considerable knowledge of the routine care and treatment of acutely chronically ill clients; working knowledge of general physical and mental problems of the chronically ill and obvious signs of condition changes; skill in observing basic personal health care and home management needs of patients; ability to read and carry out detailed instructions; ability to work with older adults; ability to work with people from all socio-economic levels; ability to carry out health aid work in the home of a patient; ability to practice sound hygiene and sanitation techniques; ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with clients and associates.

Supplemental information

High School Graduate or equivalent with some experience as a certified nurse aide.

This is medium work requiring the exertion of 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects; work requires stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, fingering, feeling, and repetitive motions; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word, and conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly, or quickly; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels, and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound; visual acuity is required for depth and color perception, peripheral vi