Position Overview:

Provide education, instruction, direct services, and supports to empower and enable individuals to achieve their stated goals and to live as optimally as possible. Facilitate community inclusion, integration, and relationship building. Acts as designated 'point person' for assigned shifts as a positive role model and team leader. Weekend availability is required for this role.

There is a sign-on bonus of up to $1,500 for this position.

$2.00/hour Weekend Differential from 6:00pm Friday - 6:00am Monday

HCA: not just a job opportunity but an opportunity to make a difference.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure the daily assignment sheet is completed and all responsibilities are completed.
• Give direction and be an on-site resource to all staff to ensure the workflow of the house.
• Main contact person with on-call Manager to facilitate service provision.
• Ensure proper supervision and safety of consumers.
• Ensure timely incident reporting.
• Refer concerns regarding staff issues to the on-call Manager for proper follow-up.

Personal Care:

• Performs/teaches and reinforces accepted infection control and personal grooming techniques; performs/teaches and assists in bathing, toileting, dental care, hair and nail care, personal hygiene, and grooming routines as necessary.
• Performs/teaches and assists individuals in dressing, clothing selection, storage, laundering, and repair of clothing and accessories, and may help them shop for clothing.
• Performs/teaches and assists in the proper use and care of shavers and razors, eyeglasses, hearing aids, and prostheses as prescribed by an appropriate medical practitioner.
• Administers and teaches individuals first aid treatments; administers cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques, and performs other health-related techniques as required.
• Takes records, and reports temperatures, blood pressures, pulse rate, weight, and other significant symptoms/health-related occurrences; aids the consumer in understanding, recording, and reporting such factors.
• Maintains confidentiality of information.
• Reports unusual incidents and physical symptoms promptly and accurately to the supervisor.
• Applies valid and accepted limits for inappropriate behavior based on individual behavioral treatment Plan.
• As per written behavior plan or emergency situation, helps individuals to gain control in situations where the consumer is causing harm to themselves, others, or their environment, or a credible threat of the above, utilizing approved SCIP-R techniques.
• Administers prescribed medications and treatments; teaches, observes, and reports problems and progress in self-administration of medication programs. Assists individuals in achieving more independence in the administration of medications. Teaches use of skin care lotions, topical ointment, and eye and ear drops and assists in their use as needed.
• Accompanies individuals to medical, dental, and pharmacy appointments, takes medications to home site and logs same; instructs and observes individuals in the use of these substances.

Food Preparation and Mealtimes:

• Assists individuals in eating who cannot feed themselves independently and teaches them to eat in a family-style setting, while promoting choice.
• Teaches and assists individuals to plan, shop, store, prepare, and serve meals using currently accepted nutritional standards to clean kitchen and dining areas and dispose of leftover food safely.

Maintaining the Environment:

• Performs/teaches developmentally disabled individuals routine housekeeping duties such as dusting, washing floors and walls, cleaning bathrooms, and vacuuming rugs.
• Assists consumers in keeping the room neat and orderly.
• Follows safety procedures in the living unit and surrounding grounds, by mopping up spills, reporting unsafe conditions, teaches and reinforces fire safety procedures. Checks to see that fire exits are clear, night lights are on, windows are locked, and other security measures, and checks fire equipment and reports malfunctions.
• Performs minor routine maintenance tasks such as changing light bulbs, fuses, etc.
• May assist as directed in various household inventories.

Individual Development and Personal Interests:

• Teaches and reinforces the use of a variety of communication skills.
• Teaches and reinforces principles of human growth and development, including human sexuality, as determined by each person's developmental level.
• Teaches acceptable work habits (e.g. punctuality, dress, and grooming), to enable individuals to develop readiness for work/school outside the home, or in support of individuals' vocational, provocation, or other work/volunteer experiences.
• Transports/arranges for transport of individuals to community events, accompanying consumers to dances, camping trips, swimming, or other age-appropriate leisure activities.
• Teaches money management principles to consumer, completes/aids in completion of banking activities; ensures accurate recording of personal expenditures.
• Helps consumer to develop/maintain positive interpersonal relationships with their fellow residents, with others in the families, and with others in the community. Aids in explaining feelings, resolving conflicts, teaching/reinforcing acceptable means of handling frustration and anger.
• Teaches/supervises/participates in a variety of leisure and recreational activities, craft projects, seasonal and permanent home decoration; assists in planning/supervision of family days and holiday celebrations as selected by the consumers, their families and staff.
• Aides in selection, care and use of age appropriate personal leisure time belongings.

Interdisciplinary Treatment Team Member:

• Actively participates at staff meetings by communicating observations concerning progress and reaction to various therapy programs.
• Attend staff meeting, may suggest alternative programs or procedures based on experience with the individual's habilitation plan.
• Record Daily Residential Habilitation, Incident Behavioral and other required documentation.
• Performs other duties as assigned.