Competency Evaluation and Annual Performance Review
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).
About this policy
- Policy number
- CA-HC-SUP-02
- Version
- 1.0
- Main rule
- Cal. Health & Safety Code §1796.44(c)
- Library
- California home care · 50 policies
- Category
- Service delivery
- Sections
- 18
In short
- 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.
What's inside
18 sections. The full text comes with the One-time Policy Pack.
- 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
An inspector may ask
- How do you know this aide can safely transfer a client?
- Show me this aide's skills checklist and who checked it.
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