Direct Support Professional 1:1 -Day Program (Temporary)

United Cerebral Palsy of GA•Atlanta, GA

3h•$0 - $17•Onsite

About The Position

The mission of United Cerebral Palsy of Georgia is to positively support and impact the achievement of a Life Without Limits for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. UCP of Georgia’s vision is to create a community in which every person, regardless of ability, can participate as an equal citizen. To realize this vision, UCP of Georgia offers supports designed to help people maximize their potential and achieve independent, productive, and rewarding lives. This role involves supporting, teaching, and assisting adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities in a 1:1 setting for a 90-day period.

Requirements

Must be able to provide direct assistance, within arm’s reach, in self-help, socialization, and adaptive skills training, retention, and improvement.
Must be able to provide direct assistance in engagement with teaching concepts such as rule compliance, attendance, task completion, problem solving endurance, work speed, work accuracy, increased attention span, motor skills, and safety.
Must be able to provide direct assistance in training, retraining, or improving access to and use of community resources.
Must be able to provide participant specific assistance such as personal care, and self-administration of medication, and behavior supports.
Must be able to implement behavioral support plans.
Must be able to provide active support and direct assistance in participation in community social, recreational and leisure activities.
Must be able to maintain work area – cleaning tables, chairs, and supplies daily/weekly as scheduled.
Must be able to assure supplies are kept organized and in working order.
Must be able to return supplies to designated area daily.
Must be able to provide transportation as needed for participants to community access activities.
Must be able to complete all required documentation such as progress notes, goal tracking sheets, HRST tracking sheets, seizure tracking, positing tracking, communication logs, activity calendars, production tracking, etc.
Must assure all paperwork is submitted on time.
Must ensure that the environment, pace of activities, and type of activities are ISP (Individual Service Plan) directed or participant directed.
Must physically participate with program participants in all activities.
Must assist in ensuring that all support services as well as site remains in compliance with all internal and external policies.
Must compile with agency policies and procedures to ensure confidentiality of individual’s information both written and spoken.
Must maintain a positive and productive environment for participants, respecting consumer’s rights, and reporting suspected abuse, neglect, and exploitation of any individual.
Must adhere to all Human Resources Data Collection and Training requirements.
Must attend all assigned departmental and program specific Development Meetings.
Must develop and maintain positive and productive relationships with consumers, families, co- workers, and community members.
Must support program participants in their personal growth and development respecting cultural, ethnic, spiritual, and individual differences.
Must adhere to all agency policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

Provides direct assistance, within arm’s reach, in self-help, socialization, and adaptive skills training, retention, and improvement to individual participants and group participants.
Provides direct assistance in engagement with teaching such concepts as rule compliance, attendance, task completion, problem solving endurance, work speed, work accuracy, increased attention span, motor skills, and safety.
Provides direct assistance in training, retraining, or improving the access to and use of community resources by individual participants.
Provides participant specific assistance such as personal care, and self-administration of medication, and behavior supports for participant enrolled in program services. (Examples: feeding, toileting, lifting and transferring)
Implements behavioral support plan of participant to reduce inappropriate and maladaptive behaviors and assist with acquiring appropriate adaptive skills and behaviors.
Provides active support and direct assistance in participation in community social, recreational and leisure activities.
Maintain work area – cleaning tables, chairs, and supplies daily/weekly as scheduled. Assures supplies are kept organized and in working order. Return supplies to designated area daily.
Provides transportation as needed for participants to community access activities.
Complete all required documentation such as (progress notes, goal tracking sheets, HRST tracking sheets, seizure tracking, positing tracking, communication logs, activity calendars, production tracking, etc.). Assure all paperwork is submitted on time.
Ensure that the environment, pace of activities, and type of activities are ISP (Individual Service Plan) directed or participant directed. Physically participate with program participants in all activities.
Assist in ensuring that all support services as well as site remains in compliance with all internal and external policies. Compiles with agency policies and procedures to ensure confidentiality of individual’s information both written and spoken.
Maintain a positive and productive environment for participants, respecting consumer’s rights, and reporting suspected abuse, neglect, and exploitation of any individual.
Adhere to all Human Resources Data Collection and Training requirements. Attends all assigned departmental and program specific Development Meetings.
Develop and maintain positive and productive relationships with consumers, families, co- workers, and community members.
Support program participants in their personal growth and development respecting cultural, ethnic, spiritual, and individual differences.
Adhere to all agency policies and procedures.
Other duties as assigned.