General Purpose:
To provide personal care and incidental activities of daily living to clients in the home setting.
Essential Functions:
- 4 days a week, 5 hours per day
- Conducts the initial care delivery visit to client.
- Follows the written assignment sheet/service plan to:
- Assist the client with activities of daily living such bathing, grooming, toileting and elimination, and nutritional intake.
- Assist the client with ambulation, transfers and/or range of motion exercises.
- Assist the client with incidental shopping, preparing meals and maintaining a clean and safe physical environment.
- Utilizes infection control measures such as hand washing and personal protective equipment.
- Observes and reports safety hazards and changes in client condition to Supervisor.
- Documents observations and activities in an accurate, complete and timely manner.
- Organizes self to carry out visits/shifts and to complete assigned tasks.
- Attends mandatory in-services and provide requested documents to keep employee file current.
- Completes other assignments as requested and assigned.
The Interim HealthCare Home Care Aide may not:
- Perform any personal care or skilled nursing procedure, which is prohibited by the State Nurse Practice Act.
- Reconcile bank statements, endorse checks, or use any form of the client’s credit (e.g. credit or debit cards, ATM).
Minimum Education & Experience Requirements:
- Age of majority in the state.
- Any training required by state law or regulation or
- Six (6) months of accumulated experience in a similar job classification or similar life experience.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:
- Successful completion of appropriate knowledge (competency) assessment.
- Meets applicable health requirements to provide care.
- Other minimum requirements as defined by state law or regulation.
- Proof of valid auto liability insurance and valid driver’s license as required by the organization’s insurance carrier if assignment(s) include driving a vehicle, preferred.
- Able to hear, speak and write and read in English in a manner understood by most people.
- Able to read ten (10) point or larger type.
- Able to effectively handle multiple tasks or functions.
Working Conditions & Physical Effort:
- Able to constantly travel locally from assignment to assignment.
- Able to constantly stand, walk, bend, stoop, squat, kneel and reach freely.
- Able to constantly grasp with thumb in opposition to fingers of palm, i.e. manipulate pen, knobs or objects.
- Frequent exposure to communicable diseases, bloodborne pathogens and/or other potentially infectious or hazardous materials.
- Able to frequently lift and carry up to 50 pounds in order to carry out daily job functions and related activities that may be required.
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