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.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals in achieving their personal goals and enhancing their independence
• Facilitate opportunities for personal growth, socialization, and skill-building in a community-based setting
• Serve as second staff support by transporting participants to and from program sites, volunteer placements, and other community activities, fostering meaningful connections within the community
• Ensure safety of program volunteers while at program site, agency locations, community volunteer jobs, and all other hubs sites
• Train 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
• Act as a second staff support transporting volunteers to and from primary site and all other agency, community volunteer jobs and additional hub site locations
• Act as liaison between the volunteer's job site staff and program volunteers
• Prompt 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
• Report volunteers' success/satisfaction and/or problems/concerns encountered during day activities to volunteer's Site Manager
• Appropriately complete all required documentation
• Promote and enforce 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
• Ensure safety of program volunteers at all times and report incidents to volunteer's Site Manager, and/or AHRC management and/or the NYS Justice Center
• Monitor and attend all mandatory training, and personally ensure that their attendance is scheduled per deadlines
• Sustain and schedule accompanying certifications (CPR; SCIP; AMAP) as per required timeframes
• Complete Personal Outcome Measures training prior to completion of evaluations and assessments
• Perform additional related duties as requested by supervisor

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or Equivalent
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Valid NYS Driver License

Preferred qualifications

• AMAP/First Aid/CPR/SCIP-R Training preferred
• Minimum one (1) year experience working with people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities preferred