Direct Support Professional Front End (Night)-Floater
About The Position
The Overnight Direct Support Professional is responsible to maintain a safe, predictable, and therapeutic living environment for children in care at Andrus while supporting the agency’s mission, vision, core values and treatment philosophy. The Overnight Direct Support Professional provides close supervision, counseling, and support to the children during all cottage-based activities. The Overnight Direct Support Professional is responsible for planning and implement individual and group initiatives to build children’s skills and self-esteem. The Overnight Direct Support Professional ensures that the basic needs of children are met, and that the cottage is maintained in a safe, orderly, predictable, therapeutic, structured, and clean condition. The Overnight Direct Support Professional works as part of a multidisciplinary team which includes recreation therapists, teachers, social workers, and other professionals.
Requirements
- High School diploma or equivalent required.
- Previous experience working with children, adolescents, Individuals with behavioral health needs, developmental disabilities, residential services preferred.
- Ability to remain awake and and alert throughout the overnight shift.
- Ability to work independently while also functioning effectively as part of a residential team.
- Strong communication, documentation, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to respond calmly and appropriately during behavioral, medical, and other emergency situations.
- Commitment to trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and person-centered care.
- Ability to maintain flexibility and work in different residential cottages based on staffing and program needs.
Nice To Haves
- Previous experience working with children, adolescents, Individuals with behavioral health needs, developmental disabilities, residential services preferred.
Responsibilities
- Assuring the safety of each resident and for the cottage community
- Actively supervise the residents at all times, based on their age and level, to assure everyone’s safety.
- Enacting the program schedule as written and on time
- Using all aspects of Sanctuary in the care s/he provides
- Using all aspects of trauma sensitive care in the services s/he provides
- Using all techniques of TCI to prevent triggering, to intervene early to prevent escalation to crisis, for safe management of any crisis that does arise, and for assuring safety and learning after any crisis. This includes becoming skilled in LSIs and conflict resolutions, and conducting them for even minor conflicts, to minimize the occurrence of larger conflicts.
- Use the scan system to record consistent monitoring by conducting visual checks of residents every 15 minutes for duration of shift.
- Documents his/her work in a clear, timely way with scanning, nightly logs, round-up, census, and other reports.
- Establishing safety (physical, emotional, moral, and social) within the cottage
- Executing consistent communication with colleagues and residents through the established systems set forth by manager/department.
- Must have flexibility to move to any residential cottage based on program needs
- Supports overall strategic plan of the organization.
- Ability to adhere to our organization’s core values and commitments.
Benefits
- Generous PTO, 4 weeks of vacation, floating holidays, holidays, personal and sick time
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Benefits
- 401(k) Employer Contributions
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Flex Spending Accounts
- Employer Paid STD, LTD and Life Insurance
- Professional Development
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
