The Local Care Director is responsible for managing the local care team to ensure operations consistent with association philosophy and operating principles. This entails the following tasks:
- Develop and maintain job descriptions, including a detailed presentation of specific functions required of care givers.
- Develop and maintain job performance measures and standards that will be used to evaluate care givers.
- Recruit care givers to satisfy the requirements of the job descriptions and performance standards. Seek out candidates through contacts and advertising. Screen candidates using psychometric techniques where applicable. A key component of the selection process will be the application letter. In this letter candidates are to show how their employment at the local site will further their own personal goals and why they believe their experience suits them for the work. The Local Care Director will discuss this letter in detail with the applicant. This is to help ensure that care givers themselves benefit systematically from their employement at the local care site. In the event the candidate's literacy level poses problems for the writing of a letter, the Local Care Director will make special accommodations for that candidate. It is the position of the Association that literacy problems will not disqualify a candidate. When needed, the Associaton will afford literacy improvement options for on-the-job care givers.
- Assist care givers in developing and implementing their own professional and personal development plan.
- Through training and self-help resources, assist care givers in meeting their professional and personal development goals.
- Evaluate care giver performance and provide performance counseling as needed.
- Provide highly successful and entrepreneurial care givers the opportunity to further their careers through starting their own care centers or through other employment.
- Provide care givers assistance in seeking alternative employment if they prove not to be a good match for the job.
