Direct Support Professional Day Hab
About The Position
This is a full-time position responsible for consumer programming and care. The role involves assisting individuals with intellectual disabilities with personal care, daily living skills, and physical transfers. Responsibilities include dispensing medications, providing programming as written, ensuring safety through supervision, reinforcing positive behavior, and utilizing least restrictive prompting. Accurate and timely documentation of programming, personal care, and medical information is essential. The role also includes maintaining cleanliness, following universal precautions, protecting confidentiality, participating in training, and representing the organization professionally. Competencies include confidentiality, putting individuals first, building positive relationships, professionalism, supporting health and safety, justice, fairness, equity, and advocacy.
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED
- One year experience working with people with developmental disabilities
Responsibilities
- Ultimate responsibility for consumer programming and care
- Assist people with intellectual disabilities with all aspects of personal care using appropriate level of privacy.
- Provide first aid and nursing assistance as necessary or as requested by nurse or supervisor.
- Assist people with intellectual disabilities with daily living skills.
- Assist with lifting, transferring and positioning as prescribed.
- Dispense medications in accordance with established policies and procedures.
- Provide programming as written by Habilitation Coordinator.
- Communicate programming information to Habilitation Coordinator and Program Manager as needed.
- Ensure safety of people with intellectual disabilities by providing the prescribed level of supervision all times.
- Reinforce positive behavior of people supported at all times.
- Utilize the least restrictive prompting at all times.
- Follow behaviors plans as written.
- Complete timely and accurate documentation as required.
- Contemporaneously and accurately document programming as per policy and procedure manual.
- Accurately document personal care and medical information as prescribed.
- Assist with cleanliness and upkeep as instructed.
- Follow universal precautions protocols.
- Protect confidentiality.
- Participate in required trainings.
- Professionally represent Citizen Advocates, Inc. with families, other organizations and the community as a whole.
- Follow program policy and procedure manual as written.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
