Direct Support Professional

Happiness Happens Here!

Work with people with intellectual disabilities in a group home or their own home. Our focus is to help each person supported to have a full life in their community.

Join clubs, go out to eat, hike, enjoy movies, go on vacations and more! Have fun while working and building relationships with the people we support.

CSI will give you all the training you need to be an excellent support person and to grow a career! We care about your goals and want to help you achieve them.

Starting salary-$20.82 per hour

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Tuition Reimbursement

403(b) Retirement Plan

Pay as you go- get paid for time you worked the next day (up to $500 a pay period)- your pay doesn't have to wait for payday!!

4 weeks of earned leave after your first year of employment and more!

You make a difference every day!!

CSI is an employer promoting diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in the workplace

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Essential Functions, Duties, and Responsibilities

• Support and implement the CSI mission while empowering each person supported to direct his or her own life.
• Develop and maintain a positive and effective relationship with persons supported. Interacting positively, actively and respectfully with persons supported.
• Provide opportunities for learning new skills and having new life experiences.
• Teach and role-model appropriate social behavior.
• Provide supports to people by assisting in the development and implementation of their vision statement and in turn all support plans, including personal spiritual growth, assisting people in achieving their personal goals and desires, providing interaction and choices for activities that support a meaningful day, and supporting people to be independent in activities of daily living.
• Support each person’s optimal health, which includes, but is not limited to administering medications, assisting people to medical appointments, and communicating with physicians and other healthcare professionals.
• Ensure that people are supported to exercise their rights.
• Respectfully assists each person with maintaining a clean and safe home that reflects his or her preferences.
• Obtain and maintains, at least, all required certifications and trainings.
• Maintain optimal communication and cooperative working relationships with the team, family, guardians and other stakeholders.
• Assists each person with money management while safeguarding his or her funds.
• Completes required documentation in a timely manner
• Adheres to CSI policies and procedures to ensure the safety of persons supported.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The ability to physically assist people out of a structure in the event of an emergency.
• Communicate effectively using English both verbally and in writing
• Sufficient strength to lift up to 50 pounds for intermittent/ occasional periods and as necessary.
• Sufficient dexterity to operate standard business equipment and other specialized equipment
• Vision for everyday reading and the ability to drive.
• Ability to walk, sit, stand, and climb stairs
• The ability as necessary to physically restrain individuals who could be a risk of danger to themselves or others
• Reach and bend at the waist, kneel on the floor and twist without restrictions