Personal/Professional Conduct
Staff must disclose any pre-existing relationship with new clients or hires entering the organization.
Staff will limit relationships with persons served to their defined professional roles.
Staff will not establish ongoing personal or business relationships with consumers receiving services.
Staff will conduct themselves in a professional, ethical, and moral manner.
Sexual relationships between staff and persons served are not allowed. Sexual relationships include but are not limited to, engaging in any type of sexual activity, flirting, advances and/or propositions of a sexual nature, comments of a sexual nature about an individual’s body, clothing, or lewd sexually suggestive comments.
Staff will not accept gifts of value from a consumer, family member, or stakeholder, and cannot accept personal favors or benefits that may reasonably be construed as influencing their conduct.
Staff will not take, borrow or remove agency property or personal property not belonging to them from the agency without permission of the property owner.
Staff will not solicit persons served for personal causes including but not limited to: soliciting funds for a personal or community cause, political fundraising, selling candy and cookies for their children, friend’s children or other such fundraising item’s for the staff’s children.
Staff involved with a client's care will not serve as a witness of any document for that client.
Staff will adhere to all professional codes of conduct and ethical standards for his/her specified professional discipline.
As part of new employee orientation, staff will read the organization’s Code of Conduct and demonstrate knowledge of the guidelines.
Staff will not engage in any other employment or activity on the organization’s premises or to an extent that affects, or is likely to affect, his or her usefulness as an employee of the organization.
Staff will provide quality services in a manner that is appropriate, necessary, efficient, and effective.
Staff will be familiar with all organizational policy and procedures regarding confidentiality.
Staff will follow current ethical standards regarding communication with consumers and their representatives regarding services provided.
Confidential information will only be discussed with or disclosed to persons and entities outside the organization through the request of the consumer.