HOME SERVICE AIDE

Code: 02041 Local Non-Competitive

Official job specification

The text below is the official specification published by the New Jersey Civil Service Commission. The plain-language summary and analysis above are derived from it by NJ Civil Service Navigator. Source: the official specification page at NJ CSC.

Definition

Under direction, assumes full or partial responsibility for maintaining the normal functioning and management of the home, for child and/or adult care, other than nursing care; does other related work.

Examples of work

• Teaches and helps in personal adjustment with the goal of making the person and family as self-sufficient as possible.
• Supervises and assists in carrying out recommendations of physician, nurse, social worker, physical therapist or nutritionist.
• Teaches the unskilled mother the basic skills and responsibilities in all areas of home and money management including childrearing.
• Helps with the care and social development (other than nursing care) of aged, ill, or disabled persons, encouraging self-care; teaches other members of the family to carry out household tasks within their capabilities.
• Assumes responsibility for physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing of assigned clients.
• Provides for the physical and emotional care and social development of children.
• Dresses, combs hair, and provides whatever other assistance is required by the children or adults to ensure adequate standards of personal hygiene and self-help skills training.
• Performs and teaches such homemaking duties as household management and some routine household tasks, such as daily cleaning, bed making, washing up after meals, laundry and ironing.
• Purchases and prepares food for the family.
• Plans and teaches the family how to plan future meals, in accordance with income of family.
• Encourages family members to participate in appropriate recreational and cultural activities suitable to their ages and needs.

License

Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility is necessary to perform the essential duties of the position.

Knowledge, skills and abilities

• Knowledge of the materials, methods and practices followed in maintaining a household, including the planning of meals, food marketing, food preparation, house care, and laundering.
• Ability to learn from training how to function in the areas of home management and child care.
• Ability to demonstrate approved methods of housekeeping, food preparation, marketing and child and self care.
• Ability to accept direction and assistance from appropriate staff members and to share observations and problems with the agency, in order to provide appropriate help to the families and individuals seen.
• Ability to provide for the physical needs of infants, children, senior citizens and disabled persons at home.
• Ability to assist in bathing, dressing, and feeding of clients with the goal of making them as self-sufficient as possible.
• Ability to communicate effective both orally and in writing.
• Ability to exercise initiative and judgement in the performance of duties.
• Ability to work cooperatively with others.
• Ability to gain and maintain the confidence, trust and respect of the families and individuals being served.
• Ability to demonstrate concern for the welfare of other people.
• Ability to be objective toward work.
• Ability to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
• Ability to read, write, speak, understand, and communicate in English sufficiently to perform duties of this position. American Sign Language or Braille may also be considered as acceptable forms of communication.
• Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as long as they can perform essential functions of the job after reasonable accommodation is made to their known limitations. If the accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue hardship, such persons may not be eligible.

Note

The examples of work for this title are for illustrative purposes only. A particular title may not perform all duties listed in this job specification. Conversely, all duties performed on the job may not be listed.