Home helpers
Heimhelfer is a social care profession with care assistance competence in Austria, which is regulated by the Vienna Social Care Professions Act of 2008.
job profile
Home helpers support people of all ages in need of care who, due to impaired health or difficult social circumstances, are unable to look after themselves and want to stay in their apartment or an assisted living unit or shared apartment. They help with housekeeping and with the activities of daily living as well as with dealing with the existential experiences of daily life . Own activities are supported; help for self-help is also provided. Home helpers are entitled to work as a care assistant .
You will work in a team with home nursing and mobile care services . They also work in residential and nursing homes, day centers, facilities for the disabled, neighborhood centers and facilities for the homeless. The profession of home helper may only be exercised within the framework of an institution whose legal entity has to carry out quality assurance measures corresponding to the responsibility of the profession.
Area of responsibility
The area of responsibility includes a self-responsible area and a field of activity in which the instruction and supervision of employees of the higher service for health and nursing is required, such as activities of basic care and support in the intake and use of medicines.
Responsible area of responsibility
The self-responsible task area consists of activities that the client in need of support or the social or health professional authorized to give instructions orders as part of the care plan. These include
- Housekeeping activities, in particular care for cleanliness and order in the immediate vicinity of the people being looked after,
- Heating the apartment, obtaining the fuel,
- Support with errands outside of the living area,
- Support in preparing and taking meals,
- simple activation or stimulation for employment,
- Promoting contacts in the social environment,
- hygienic measures such as laundry,
- Observation of the general condition and timely solicitation of support from other professional groups,
- Nursing support and
- Documentation.
education
The training to become a home helper comprises 400 hours: a theoretical training with a total of 200 teaching units and an internship of 200 hours. It is concluded with an examination before a committee. The legally stipulated modules are part of the theoretical training
- documentation
- Ethics and professionalism
- First aid
- Basic care and observation
- Housekeeping as well
Basics
- the applied hygiene
- of pharmacology
- of applied nutrition and dietetics
- ergonomics and mobilization
- of gerontology
- communication and conflict resolution
- social security.
The practical training comprises 200 hours, with 120 hours in the outpatient area and 80 hours in the (partially) inpatient area. It includes internship preparation and reflection.
The training module "Support in basic care", which is required by the health and nursing basic care training ordinance, is included with a total of 100 teaching units of theory.
Compulsory training
Home helpers are obliged to complete subject-specific training courses of at least 16 hours over a period of two years.
historical development
In the course of the establishment of a welfare administration in Vienna from 1946, people in need of care received financial help in order to be able to take advantage of domestic or nursing support in their familiar home environment. While the latter was provided as home nursing by qualified nursing staff, support in housekeeping was the task of home help. From 1947 onwards, the municipal department (MA) 12 was responsible for assuming the costs .
Initially, the instruction and training of home helpers was a matter for the individual organizations and regulated by their company agreements. From 1997 onwards, the Vienna Home Help Act laid down binding training modalities for the first time; since 2005 the job has been one of the social care professions. Municipal departments 12 and 47 were replaced in 2004 by the Vienna Social Fund (FSW) and MA 40.
literature
- Elisabeth Jedelsky (Ed.): Heimhilfe: Practical guidelines for mobile care at home. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 2016; ISBN 978-3-662-46105-1
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Law on social care professions in Vienna - Vienna Social Care Professions Act - WSBBG 2008 ; accessed on April 9, 2019
- ↑ According to the provisions of the Health and Nursing Act - GuKG, Federal Law Gazette I No. 108/1997 in the version of the Federal Law, Federal Law Gazette I No. 90/2006
- ↑ home help training ; accessed on April 9, 2019
- ↑ Health and Nursing Basic Supply Training Ordinance GuKG-BAV, Federal Law Gazette II No. 281/2006
- ↑ Elisabeth Jedelsky: Historical development. In: E. Jedelsky (Ed.): Heimhilfe: Practical Guide for Mobile Care at Home. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 2016, p. 62
- ^ The development of the Vienna Social Fund. ; accessed on April 9, 2019