Homemaker

Job Summary: To provide services according to the current Care Plan

Reports To: Agency Manager

Supervision: None

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES ARE:

• Provides non-medical Homemaker services as assigned,
• Furnishing services in accordance with agency policies,
• Provides accurate and timely documentation of care in accordance with agency policy and pay source requirements.
• Participates, as requested, in orientation of new staff, in-service education, continuing education, utilization review and QI/QA programs.
• Uses agency approved software to enter evaluations and visit documentation.

OTHER DUTIES: Other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

• Experience of a minimum of six months as a personal care giver preferred, skills validation required.

ABILITIES, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:

• Ability to pass a skills validation test
• Ability to read and interpret physicians’ orders and notes from other caregivers as well as respond to them verbally and in writing.
• Ability to effectively present information to clients and employees and community.
• Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries or complaints.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with fellow employees, the public, and supervisors.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Current TB screening upon hire and annually thereafter;
• Possession of reliable transportation; if driving personal vehicle a valid Driver's and applicable car insurance.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Ability to regularly sit, stand, stoop, bend, kneel, walk, balance, crouch, crawl, push, pull, reach with hands and arms and talk and hear.
• Ability to frequently use hands to finger, handle, or feel.
• Ability to occasionally climb and use sense of smell.
• Ability to frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move 100 pounds.
• Ability to perform the anticipated level of physical assist required to provide safe client care. If the anticipated level of assist is greater than that which the employee can safely provide, the supervisor is to be notified immediately.
• Ability to use close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception.
• Ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• The employee is frequently exposed to outside weather conditions.
• The work environment is highly variable, as care is provided in private homes.
• Lighting, acoustics, air quality, temperature and environmental hazards are not predictable.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, household pets/animals, fumes or airborne particles, and toxic or caustic chemicals.
• The noise level in the office work environment is usually moderate.

TRAVEL:

• The employee is required to travel frequently to complete home health visits.