Direct Support Professional

New Vista of the Bluegrass Inc•Mount Washington, KY

2d•$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. Completes monitoring of resident activities across all shifts to ensure resident treatment plans and facility policies are followed. The role involves understanding and implementing behavioral programs, assisting residents with opportunities to learn new skills, and helping with daily living skills such as grooming, bathing, dressing, oral hygiene, and toileting. Additionally, the Direct Support Professional assists with cooking, meal preparation, ensuring residents have appropriate clothing, and helps residents participate in community events, shopping, dining out, religious and recreational activities, and medical appointments. The role also requires completing and maintaining documentation confidentially, assisting residents in employment and enrichment activities, and working mandatory overtime as needed.

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 Meadows 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.