Home Care Aide

Brief Description Position Summary

The Home Care Aide will provide assistance with household tasks such as cleaning, planning, and preparing meals, doing laundry, and shopping & running errands. Home Care Aides also assist participants with personal care tasks such as dressing, bathing, grooming and following special diets with a focus on ensuring high quality in-home services to participants. The Home Care Aide must be able to travel throughout the Greater Metropolitan Chicagoland Area with the purpose to deliver and provide In-Home services to participants.

The purpose of providing in-home service is to maintain, strengthen and safeguard the functioning of individuals in their own homes in accordance with the authorized Plan of Care.

• Creates and maintains an atmosphere of warm, personal interest and positive emphasis by treating all participants and staffing personnel fairly with kindness, dignity, and respect.
• Maintains the confidentiality of all participants’ personal and medical information.
• Follow a client's written Plan of Care.
• Providing necessary receipts and documentation in the conduct of essential shopping/errands.
• Maintaining records of daily activities, observations, and direct hours of service; and
• Attending pre-service training, in-service training sessions and staff conferences.
• Performance of specific service components of in-home services authorized under CCP’s Administrative Code Title 89:
  Section 240.210(a), including, but not limited to:
• Personal care tasks for participants that are not medical in nature:
• Teaching/performing of meal planning and preparation; routine housekeeping skills/tasks (e.g., making and changing beds, dusting, washing dishes, vacuuming, cleaning floors, keeping the kitchen and bathroom clean and laundering the client’s linens and clothing); shopping skills/tasks; and home maintenance and repairs.
• Performing/assisting with essential shopping/errands may include handling the client’s money (proper accounting to the client of money handled and provision of receipts are required).

• Performed as specifically required by the Plan of Care
• Monitored by the homecare supervisor.
• Assisting with self-administered medication, which shall be limited to:
• Reminding the client to take his/her medications.
• Reading instructions for utilization.
• Uncapping medication containers; and
• Providing the proper liquid and utensil with which to take medications.
• Assisting with following a written special diet plan and reinforcement of diet maintenance (can only be provided under the direction of a physician and as required by the Plan of Care).
• Observing client's functioning and condition and reporting to the supervisor and as defined by the Plan of Care.
• Performance/assist with personal care tasks that are not medical in nature such as:
  Shaving, hair shampooing, drying & combing, bathing & sponge bath, shower bath or tub bath, toileting, dressing, nail care, respiratory services, brushing and cleaning teeth or dentures and preparation of appropriate supplies, positioning/transferring participant, and assisting them with exercise/range of motion.
• Ability to assist in the use of specific adaptive equipment, if the Home Care Aide will be working with clients who use the devise.
• Basic hygiene and basic infection control practices
• Maintain of a clean, safe, and healthy environment
• Basic personal and environmental safety precautions
• Recognizing emergencies and knowledge of emergency procedures
• Confidentiality of client’s personal, financial, and health information.
• Knowledge and understanding of abuse and neglect prevention and reporting requirements
• Escort to medical facilities, or for essential errands/shopping, or for essential client…