What are the responsibilities and job description for the One on One Full-Time Residential Care Professional position at GIL Foundation?
One on One Full-Time Residential Care Professional
GIL "Grounded In Love" Foundation Inc. is a private nonprofit organization celebrating 35 years of compassionate care and services for community residents with Intellectual Disabilities, Developmental Disabilities, and Autism in Connecticut.
Full-Time Schedule:
Sun- OFF
Mon- 6am-2pm
Tues- 6am-2pm
Wed- OFF
Thurs- OFF
Fri- 6am-2pm
Sat- 6am-2pm
*Overtime available weekly to pick up open shifts
What a Residential Care Professional will be doing:
- Provides direct care to those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
- Performs personal care tasks, including assistance with basic personal hygiene and grooming, feeding, and ambulation, medical monitoring, and health care related tasks.
- Fosters positive relationships between caretakers and individuals served.
- Ensures client safety and maintaining a safe environment.
- Reminds and assists clients with self-administration of medications (with proper training).
- Encourages self-help activities.
- Reports changes in client’s condition or family situation to administrators and supervisors.
- Documents services provided.
- Performs home management functions such as light housekeeping, laundry, bed making, and cleaning.
- Plans meals, shopping for groceries, preparing and serving food/meals, feeding and clean-up.
- Accompanies clients to scheduled appointments and transports clients or running errands for clients.
- Assists with toileting, including bedpans, urinals, and commode chairs as necessary.
- Participating in monthly staff meetings and contributing to a successful team process.
- Paying close attention to detail and being comfortable working with a computer, which is necessary to support our clientele’s needs (training is provided).
- Providing for the safeguard & protection of individual’s personal property, rights, and privacy.
- Performing various assignments and demands of a physical nature, which may include the lifting and transferring of heavy weight – at times in excess of 100 pounds, with, or without the use of adaptive or mechanical equipment, or staff assistance.
- Other duties as assigned.
The following certifications will need to be obtained and approved within company policy guidelines:
- State Medication Administration Certification (Group Home Workers Only)
- First Aid for Accidents
- CPR – Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation
- PMT – Physical Management Techniques (Group Home Workers Only)
Part Time Positions Available: (typically 12-hours to 24-hours over 7-days per week) includes weekday (early hours), weekend, and evening hours in a residential based home for Adults with Disabilities. Overtime is available.
Location Available:
Cheshire, CT 06410
Salary : $18 - $19