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Residential Counselor (Developmental Disabilities)

Vinfen · Lowell, MA · 3 wk ago
Healthcare$21.27/hrPart-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings

for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections with real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. Must not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Must preserve all substantive info. We need to parse the posting. Key sections: - About the role: description of role: "As a Residential Counselor, you will provide direct support to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in a small group residential setting or an individual living arrangement. In your role you will work together with the people we serve, their families, friends, employers, and other support staff to transform their lives by either building independence skills or increasing each person's quality of life." That's about the role. - Responsibilities: list of duties. Many bullet points. We'll need to extract them into
  • . Must preserve all substantive info. We'll need to include each duty as list item. - Qualifications: includes high school diploma or GED required, experience working with people with developmental disabilities and/or brain injury strongly preferred, strong time management and writing skills, age >=21, valid US driver's license for at least 6 months, must become CPR, First Aid certified within 2 weeks, MAP certified within 150 days, Safety Care within 90 days, must pass CORI, reference, national fingerprinting and driving record check. - Knowledge And Skills: list of knowledge and skills. Could be under Skills section. - Learn Or Master The Following Areas: similar to knowledge and skills. - Typical Requirements: candidates with one or more years experience etc. - Preferred /Required Education: high school diploma or equivalent required. - Driving Requirements: details. - Physical Effort: details. - Specific vision abilities: details. - Required Certifications: CPR within two weeks, First Aid within two weeks, MAP within 150 days, PBS Tier 1 within 150 days, Safety Care within 90 days. - Pay Range: USD $21.27 - USD $21.27 /Hr. (so fixed $21.27/hour). That is specific pay. - Benefits: The posting mentions "We offer great training, great benefits, career growth and job security!" but no specifics. It says "great benefits" but not specific. According to rules, we should not create Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It says "great benefits" but not specific; is that considered stating benefits? It's vague. The rule: "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It does state "great benefits" but not specific. I'd argue it's not specific enough; we should not create a Benefits section because it's not concrete. However we could include a short paragraph about benefits under About Vinfen? But the instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So maybe we omit Benefits. - Schedule: not mentioned. - About Vinfen: we could have an "About the company" section? Not in allowed headings list. Allowed headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we should fit company info maybe under About the role? Or maybe under Qualifications? Not appropriate. Could we create a section "About Vinfen"? Not allowed. So we might incorporate that info into a paragraph under About the role? But that would mix role description with company info. The instruction: "Use

    for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It says e.g., implying those are examples but we can use those headings. It doesn't forbid other headings, but likely they expect only those. Safer to stick to those headings. We can put company info under "About the role" maybe as a second paragraph. But we also have "About Vinfen Why Vinfen? We are committed to you! We offer great training, great benefits, career growth and job security! About Us Established in 1977, Vinfen is a nonprofit..." This is substantive. We could include it under "About the role" as a paragraph about the organization. Or we could create a separate section "About the company" but not in list. Might be okay to add a heading "About Vinfen"? The instruction says "Use

    for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." The e.g. suggests those are examples, not exhaustive. However they also say "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could add a section "About Vinfen" if it's substantive. But they didn't forbid other headings. However to be safe, we could incorporate that info under "About the role" as a paragraph. We also have "My Job. My Community. My Vinfen." tagline; could be included. We need to remove boilerplate: EEO statement, application instructions, cookie/navigation/legal etc. The posting includes "Vinfen is an Equal Opportunity Employer..." that's boilerplate; remove. Also "My Job. My Community. My Vinfen." maybe not boilerplate but could be kept as part of About Vinfen. We need to preserve all substantive information: duties, qualifications, knowledge/skills, typical requirements, driving requirements, physical effort, vision abilities, certifications, pay. We must not repeat job title as heading. So no

    Residential Counselor

    . We need to output only HTML fragment. Let's structure:

    About the role

    As a Residential Counselor, you will provide direct support to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in a small group residential setting or an individual living arrangement. In your role you will work together with the people we serve, their families, friends, employers, and other support staff to transform their lives by either building independence skills or increasing each person's quality of life. Established in 1977, Vinfen is a nonprofit, health and human services organization and a leading provider of community-based services to individuals with mental health conditions, intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain injuries, and behavioral health challenges. Our services and advocacy promote the recovery, resiliency, habilitation, and self-determination of the people we serve. Vinfen's 3,500 dedicated employees are experienced, highly-trained professionals who provide a full range of supportive living, health, educational, and clinical services in over 550 sites throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut. For more information about Vinfen, please visit www.vinfen.org/careers . My Job. My Community. My Vinfen. Vinfen is committed to you! We offer great training, great benefits, career growth and job security!

    But we need to avoid repeating "great benefits" maybe okay. Now Responsibilities: we need to list all duties. Let's extract from the responsibilities block. The responsibilities block starts after "Responsibilities Job Duties and Responsibilities: The essential job duties/responsibilities of the position include but are not limited to the information listed below:" then a list. We need to capture each bullet as list item. Let's copy them: - Assist individuals in the home in becoming fully integrated into their communities, and develop and maintain friendships. - Assist individuals to access community-based support and resources. - Plan recreational and social activities that promote social inclusion and the emotional well being of individuals in support of living a good life. - Empower and support individuals in the home to make choices, be a self advocate, and be fully involved in making decisions in determining the directions of their supports and lives. - Support individuals in the home with access to assistive technology and adaptive equipment as a means to augment communication, access their communities, and generally live more independently. - Supports individual in securing, maintaining and growing in work, volunteer, and other community engagement opportunities. - Support individuals in the home to be more independent, be self-advocates, and make choices that define the direction and their vision for living a good life. - Encourage and support individuals and their involved families in maintaining strong partnership with staff and other interested parties. - Provide training and support to individuals in the home. This includes rehabilitative interventions, behavioral interventions and monitoring, fire & safety regulations, appointment scheduling, money management, ADLs, grocery shopping, meal planning and cooking, household chores, use of generic resources and other related areas. - Perform hands-on tasks in the program as required in order to facilitate implementation of support plans. - Provide transportation, as necessary. - Assess the physical and emotional status of individuals in the home and report changes to supervisor. - Monitor individual funds, as needed. - Maintain records for individuals in the home. - Collect behavior and academic data and maintain progress notes. - Document all information related to incidents, programs, and routine activities in a communication log. - Procure, store, administer, document, and dispose of medication for individuals consistent with MAP requirements, funding source regulations, and Company policy. - Communicate with and provide information to interested parties such as program nurse, case managers, and Visiting Nurses Association. - Participate in all mandated training and staff meetings as directed by the supervisor. - Ensure compliance with all internal and external regulatory policies, procedures, and standards. - Ensure home safety and maintenance as necessary at all times. This includes general housekeeping, snow shoveling, and trash removal. - Comply with all corporate and divisional policies and procedures, including safe work practices, workers’ compensation, universal precautions, and exposure control. - Complete various paperwork and logs including communication logs, community membership logs, and activity schedules. - Provide shift coverage, as necessary in other homes/programs as assigned by supervisor. - Function as human rights advocate. - Provide physical intervention and/or First Aid in the event of behavior or medical emergency. - Serve as a reporter to the Disabled Persons Protections Commission. - Assist in developing, implementing and documenting treatment including ISP/PSTPs and clinical programs. - Perform other related duties, as required. We need to ensure no duplication. Some sentences are similar; we keep as is. Now Qualifications: we need to capture qualifications section. From posting: "Qualifications High school diploma or GED required. Experience working with people with developmental disabilities and/or brain injury strongly preferred. Strong time management and writing skills. All applicants must be at least 21 years of age and have a current, valid, US drivers' license for at least 6 months. Must be able to become CPR, First Aid certified within 2 weeks of employment and MAP certified within 150 days of employment. Must successfully complete Safety Care within 90 days Must be able to successfully pass a CORI, reference, national fingerprinting and driving record check." We can list as
      . Now Skills/Knowledge: There is a "Knowledge And Skills" section with many bullet points. Also "Learn Or Master The Following Areas" similar. Also "Typical Requirements". Also "Preferred /Required Education". Also "Driving Requirements". Also "Physical Effort". Also "Specific vision abilities". Also "Required Certifications". We need to decide how to group. Allowed headings: Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We already used About the role, Responsibilities. We could put Qualifications as separate heading. Then Skills heading for knowledge/skills, typical requirements, etc. Requirements maybe for things like driving requirements, physical effort, vision abilities? But we have both Qualifications and Requirements headings allowed. We could treat Qualifications as education/experience/age/license etc. Requirements as other mandatory items like driving, physical, vision, certifications. Skills as knowledge and skills. Let's parse: Qualifications (as per heading in posting): high school diploma or GED required, experience working with people with developmental disabilities and/or brain injury strongly preferred, strong time management and writing skills, age >=21, valid US driver's license for at least 6 months, CPR/First Aid within 2 weeks, MAP within 150 days, Safety Care within 90 days, pass CORI etc. But note that certifications also appear later under "Required Certifications". Might be overlapping. We'll

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