Direct Support Professional - Residential Services

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Achieve outcomes that characterize a high quality of life.
• Listen carefully and communicate respectfully and clearly with the persons served that you support.
• Support individual choice, understanding, and learning new skills.
• Understand, follow-through, and document support plans, goals, activities, progress, etc.
• Support person served with daily living skills and individual support needs.
• Facilitate activities that provide person served with social capital and connections to the community.
• Engage in respectful communication.
• Use person-first or preferred language.
• Maintain confidentiality, privacy, and integrity.
• Talk with person served and include them in all aspects of their lives.
• Encourage healthy behaviors (both physical and mental).
• Understand and follow supports for optimal health.
• Administer medications accurately and reliably.
• Ensure that person served is free from abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
• Complete needed reporting and documentation.
• Provide safeguards and appropriate leadership skills in challenging situations.
• Use positive behavioral techniques to avoid challenging situations and promote respect and dignity.
• Be a safe and conscientious driver.
• Know the proper techniques and be able to respond to emergencies such as accidents, fires, tornados, or other situations.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED
• Ability to pass criminal/registry background checks.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Class E driver’s License.
• Ability to pass and maintain required trainings such as CPR/First Aid, Medication Administration, and Positive Behavioral Support Training.
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Ability to perform each essential duty and responsibility.
• Exceptional teamwork and problem-solving ability.