ADULT DAY CARE CENTER WORKER
To land Adult Day Care Center Worker in New Jersey you go through the competitive route: you sit an announced exam and the score puts you on the eligible list agencies hire from.
The one gate is 1 year of relevant experience.
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Adult Day Care Center Worker is a local service title. It is filled by the counties, municipalities, authorities and other employers that have adopted civil service under Title 11A, not by State departments. Those employers set pay by ordinance or contract rather than from a State salary schedule, which is why most local titles carry no salary range here.
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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, carries out assigned duties in the areas of education, recreation, self-help, social training, and other related duties; performs various nonprofessional basic care duties and may drive or ride Day Care Center vehicles and supervises the adults transported on these vehicles; does other related duties as required.
Examples of work
- Assumes responsibility for the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of assigned participants.
- Serves meals to participants and assists those unable to help themselves.
- Provides whatever assistance is required by participants to ensure adequate standards of personal hygiene.
- Maintains an adult care program in the center setting with particular emphasis on self-help and social development to the limit of the individual's ability.
- Maintains active recreation and social programs and participates in outdoor and indoor recreation activities with participants.
- Provides assistance to those in charge in carrying out special health or informational programs for participants.
- Sees that proper measures are taken at all times to eliminate actual and potential hazards to the safety of the participants.
- Escorts participants to recreation, activity areas, and other center areas as may be required.
- Notifies the supervisor when irregularities, suspicious conditions, accidents, illness, and/or fires occur.
- May drive a vehicle to and from the day care center.
- Prepares reports.
- Keeps records with accuracy and attention to detail.
- Will be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
Experience
One (1) year of experience in the direct care and/or supervision of activities of the elderly or disabled in an institution, day care center, or other related community program.
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 essential duties of the position.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Knowledge of specific problems encountered in the nonprofessional care of persons attending adult day care centers.
- Knowledge of the housekeeping, safety, and sanitation problems likely to be encountered in a center, and of the procedures, methods, and equipment required for solution or alleviation.
- Knowledge of techniques used in helping individuals in the area of self-care and drawing them into social and recreational activities.
- Knowledge of physical, mental, and emotional needs of the elderly and disabled and of procedures and methods required to provide for such needs.
- Ability to organize assigned center training work, analyze problems, and develop appropriate work methods.
- Ability to assist with and participate in outdoor and indoor social and recreation activities.
- Ability to provide assistance required by the elderly and disabled and to maintain prescribed standards of personal hygiene.
- Ability to assist participants at meal time.
- Ability to lift and transfer patients who are not ambulant or are semiambulant.
- Ability to keep rooms and other areas in a clean, neat, and orderly condition.
- Ability to comprehend and interpret to persons in the neighborhood of varying ethic groups, economic status, and educational levels the purpose of the Adult Day Care Program.
- Ability to notify the proper supervisory officers when unusual cases, irregularities, accidents, fires, and/or illnesses occur.
- Ability to understand, remember, and carry out oral and written instructions and assignments and to organize work in an efficient manner.
- Ability to work harmoniously with associates and superiors, and to be compassionate and understanding with participants.
- Ability to prepare reports.
- 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 the 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 the 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 position using this title may not perform all duties listed in this job specification. Conversely, all duties performed on the job may not be listed.
Thirty (30) semester hour credits in education or psychology from an accredited college or university may be substituted for the indicated experience.