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Description
We are a local nonprofit that is hiring Direct Support Professionals (DSP) to help adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in their journey to live a full and dignified life, both in their homes and in the community. Everyday duties include cleaning, housekeeping, medication administration, cooking, caregiving, and bathing. Additionally, DSPs accompany our clients when they go fishing, attend the fair, shop for clothing, or go on vacation. We make a difference in someone's life!
Our full-time employees work a consistent schedule every week. There are opportunities for overtime. We provide extensive paid on-the-job training to help you successfully help others!
No prior experience is required! However, prior experience as a caregiver (or related field) is considered when offering a starting wage.
Wage Range: $16 - $22 per hour, starting wage depending on experience
Location: PENDLETON, OR
Benefits
Full-time employees qualify for our benefits package which includes partially company-paid medical, dental, and vision. Additional benefits include fully company-paid life insurance, disability insurance, Employee Assistance Program, and worldwide travel assistance! Employees also earn paid vacation time and paid sick time (Subject to waiting periods).
Essential Responsibilities and Duties include, but are not limited to:
Requirements
Physical Demands
Physical demands include assisting in all aspects of activities of daily living for clients, transporting clients, and traveling from location to location as needs dictate. 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 accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to sit; stand; walk; use hands to handle documents and/or objects; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop; talk or hear; taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Equal Opportunity Employer
HPI does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, citizenship, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, age, military service, veteran status, receipt of public assistance, because of a juvenile criminal record that has been expunged, genetic and family medical history information, physical or mental disability, and/or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, when recruiting, hiring, training, transferring or promoting employees at all levels.
Full Time
Business Services
$34k-38k (estimate)
04/01/2023
05/29/2024
horizonprojectinc.com
PENDLETON, OR
25 - 50
1977
RICK CURREN
$5M - $10M
Business Services
Horizon Project Inc. was founded in 1977 by a group of local citizens in Milton-Freewater with a goal to enable adults with developmental disabilities to participate in out of home activities. Over the past 40 years, Horizon has grown geographically and functionally to become the largest single provider of residential and employment supports to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). Today our service professionals provide comprehensive community services in Milton-Freewater, Pendleton, and Hermiston. We serve people in smaller surrounding communities and in parts of un...incorporated Umatilla County.
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