Personal Assistance Provider

PERSONAL ASSISTANCE PROVIDER

Job Description Requirements

• Eighteen (18) years old and has a high school diploma or GED; or
• Twenty-one (21) years old; • Meets the personnel and training requirements established in Section 3 of this administrative regulation; • Can: • Communicate effectively with a participant and the participant’s family;
• Read, understand, and implement written and oral instructions;
• Perform required documentation; and
• Participate as a member of the participant’s person-centered team if requested by the participant; and shall be provided by a direct support professional. Job Description • Personal Assistance Providers will ensure the following regulations and job descriptions are followed:
• Shall enable a participant to accomplish tasks that the participant normally would do for himself or herself if the participant did not have a disability; • Shall be available only to a participant who lives in the participant’s own residence or in the participant’s family residence;
• May be participant-directed and, if participant-directed, may be provided by an immediate family member, guardian, or legally responsible individual of the participant in accordance with Section 10 of this administrative regulation;

Shall include:

1. Hands-on assistance (performing a task for a participant);
2. Reminding, observing, guiding, or training a participant in activities of daily living;
3. Reminding, observing, guiding, or training a participant in instrumental activities of daily living;
4. Assisting a participant in managing the participant’s medical care, including making medical appointments and accompanying the participant to medical appointments; or
5. Transportation, which is not otherwise available under the Medicaid Program, to access community services, activities, and appointments;
   1. Shall take place in a participant’s home or in the community as appropriate to the participant’s need;
   2. Shall not be available to a participant
      1. Receiving paid residential supports; or
      2. Under the age of twenty-one (21), if medically necessary, personal assistance is available as an early and periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment service;
   3. Shall not supplant an educational service available under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1401 et seq.); and Documentation