Direct Support Professional - 2nd shift

New Vista of the Bluegrass Inc•Louisville, KY

1d•$20 - $21•Onsite

About The Position

Join our dedicated team as a Direct Support Professional and help individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities live their best lives! This role is responsible for ensuring residents are given ample and sufficient supports and services necessary to ensure they can become an active member within the community, which will assist with enhancing their lives. The position ensures the safety, welfare, and the preservation of rights of residents. Interactions with residents, staff, and visitors should always be with respect and dignity. This role involves completing monitoring of resident activities across all shifts to ensure resident treatment plans and facility policies are followed, understanding and implementing behavioral programs, and assisting residents with opportunities to learn new skills. Additionally, the Direct Support Professional assists residents with daily living skills (grooming, bathing, dressing, oral hygiene, toileting), cooking and meal preparation, and ensuring residents have appropriate clothing. The role also involves assisting residents in participating in community events, shopping, dining out, religious and recreational activities, and medical appointments. A significant part of the role includes completing and maintaining a wide variety of documentation confidentially, and assisting residents in employment and Enrichment Center activities.

Requirements

High School Diploma/Equivalent
Must have a valid driver’s license
Must be at Least 18 years old
Must be able to pass drug and background screening
Must be able to Speak, Read and Write English Language

Nice To Haves

One year of experience working with persons with intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities and/or mental health.

Responsibilities

Responsible for ensuring Del Maria residents are given ample and sufficient supports and services necessary to ensure they can become an active member within the community which will assist with enhancing their lives.
Ensures the safety, welfare, and the preservation of rights of residents. Interactions with residents, staff, and visitors should always be with respect and dignity.
Completes monitoring of resident activities across all shifts to ensure resident treatment plans and facility policies are followed.
Understand and implement behavioral programs.
Assist each resident with opportunities to learn new skills throughout the day. This may include formalized training of skills as outlined in each resident’s (ILP) as well as incidental learning in the course of the day.
Assists residents with completing daily living skills which include but are not limited to grooming, bathing, dressing, oral hygiene, toileting.
Assists residents with cooking and preparation of meals and snacks.
Assists home management staff to ensure each resident has enough, clean, and well-fitting clothing. Ensures each client is dressed/groomed appropriately for the day/activity.
Assist residents in participating in special occasions in the community, routine shopping, going out to eat, attending religious and/or recreational activities of their choosing, attending medical appointments, and other recreational activities.
Completes and maintains a wide variety of documentation throughout the day. All documentation should be maintained in a confidential manner.
Assist residents in on and off grounds employment and Enrichment Center activities.
Must be able to work a minimum of at least 8.0 hours per day with no restrictions and accept mandatory overtime assignments as required to meet facility needs.