Essential Functions and Duties/ Performance Expectations
In partnership with and under the supervision of your home manager and assistant home manager, you will:
- Support individuals with a variety of developmental, physical, and cognitive needs and abilities at home and in the community using Gentle Teaching principles to build and maintain positive relationships.
a. Understand needs of persons served.
b. Protect and promote the rights of persons served.
c. Maintain a consistent, stable, safe, and loving environment in the home.
d. Implement all individualized service and person-centered plans as written.
e. Create an atmosphere of respect in the way you speak and act in the home with persons served and with your colleagues. Avoid judgment, offer choices, assume competency, and create opportunities for involvement for persons served and team members.
f. Ensure that each person has opportunities to be fully engaged in the home and in the community. Plan and implement recreational and leisure activities that meet individual planning objectives for assigned persons.
g. Complete all necessary and required training assigned by your home manager and /or assistant home manager.
h. Provide transportation to persons served for medical appointments, home visits, or
other activities as required by person-centered planning.
- Perform assigned tasks to maintain AFC Group home licensure
a. Food preparation, including cooking, serving, and cleaning tasks. Must be able to adhere to and follow
dietary guidelines and implement eating programs for assigned persons.
b. Perform home maintenance, including scrubbing, mopping, dusting, laundry, and vacuuming in accordance with shift checklists and other guidance provided.
c. Support individuals in performing personal care tasks, including toileting, bathing, eating, and dressing.
d. Administer medication with adherence to corporate, licensing, and legal standards and policies.
e. Perform all job tasks and responsibilities in accordance with HGA policy and any licensing and contractual requirements.
f. Maintain and exhibit a caring and positive attitude that contributes to a welcoming, joyful, and harmonious home atmosphere.
- Maintain records, including case notes, progress notes, and program data
a. Complete necessary shift checklists prior to end of each shift.
b. Document progress daily for assigned individuals in accordance with individualized service plans and person-centered plans.
c. Complete all required logs and progress reports prior to end of each shift.
d. Complete sentinel reporting requirements prior to end of shift.
- Communicate effectively and professionally with co-workers, supervisors, persons served, funding source representatives, and others within the home and community.
a. Demonstrate professionalism when representing HGA or persons served.
b. Communicate notable events with co-workers and ensure that a complete report is made to in-coming staff at the end of each shift.
c. Maintain respectful communication to promote a positive working/living environment.
d. Maintain professionalism with agency partner representatives, guardians/families, and others visiting
the home or encountered in the community.
e. Report any concerns/events to supervisor as outlined in corporate policy.
- Demonstrate commitment to quality services, as evidenced in responsiveness, effectiveness, and efficiency in delivering person-centered services.
a) Maintain good working relationships with clinicians, licensing consultant, and guardians.
b) Ensure all documentation is completed in a timely professional manner.
c) Ensure medical needs of each person are met, with appropriate follow up documentation completed in a timely manner.
d) Ensure programs and guidelines are followed as written, including behavioral support, person-centered plans, and other individualized plans of service.
e) Honor and safeguard the rights and dignity of all persons served and co-workers all times and take necessary actions to remediate any potential or actual violation that occurs.
f) Identify and pursue opportunities to increase knowledge and skills to improve management/leadership effectiveness.
g) Demonstrate strong interpersonal and communication skills which reflect integrity, ethics, and respect for all levels of HGA persons served, staff, partners, and stakeholders.
h) Identify problems and take ownership when addressing difficult situations.
i) Advocate for persons served to ensure quality of life and to protect their rights in all situations and locations.
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications/Experience
High school diploma or equivalent.
Other: Valid unrestricted Michigan driver’s license. Good driving record. Ability to work within the Mission of the agency. Satisfactory background check.
Requirements
The physical demands described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is frequently required to stand or walk, kneel, climb, stoop, bend, twist, and reach; talk or hear; use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; lift up to 50 pounds; have close, distant, and peripheral vision; and tolerate moderate to loud noise. Infrequently, the employee may be required to lift as much as 100 pounds in conjunction with another staff person.
