“ What are the most important skills a home health aide needs to have? A home health aide enables an ailing person to stay in his or her home rather than move into a facility. The job of the aide is to provide all sorts of support to make that possible. This requires a variety of both hard and soft skills. “ you would normally have a base sheet that would tell you the requirements and you would have to follow them shortly after and judge if the person truly meets the skills well& correctly.