What are the responsibilities and job description for the DIRECT SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL-ON-CALL position at Apis Services Inc?
DIRECT SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL
ON CALL - INCLUDING WEEKEND SHIFTS (MUST WORK 3-4 SHIFTS PER MONTH)
Life Skills and Educational Counseling
Chores/House Maintenance
Assist maintaining the physical plant by monitoring and inspecting their household chores.
- Model and Assist with completing proper program household tasks.
- Maintain the program logbooks daily.
- Implement daily program schedule by ensuring task are completed as assigned by
- Administrative Staff.
- Support client safety and apply counseling provisions when needed.
Food and Household Goods
- Model and assist with meal planning, and food inventory.
- Support with the creation of a grocery-shopping list and shopping as assigned by the administrative staff.
- Support and assist with monitoring of meal preparation.
Support the implementation of the Nutrition Program. - Monitor and supervise with mealtime organization.
- Monitor the food and household needs, goods, and program meal budget.
- Support and monitor client food and financial contributions to the program.
- Manage and support clients with proper food handling, and skills.
- Monitor and manage proper storage and safety of all household goods
Medication and Health Management
• Support and Collaborate with the Nurses to assist clients with securing prescriptions when needed.
Support with life skills challenges, and concerns i.e., ensure appointments are met and process challenges
Maintain proper safety techniques while managing hazardous material
Collect and document urine samples as assigner
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Retrieve and review medication upon delivery and drop offs when needed
Monitor, review, and collaborate with nursing staff upon client self-delivery of mediation to the program.
Educational:
- Staff collaboration on client-individualized treatment needs and schedules changes.
- Assist in conflict resolution.
- Provide crisis intervention.
- Participate in Program milieu
- Conduct and Facilitate, attend and/or assist with educational groups and meetings (e.g., AA, and NA Meeting, Community Meeting) as assigned by Director.
- Actively support in socialization and recreational activities during programming.
Program
• Submit Sleep Wake Diary into AVATAR System
- Create and organize client chart using table of content
- Scan documents into AVATAR System
- Document educational groups and any other significant contact.
- Conduct, facilitate and document fire drills.
- Participate in Team Support Mtgs., Staff Mtgs. and supervision as assigned by Director and Assistant Director
- Read daily logs and document in logs at the time of shift and end of each shift.
- Support in the safety of all
- Complete intake packets and inventory upon every admission into the program and discharge.( As needed)
- Escort clients to appointments and shopping as designed within the program schedule and or according to client treatment plan.
- Conduct daily documentation and filing of Sign In logs, Refrigerator logs, Shift logs, and monitoring of clients movement.
- Provide emergency coverage
- Ensure the program Accountability Schedule is followe
All other assigned task by Director to insure continuity of car
Attend scheduled/mandatory training as outlines in CBH, DDAP, and employee's individual training plans All shifts are awake shifts
See supporting document for Lifting Requirements, Working Conditions and Physical Requirements
Salary : $17