{"ref":"CA-HC-SUP-02","title":"Competency Evaluation and Annual Performance Review","category":"Service delivery","summary":"Requires a hands-on skills check before an aide performs personal care tasks alone, when new tasks or equipment are added, after a related complaint or incident and each year, sets what happens when a skill is not yet shown, and requires an annual performance review. Training and competency records include the fields in Labor Code §1198.5(a)(2).","inShort":["Before you do a personal care task alone, a supervisor must watch you do it and mark it competent.","Skills include hand washing, bathing, toileting, transfers, walking aids, positioning and medication help.","If a skill is marked \"not yet,\" you get retraining and do not do that task alone until you pass.","Skills are checked again each year and when a new task or piece of equipment is added.","You have a performance review each year. You may add your own comments."],"primaryCitation":"Cal. Health & Safety Code §1796.44(c)","citations":["Cal. Health & Safety Code §1796.44(a), (b), (c)","Form HCS 281 (12/21) §B4","Cal. Lab. Code §1198.5(a)(2)","Cal. Lab. Code §1198.5(b)(1), (c)(1)"],"federalCitations":[],"surveyorAsks":["How do you know this aide can safely transfer a client?","Show me this aide's skills checklist and who checked it."],"forms":[{"ref":"CA-HC-SUP-02-A","title":"Skills Competency Checklist"}],"headings":["Terms of Reference","1. Purpose","2. Scope","3. Definitions","4. Policy Statement (Cal. Health & Safety Code §1796.44(c))","5. Skills Checked","6. How Skills Are Checked","7. When Skills Are Checked","8. When a Skill Is Not Yet Shown","9. Annual Performance Review","10. Access to Records","11. Responsibilities","12. Records and Compliance Monitoring","13. Staff Training","14. References","15. Related Policies and Forms","16. Approval","17. Revision History"],"version":"1.0","sample":false,"pack":"ca-hca","state":"California","service":"Home care","guides":[{"path":"/guides/home-care-agency-policies/","h1":"What policies does a home care agency need?"}],"agency":{"name":"Sample Agency","legalName":"Sample Agency, LLC","logo":null}}