Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes.
- Clarify and plan for daily functions related to the provision of care
- Gather information from primary carer/s about the home-based care to be provided
- Work in consultation with families about the expectations and limitations of the home-based care role
- Identify specific needs of children and plan to accommodate these needs in collaboration with primary carer/s
- Formalise and present to primary carer/s a plan for attending to daily care functions
- Clarify with primary carer/s the processes for which concerns about care provisions or plans can be reviewed and/or renegotiated
- Attend to agreed daily functions of home-based care
- Attend to developmental needs of children within scope of home-based care practice and standards
- Ensure health and safety of children in provision of all home-based care
- Follow agreed processes, policies or standards for reporting health and safety concerns of children in home-based care
- Develop and implement strategies that support the family’s cultural, spiritual and value base when caring for the child
- Respect and ensure confidentiality of family information accessed as part of job role and within provisions of legislation and duty of care
- Respond to unexpected changes in home-based care
- Work in consultation with primary carer/s about provision for unforeseen circumstances that may occur in home-based care
- Discuss, clarify and document changes to expected daily tasks, to address unexpected circumstances and ensure best possible outcomes for the child
- Communicate inability to attend to daily functions to child’s primary carer/s to provide opportunity for alternative arrangements
- Communicate promptly to primary carer/s any emergency situations relating to changes to home-based care arrangements
- Review daily care functions
- Conduct a daily review of intended care functions and make variations according to the needs of the child and in consultation with the primary carer/s
- Modify home-based care experiences to incorporate information gained from regular consultations with primary carer/s
- Communicate regularly with primary carer/s about relevant issues or needs of children in home-based care environment