Caregivers Wanted for Berks!

The Direct Support Professional follows the guidelines of the contracted facility in which they are working and provides assistance with activities of daily living and/or instrumental activities of daily living to consumers in accordance with the plan of care. The Direct Support Professional will be supervised in a manner determined by the contracting facility.

Responsibilities:

• Provides assistance to assigned consumers under supervision determined by the contracting facility; this may include:
• Bathing (tub, shower, bed bath)
• Oral hygiene care including denture care
• Shampoo/hair care
• Nail care; cleaning, filing
• Shaving
• Dressing and undressing
• Toileting activities, including use of bedpan, urinal, bedside commode
• Emptying Foley Catheter drainage bag
• Applying lotion
• Skin care
• Emptying and care of stoma appliances
• Positioning/turning
• Assisting with ambulation and transfer activities, including:
• Transferring in/out of bed, including the use of mechanical lifting equipment with applicable
• Transferring to chair, wheel chair, toilet, bedside commode
• Assisting or providing stand-by assistance with ambulation
• Assisting with walker, cane, crutches, or other ambulation assistance devises
• Assisting with prescribed passive or active Range of Motion (ROM) exercises or other prescribed exercises when patient and the Direct Support Professional have been instructed by the appropriate health professional
• Assisting with nutritional and dietary needs, including: Preparing meals, serving meal(s), Feeding consumers to ensure adequate nutrition and fluid intake, Washing/drying dishes
• Providing for safe and sanitary environment, including: Making bed, changing linen as needed, Dusting and tidying room used by consumer, Washing consumer’s personal clothing (if facilities available)
• Utilizing basic infection control technique and procedures:
• Reminding consumer to take medications
• Maintaining consumer confidentiality
• Encouraging consumer control and promoting the independent living philosophy
• Other Direct Support Professional duties as assigned