Training Counselor/DSP

About the role

The Direct Support Person (DSP) is responsible for providing direct services for adults who reside at Ada S. McKinley Community Day Services. The DSP assists individuals with daily life skills, personal tasks, and programming; completes documentation of each person’s progress through written objectives; implements and documents each person’s progress toward formal and informal goals and objectives as outlined in each person’s individual service plan (ISP); assists with daily life skills such as technology, financial and reading skills; and implements community integration among individuals.

Responsibilities

• Implements training programs designed to increase person served independence, personal care, fine and gross motor, communication, community orientation, perceptual/cognitive, and social skills.
• Establishes a secure, positive environment that nurtures person served needs, self‑expression, and goals.
• Sets up jobs and/or training situations.
• Assists in determining simplified work/training methods to meet specific person served needs.
• Facilitates person served inclusion in the community’s experiences and activities.
• Assists person served in increasing productivity, meeting quality control standards, and promoting appropriate working behaviors toward rehabilitation/habilitation goals.
• Maintains accurate attendance, production, training, chronological, and progress reports on assigned person served.

Requirements

• High school diploma or general education equivalent.
• Must be 18+ years old.
• Requires 6 months of DSP / CNA / Caregiver experience with an interest in working with disabled individuals.
• Demonstrates experiences, beliefs, attitude, and awareness indicating cultural sensitivity to the client population served.
• Ability to partner with clients individually and/or in family to help them mobilize resources and build resilience.
• Ability to coordinate effectively with other team members, other Agency resources, and outside services in addressing client needs.
• Understanding of evidence‑informed practices, engagement strategies, boundary setting, concurrent documentation, working in a community setting, organizing, motivational interviewing, and family systems.
• Physical requirements: subject to sitting, walking, and standing for prolonged periods; frequently pushes, pulls, grasps, feels, and occasionally stoops, kneels, crouches, or crawls; frequently required to use manual and finger dexterity and eye‑hand coordination when working with persons served and handling office, medical, or household equipment; required to assist and lift up to 50 pounds with varying assistance on a recurring basis; corrected vision and hearing within normal range and ability to operate a motor vehicle; ability to perform CPR and CPI; occupational exposure to blood, body fluids, and infectious substances, including communicable diseases, when performing personal care (Category III); occasional exposure to cleaning agents and disinfectants.
• Work environment: occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions; noise level usually loud.

Benefits

• Paid vacation
• Paid sick time
• 12 paid holidays
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 403(b) plan
• Life insurance
• Long‑term & short‑term disability
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
• Family medical leave
• Tuition reimbursement

Benefit options and eligibility vary by full‑time and part‑time positions.

Pay

Compensation: $20.46 hourly.

Compensation within the posted salary range varies based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, and performance at the time of the offer.