Supported Home Living Sta

Caregiver • Wichita Falls, TX

22d

About The Position

The Supported Home Living Team member provides services to participants in the Home and Community Based Service (HCS) and Texas Home Living (TxHmL) programs in their homes or in the community, in accordance with each participant’s Person Directed Plan (PDP). Medicaid Waiver Home and Community-Based Services must be delivered in compliance with Evidentiary Certification Principles.

The role provides one-to-one assistance with daily living and social skills, communication, activities, behavioral support, and access to community services. The team member works with participants, families, neighbors, and professionals, and supports the development and implementation of the PDP. The position also involves documenting services, following safety and infection-control practices, reporting hazards and accidents, and completing health-related tasks that do not require standing physician orders.

Caregiver, Inc. provides care to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to help them live independently and uniquely. The company describes its work as grounded in integrity, accountability, transparency, and compassion.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED.
• Ability to recognize emergencies and implement emergency procedures.
• Demonstrated respect for participants, their property, and their privacy.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality related to agency activities, personnel actions, and participants.
• Knowledge and use of universal precautions and basic infection-control procedures.
• On-the-job experience demonstrating increased knowledge, skills, and abilities in providing services to more difficult individuals.
• Ability to intervene with combative or aggressive individuals and participate in strenuous Handle with Care physical-intervention training.
• Ability to perform Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).
• Ability to lift or carry up to 75 pounds without assistance and more than 100 pounds with assistance.

Responsibilities

• Provide one-to-one assistance with daily living and social skills.
• Help participants access communication and environmental information in clear, understandable ways.
• Build relationships that recognize, understand, and honor participants’ attempts to communicate or engage.
• Periodically develop and prepare activities for participants.
• Complete work logs describing activities and successful and unsuccessful techniques.
• Provide technical assistance to others working with the participant.
• Build working relationships with participants’ families, neighbors, and professionals.
• Participate in and assist with developing the Person Directed Plan (PDP).
• Assist with implementing the PDP and document areas identified as needs in the plan.
• Report accidents and dangerous conditions and observe safety practices.
• Follow the written intervention plan when working with family members and IDT team members.
• Transport participants to community services and resources required by the plan of care.
• Provide instruction and support with meal planning and preparation, self-care and hygiene, normally self-administered medications, household tasks, money management, safety and security, interpersonal communication, daily schedules and routines, and mobility, ambulation, and exercise.
• Provide behavioral support.
• Perform health-related tasks that do not require standing physician orders.
• Work cooperatively with others to achieve goals and foster cooperation, trust, group identity, commitment, and team spirit.
• Request and use leave appropriately, dress appropriately, observe health, safety, and sanitation policies, and follow other rules of conduct and policies.

Benefits

• No-credit-check bank accounts for employees, with cash-advance opportunities through Branch Bank.
• $10,000 in life insurance at no cost to employees.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, voluntary life and AD&D, supplemental insurance, and 401(k) for eligible employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: High school or GED