The Direct Support Professional I partners with a team of skilled professionals and families to provide services that are family-driven, youth-guided, trauma-informed, and culturally competent to help youth reach their full potential. This role creates a safe, nurturing, and peaceful environment that provides opportunities for the successful development of life skills and social skills for youth and families receiving services.
Requirements
- Provide supervision and care to the individuals they serve, assisting with their daily living skills according to established program standards and follow all applicable safety and mandated reporting protocols.
- Develop, implement, monitor, and report on treatment objectives and modalities that are utilized to support the individuals' goals.
- Assess the effectiveness of individual care plans (e.g., behavior, safety, treatment, and routine support plan).
- Build professional relationships with peers that support individual development and success.
- Provide purposeful activities, based on the individual’s current developmental level that foster skill development to help them prepare for transitions and interactions in the community.
- Monitor participating individual’s emotional and behavior status and document accordingly.
- Partner with the family-driven treatment team to ensure all decisions are made in the best interest of the youth.
- Complete all required documentation according to established policies and regulations.
- Follow established procedures for passing/administering medications to individuals receiving services.
- Maintain daily communication with appropriate staff to ensure relevant behaviors and/or concerns are shared in order to support client needs.
- Recognize escalated youth behavior and effectively apply the continuum of crisis prevention and intervention through verbal and non-verbal de-escalation skills to reduce risk, which may include the use of protective interventions and physical restraints.
- Promote participant learning through reflective practice in collaboration with the treatment team to ensure lasting outcomes.
- Execute a wide variety of support tasks, including transporting for medical appointments, various housekeeping duties, administration of medication and managing petty cash.
- Execute staff training initiatives.
- Transport youth as required.
- While this job description covers many aspects of the role, employees may be required to perform other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Comprehensive Medical Coverage
- Dental and Vision Coverage
- Flexible Spending Account
- 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan with Employer Match
- Employee Assistance Plan
