Direct Support Professional – $500 Sign-on Bonus
About The Position
Direct Support Professionals help individuals with developmental disabilities, mental health needs, and medical needs live safe, independent, and meaningful lives. In this role, you’ll support daily living skills, personal care, hygiene, meals, medication assistance, community access, social skills, housekeeping, safety, and recreation. You’ll follow support plans, document daily progress, and use behavioral and crisis-prevention strategies as trained. Success in this position requires dependable communication, teamwork, problem-solving, confidentiality, and the ability to learn required procedures and regulations.
Requirements
- dependable communication
- teamwork
- problem-solving
- confidentiality
- ability to learn required procedures and regulations
- High school diploma or GED preferred
- CPR/First Aid (provided)
- Crisis intervention training (provided)
- Frequent sitting, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, and repetitive motions
- Occasional lifting up to 50 lbs
- Occasional bending, twisting, stooping, squatting, pushing, pulling, standing, crawling, reaching, walking, driving, traveling, kneeling, and crouching
Responsibilities
- support daily living skills
- personal care
- hygiene
- meals
- medication assistance
- community access
- social skills
- housekeeping
- safety
- recreation
- follow support plans
- document daily progress
- use behavioral and crisis-prevention strategies as trained
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life, LTD, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident insurance
- HSA, Health Care FSA, Dependent Care FSA
- EAP
- Employee discount program
- PTO
- Dayforce Wallet Daily Pay Pre-Tax 401(k)After-Tax Roth Tuition discount through Capella University
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
