N.J. Admin. Code § 8:43J-6.3

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 11, June 3, 2024

Section 8:43J-6.3 - Personnel

(a) The facility shall make reasonable efforts to ensure that all staff providing direct care to children in the facility are in good health and are concerned for the safety and well-being of children;

1. A staff member who has been fingerprinted and is awaiting the results of the criminal background investigation may begin employment, as long as the staff member is not left unsupervised with children.

i. A staff member awaiting the results of a criminal background investigation shall not count toward a facility's staffing level.

(b) The facility shall develop written job descriptions and ensure that personnel are assigned duties based upon their education, training and competencies and in accordance with their job descriptions.

(c) The facility shall ensure that all personnel who require licensure, certification or authorization to provide care to children shall hold current licensure, certification or authorization, in good standing, under the appropriate laws or rules of the State of New Jersey.

(d) The facility shall maintain written staffing schedules that the facility shall implement in a manner that ensures continuity of care.

(e) The facility shall develop and implement a staff orientation plan and a staff training and education plan, including plans for each service and designation of person(s) responsible for providing ongoing training.

1. All staff shall receive orientation at the time of employment and a monthly ongoing in-service training.

i. At least once annually, the monthly in-service training shall address emergency plans and procedures, infection prevention and control, child rights and identification of child abuse.

ii. The facility shall document the orientation and the monthly ongoing in-service training of all staff.

(f) Facilities shall maintain employee health records for each employee in a confidential manner and separate from personnel records and shall ensure that the records contain documentation of the performance and the results of all required medical screening tests.

(g) The facility shall develop personnel policies and procedures that identify the minimum content of an employee's personnel file and that require each employee's personnel file to contain, at a minimum, an employee's:

1. Current licensure information as applicable;

2. Position description;

3. Clearance from the Department's Criminal Background Investigation Unit; and

4. Signed acknowledgement of receipt of the applicable policies for the performance of overtime, compensatory time, performance evaluations and termination of employment.

N.J. Admin. Code § 8:43J-6.3