In-Home Care Aide: Compassionate Support & Errands

• Base Pay $40,300.00 / Year
• Employee Type Full Time - Non-Exempt

• Name Alexis Murillo
• Email employment

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.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities*

• 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).

These tasks shall be:

• 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/assistance 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…