Job Responsibilities of Shared Living/Adult Foster Care Provider

The overall role of an Adult Foster Care/Shared Living Caregiver is to establish a safe home where the individual can be empowered to develop relationships within the home and the community and to provide and advocate for the individual to experience opportunities for self-determination and independence

The Adult Foster Care Caregiver/host will be responsible for the following:

1. Ensures that the family residence is property maintained so that it is consistently in compliance with all the eligibility criteria for suitability of family and home.
2. Is responsible for providing 24-hour supervision of the participant
3. Provides a clean attractive room, linen change weekly, and more frequently if necessary
4. Provides laundry services for bedding, towels, and washable personal clothing.
5. Provides three (3) nutritionally balanced meals daily and snacks.
6. Provides supervision and assistance with activities of daily living.
7. Provides cleaning and general housekeeping in participant's bedroom and areas of socialization
8. Assists with shopping
9. Provides or assists with arrangements for transportation.
10. Provides ongoing supervision of health related activities such as:
• reminding participant to take prescribed medications;
• refilling prescriptions in a timely manner,
• assisting with or arranging for transporting participant to the attending physician's office;
• complying with health care instructions explained by the attending physician. sponsoring agency, and for home health agency;
• notifying sponsoring agency if there is a medical emergency or if there is any change in participant's health, level of activity, etc.; and,
• promptly obtaining medical care from attending physician or hospital emergency room if participant becomes ill.
11. Notifies the AFC program of respite care arrangements required for a 24-hour period or more. Method of respite care must be approved by the AFC program.
12. Manages and maintains complete records of the participant's personal funds when so requested by the participant in writing. Such management must first be approved in writing by the provider, such approval to be conditioned on agreement by the foster family to make its records of the participant/individual personal funds available to the provider upon request.
13. Must notify the AFC program as soon as possible upon the occurrence of any of the following crises: fire, accident, injury or evidence of serious communicable disease contracted by staff, participants, or foster families; participant's unplanned departure from foster family home.