Direct Support Professional (Day Hab)

About the role

Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) play a vital role in upholding our agency’s mission and core values through every interaction. They provide continuous support to individuals participating in Day Habilitation and ICF programs, ensuring a high quality of life and promoting independence. DSPs assist individuals with self-care, health, safety, socialization, and overall well-being. They embrace diversity in all its forms and strive to create an inclusive, welcoming environment where every individual feels valued, demonstrating cultural awareness and actively supporting a culture of equity and inclusion.

Responsibilities

• Ensures safety of program volunteers while at program site, agency locations, community volunteer jobs, and all other hub sites.
• Trains program volunteers to perform functional/meaningful and/or volunteer job tasks to the best of their abilities at primary agency, community volunteer jobs, and other hub sites.
• Acts as second staff support transporting volunteers to and from primary site and all other agency, community volunteer jobs, and additional hub site locations.
• Acts as liaison between the volunteer’s job site staff and program volunteers.
• Prompts volunteers to interact appropriately with peers and with all persons at primary site, and all other agencies, community volunteer jobs, and all other hub sites.
• Reports volunteers’ success/satisfaction and/or problems/concerns encountered during day activities to volunteer’s Site Manager.
• Appropriately completes all required documentation.
• Promotes and enforces all agency philosophies, including the guiding principles/POM and CQL at primary site and all other agency, community volunteer jobs, and all other hub sites.
• Ensures safety of program volunteers at all times and reports incidents to volunteer’s Site Manager, AHRC management, and/or the NYS Justice Center.
• Monitors and attends all mandatory training, ensuring attendance is scheduled per deadlines. Maintains accompanying certifications (CPR, SCIP, AMAP) as per required timeframes.
• Completes personal outcome measures’ training prior to evaluations and assessments.
• Performs additional related duties as requested by supervisor.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or Equivalent.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• AMAP/First Aid/CPR/SCIP-R Training preferred.
• Valid NYS Driver License.
• Minimum one (1) year experience working with people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities preferred.