Description

Position Summary:

The Direct Support Professional provides support to people in completing their day-to-day personal needs, cooking healthy meals, accessing medical care, employment support, and social activities. DSPs assist individuals in developing key life skills by providing supports based upon their person-centered plan in our meaningful day and community living programs. These positions are a critical to the people we support and could entail day, evening, overnight and weekend shifts.

Essential Responsibilities: 

• Supporting a person’s unique capacities, personality and potential
• Promoting advocacy with the person/people supported
• Facilitating personal growth and development
• Facilitation of supports and services, supporting safety, health and wellness 
• Building and maintaining relationships, including professional relationships
• Creating meaningful communication
• Transporting people being supported to appointments and outings
• Performs record notation and other required documentation
• Adheres to and promotes the mission, culture and practices of the organization
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

• Preferred - Minimum of 1-year experience in customer service, healthcare or human services
• Required- valid Drivers License 
• Preferred - previous DDA experience 

Physical requirements:

• Ability to lift 50 lbs.
• Ability to drive.
• While performing the duties of this job, employees are regularly required to sit, walk and stand; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone.
• Ability to receive the COVID-19 Vaccine

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Will treat everyone with dignity and respect
• Friendly and upbeat
• Ability to communicate effectively
• People oriented and an ability to deescalate situations
• Understanding of accommodations needed in communication

No person is to be discriminated against in employment because of race, religion, color, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, or on the basis of any other non-job-related criteria proscribed by applicable federal, state or local law.

The terms of the American’s with Disabilities Act (ADA) require that this Company make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of a qualified applicant or employee with a disability unless the requested accommodation would cause an undue hardship on the operation of the business. For purposes of this policy, the term “disability” means a physical or mental impairment that “substantially limits” (as that term is applied in light of the ADA Amendments Act which became effective on January 1, 2009) one or more of a person’s major life activities.

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