Homemaker

About the Role

Homemakers provide general assistance to clients to help maintain independent living such as light housekeeping, home management, socialization and companionship, family support, and errands. This level of care does not require hands-on services.

Responsibilities

• Follows all written instructions as determined by client/responsible parties within limits of the Agency's policies for homemaker as written on the service plan.
• Provides socialization, conversation, and emotional reassurance to the client.
• Encourages and participates in reading, appropriate games, and other activities to promote well-being and stimulate the mind and spirit.
• Provides for safety by using the principles of health and safety in relation to self and client, including:
  • Identifies and reports safety hazards
  • Follows assigned safety precautions
  • Practices health protection and cleanliness through appropriate hand washing, waste disposal, and household tasks
• Provides escort services, such as accompanying the client to scheduled appointments, shopping, or errands.
• Takes care of pets and waters plants.
• Encourages and supervises the maintenance of a clean and healthy environment.
• Assists with home management, including monitoring food expirations, assisting with mail, and ordering groceries/home supplies.
• Performs housekeeping duties such as:
  • Kitchen: washing dishes, wiping/disinfecting sinks and countertops
  • Bathroom: wiping/disinfecting sinks, countertops, tubs, and toilets
  • Bedroom: bed making/changing linens
  • Laundry: light personal laundry (washing, drying, folding, ironing, putting away)
  • Light vacuuming and dusting
  • Changing linens on the client’s unoccupied bed
• Assists the client to achieve or maintain adequate nutrition and hydration by helping with grocery shopping and simple meal or snack preparation.
• Encourages/supervises appropriate personal hygiene.
• Reminds and encourages daily exercise.
• Empties urinals and bedside commodes.
• Provides timely medication reminders and reports concerns to supervisor.
• Works with client and family with maturity, compassion, empathy, and confidentiality at all times.
• Notifies the office of any change in the client’s status, home environment, or emergency.
• Notifies the office in a timely manner of the need for cancellation or change in coverage.
• Completes documentation promptly and legibly in the appropriate section of the client record.
• Attends all in-service training.

Physical Requirements

• Regularly required to sit, stand, and walk on variable surfaces.
• Regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and talk or hear.
• Occasionally required to reach beyond mid-line of body overhead/chest level.
• Occasionally uses hand controls including grip using one or both hands.
• Occasionally climbs ramps or stairs or uses foot controls.
• Specific vision abilities required include close, distance, and peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Must utilize universal safety precautions while performing job tasks.
• Ability to lift, push, pull, and carry a minimum of 50 lbs.
• Ability to stoop and bend up to 2.5 hours per 8-hour shift.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED equivalent preferred.
• Satisfactory completion of Agency qualifying exam.
• One (1) year of current experience (within the past five (5) years) as a homemaker in the home healthcare setting.
• Possesses an empathetic attitude toward clients.
• Ability to read and write English.
• Successful completion of state-required basic homemaker training in accordance with FAC 59A-8.0095(12).
• Must have current HIV training and ADRD training.