The Respite Care Worker is responsible for providing temporary care to a Waiver child in order to provide a parent/caregiver with a needed break so as to ease the stress at home and improve family harmony.

Horizon CFS

Payrate: $21hr

FLSA: Non-Exempt

Essential Functions:

• Planned Respite:
  
  • Provide short-term relief for the child or family/primary caregivers that are needed to enhance the family/primary caregiver’s ability to support the child/youth’s functional, developmental, behavioral health, and/or health care needs.
  • Planned Respite activities support the plan of care goals and include providing supervision and activities that match the child/youth’s developmental stage and continue to maintain the child/youth’s health and safety.
• Crisis Respite:
  
  • Provide an intervention strategy for children/youth and their families that help to alleviate the risk for an escalation of symptoms, a loss of functioning, and/or a disruption in a stable living environment.
• Note: Crisis Respite can be used when a child/youth is displaying a challenging behavior or situational crises where the family/caregiver is unable to manage without intensive assistance and support.
  
  • Ongoing communication between the child/youth and/or the family/primary caregiver is required to assure collaboration and continuity in managing the crisis salutations and identifying subsequent support and service needs.
• Development and updating of service plans, including obtaining medical consenter signatures.
• Obtaining consents and enrollment documents for newly enrolled children/youth.
• Attend monthly waiver service provider meetings to stay current on practices and protocols.
• Submit progress notes, service plans, expense logs, and service provider logs within set forthrequired timeframes.
• Report incident(s) to supervisor upon discovery.
• Maintain open communication with other service providers (e.g., Care Manager) to report on child/youth’s progress and identify any potential barriers and referrals.
• Submit progress notes, service plans, expense logs, and service provider logs within set forthrequired timeframes. Progress notes are due within 3 days of service provision so that approval from supervisor is completed by the 5th business day following service provision.
• Setting of Service Provision:
  
  • Planned/Crisis Respite can be provided in the home of the youth or a community setting.

Minimum Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or equivalency.

• 1 year of experience working or volunteering with children with special needs and their families.

• Ability to work amongst diverse social, cultural, and economic groups.

• Good written, verbal, and listening skills.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and have some knowledge with using Electronic Health Records (EHR).

• Strong time management skills.

• Bilingual in one or more of the following: Bengali, Urdu, Spanish and others, may be required depending on client needs