PERSONAL CARE AIDE

PERSONAL CARE AIDE

General Summary

Under the supervision of the Senior Programs Director, provides personal care services to elderly County residents to help keep the client in their home environment. Receives and carries out specific directions for individualized personal health care provided by a Public Health Nurse.

Essential Functions

• Permits clients to make choices related to their care within the framework of the plan and reports requests outside of the plan of care to the supervisor.
• Assists with personal care such as bathing, hair care, dressing, shaving, grooming, and personal hygiene tasks.
• Assists clients with ambulation, range of motion exercises, and other activities.
• Performs light housekeeping activities in the client’s home such as changing beds, dusting, vacuuming, washing dishes, cleaning bathrooms and kitchens, and doing laundry.
• Maintains daily client records of personal care services provided and records observations of client’s wellbeing.
• Instructs clients on proper hygiene and encourages the taking of prescribed medications and following other components of care plan.
• Empties portable toilets, disposes of adult diapers, takes out trash, and performs related tasks to assist clients in daily living activities.
• Listens to concerns, engages in general conversation with clients, and provides companionship to clients.
• Reports all issues of concern related to client care, changes in condition, abuse, neglect, and scheduling to the supervisor.
• Maintains required documentation of personal care services provided.
• Ensures that clinical documentation regarding clients is kept secure and confidential and maintained consistent with Health Department policies and procedures.

Other Functions

None listed

This list may not be inclusive of the total scope of job functions to be performed. Duties and responsibilities may be added, deleted or modified at any time.

Employment Qualifications

Education: High school graduation, or equivalent experience, and successful completion of a nurse’s aide course provided through a vocational, technical other recognized education program.

Experience: Entry level position. Three-month break-in period. Prefer one year of experience as a nurse’s aide.

Qualifications:

Skilled in CNA training to give showers and baths.

Knowledge of housework, including cleaning the kitchen, doing dishes, sweeping, mopping and vacuuming.

Skilled in cooking.

Ability to provide companionship.

Other Requirements: Possession of a valid Michigan driver’s license. Prefer Michigan long term certification or home health aide experience.

The qualifications listed above are intended to represent the minimum skills and experience levels associated with performing the duties and responsibilities contained in this job description. The qualifications should not be viewed as expressing absolute employment or promotional standards, but as general guidelines that should be considered along with other job-related selection or promotional criteria.

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

Worker’s Compensation Code: 8835

Occupational Employment Statistical Code: 66011

Physical Requirements {This job requires the ability to perform the essential functions contained in this description. These include, but are not limited to, the following requirements and working conditions. Reasonable accommodations will be made for otherwise qualified applicants unable to fulfill one or more of these requirements}:

Ability to travel throughout the county.

Ability to walk over uneven surfaces to access clients’ homes.

Ability to climb stairs to access clients’ homes.

Ability to provide physical assistance to clients and assist with walking, rising from chairs, and other physical assistance.

Ability to lift medical equipment and other items.

Stooping, kneeling, and reaching in order to assist clients.

Ability to push clients in wheelchairs.

Ability to go shopping and run errands.

Working Conditions:

Travels throughout the area to visit clients in their homes, in various weather conditions.

Exposure to clients with various medical conditions.

Exposure to homes of various states of cleanliness and hygiene.