Overnight Residential Assistant

About the role

Help Children Grow, Learn, and Thrive

At Grafton, we're guided by a shared purpose: helping children with complex needs reach their full potential. As a Direct Support Professional in Child Services, your meaningful impact shines through the progress you see each day—building skills, confidence, and hope.

Responsibilities

• Delivers accurate medication to clients on time.
• Supports the well-being and safety of clients.
• Ensures clients maintain good health and hygiene.
• Utilizes infection control procedures.
• Reports serious incidents, participates in reviews, and implements follow-up measures.
• Knows the strengths, needs, abilities, and preferences (SNAP), goals, objectives, and treatment strategies from the current Plans (Treatment Plan, IEP) of assigned clients.
• Promotes clients' achievement of behavioral goals by implementing the behavior strategies and teaching alternative behaviors, as indicated in the Treatment Plan/IEP.
• Instructs assigned clients to achieve education/residential goals and objectives or ID Waiver outcomes.
• Captures and documents behavioral and instructional data accurately and reliably.
• Maintains a high level of engagement with and monitoring of clients.
• Implements planned activities throughout the work day.
• Builds trusting, respectful relationships with clients and helps clients do the same.
• Demonstrates knowledge about the symptoms and supports associated with diagnoses of assigned clients and a trauma-informed care approach.
• Manages behavioral crises safely.
• Collaborates with the Treatment Team to provide continuity of support and care, by communicating and contributing to team discussions and decisions.
• Exhibits exemplary customer service with guardians, agency personnel, and visitors.
• Safeguards a safe residence/classroom environment.
• Affirms a clean and organized residence/classroom.
• Promotes good nutrition and, in group homes, assists with meal preparation.
• Provides transportation/community mobility.
• Aids in purchases and is accountable for program and client money, as applicable.

Requirements

• Must be 19 years of age.
• Passes criminal background check and pre-employment drug screen.
• Valid driver’s license with an acceptable driving record.
• Education: High school diploma or GED, 6 months experience working with children; Associate’s degree, 3 months experience working with children; Bachelor’s degree in human services.
• Valid driver’s license with an acceptable driving record.
• Additional Requirements: Demonstrates moderate computer skills – how to log-in, how to navigate the Web for information, how to start and save a document in Microsoft WORD, and has basic keyboarding skills.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED.
• 6 months experience working with children.
• Associate’s degree and 3 months experience working with children.
• Bachelor’s degree in human services.

Skills

• Knowledge of organization.
• Core values of personal integrity and accountability.
• Knowledge of symptoms and supports associated with diagnoses of assigned clients and a trauma-informed care approach.
• Ability to manage behavioral crises safely.
• Collaboration with the Treatment Team.
• Customer service with guardians, agency personnel, and visitors.
• Safe and organized residence/classroom environment.
• Good nutrition promotion and meal preparation.
• Transportation/community mobility.
• Accountability for program and client money.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Flexible Spending & Health Savings Accounts.
• 401(k) with an employer match.
• Generous Paid Time Off plan.
• Education Assistance.
• Life Insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Short-term disability (STD).
• Long-term disability (LTD).

Pay

Starting at $18.15 to $22/hour based on years of Direct Care experience

Schedule

Depending on hours worked, you may be eligible for Grafton's shift differential that is currently being offered: $1.50/hr. weekday evenings & overnight 3:30p - 7:00a & $3.00/hr. weekend Fri 3:30p - Mon 7:00a