Direct Support Professional

Description

Overview: The Direct Support Professional provides direct service work with at risk populations in out-of-home service settings, with emphasis on ensuring health and safety, obtaining permanency, and enhancing overall well-being in a mentoring environment. Employees in this role can expect the following:

• Extensive Employee Training
• Competitive Salary and Benefits
• Opportunities to advance
• Working with multi-systems youth and/or complex case youth from various backgrounds
• Focus on safety, comprehensive assessment, education, service planning, and family reunification

$15.00 - $18.00 $2,000 Signing Bonus

*Signing Bonus will be paid in $500 increments every 60 days for a maximum of $2,000.*

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provide required levels of supervision and security for residents at all times.
• Promote healthy, professional, and mentoring relationships with residents in all daily living activities that facilitate competency development, improve safety, enhance permanency attainment, and increase overall well-being.
• Participate in the development of all service components, including referral and intake, assessment, service planning and delivery, and discharge, as indicated and/or as directed.
• Provide timely, accurate and professional written and verbal documentation of all program operations and service components.
• Anticipate and/or intervene directly in crises, using approved behavior management and crisis intervention techniques, including but not limited to: de-escalation techniques, active listening; conflict resolution; proximity control, body language, individual and/or group strategies.
• Supervise and document the administration of prescribed and non-prescribed medications in accordance with state regulations and agency policies.
• Provide transportation for residents to ensure their safety on appointments, in accordance with agency policies and legal mandates.
• Attend all meetings, supervisions and trainings as required including procedures, practices and documentation involving use of emergency measures, restrictive procedures and alternatives to coercive treatment of consumers.

Requirements

• High school diploma/GED.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Schedule may require working evenings, weekends, holidays, and overtime, as required and/or directed.
• Computer knowledge and strong communication skills.
• Support the organization’s mission along with sensitivity of cultural and workplace.
• Ability to handle confidential information and HIPAA guidelines.

Working Conditions:

• Working hours may include nights, weekends, and/or holidays.
• Positions are located in a variety of community-based settings.
• May be required to supervise visits to residents’ homes, schools and supportive services to ensure youth safety within the community.
• Lifting 50 lbs. maximum with frequent lifting and or carrying objects weighing up to 25 lbs. Position may involve pushing, pulling and reaching as well as long periods (four to eight hours) of walking and standing.

Familylinks is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Provider

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Salary : $15 - $18