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About the Role

Direct Support Professionals work as part of an interdisciplinary team providing services to adults with intellectual/developmental disabilities. The mission is to help individuals live happy, healthy, and fulfilling lives, while ensuring staff can do the same. This role involves assisting with daily living activities, developing independent living skills, and providing advocacy.

Responsibilities

• Provide assistance with activities of daily living, including personal care, meal preparation, medication administration, and health maintenance.
• Support individuals with developing independent living skills, including money management, community integration, and social skills.
• Encourage and provide advocacy for individuals.
• Provide Residential Habilitation and Day Habilitation services in various settings.
• Ensure the health and safety of individuals, maintaining staffing ratios.
• Assist individuals with achieving desired personal outcomes.
• Support individuals in achieving optimal health, including medical appointments and medication administration.
• Ensure routine household maintenance is completed, including meal preparation, cleaning, and laundry.
• Support individuals with all personal care needs.
• Help individuals develop skills to increase independence.
• Serve as a role model, demonstrating appropriate social interactions and implementing crisis intervention techniques.
• Complete documentation and safety checks.
• Provide transportation for individuals to various sites.
• Perform other duties as needed or assigned.

Requirements

• Demonstrate all skills and attributes outlined in the NYS DSP Core Competencies.
• Ability to work in a diverse and inclusive environment with individuals of various abilities.
• Complete all mandatory trainings within the first 90 days and maintain ongoing recertifications.
• Professionally and effectively communicate both verbally and in writing.
• Understand regulations and document services in real-time utilizing electronic technology.
• Ability to multitask and prioritize job responsibilities.
• Respond timely and effectively to emergency and crisis situations.
• Be proactive to identify, report, and resolve safety/medical concerns.
• Ability to accurately count money and complete basic math and banking transactions.
• Complete training to become an approved medication administration professional (AMAP) certified and accurately administer medications.
• Participate in team meetings and service plan meetings as necessary.
• Provide person-centered, culturally competent services.
• Provide continuous care and maintain approved staffing ratios at all times, including weekends and holidays.
• Ability to access reliable transportation.
• Maintain a valid, unrestricted, insurable driver's license.
• Must be capable of performing all SCIP Interventions.
• Able to provide hands-on care to individuals with various physical disabilities.
• Ability to perform various household cleaning tasks.
• Occasional lifting of 25+ pounds, occasional pushing/pulling of 25+ pounds, and occasional reaching and bending.
• Ability to ascend and descend stairs.
• Ability to participate in light to moderate physical activities.
• Ability to utilize various electronic devices.
• Provide transportation utilizing vehicles ranging in size from sedans to large passenger vans.
• Exposure to pets may be required at certain sites.

Skills

• Communication (verbal and written)
• Documentation
• Electronic technology utilization
• Multitasking
• Prioritization
• Timely response
• Proactive problem-solving
• Money counting
• Basic math
• Banking transactions
• Medication administration
• Teamwork
• Person-centered care
• Cultural competence
• SCIP Interventions
• Hands-on care
• Household cleaning
• Lifting
• Pushing/pulling
• Reaching
• Bending
• Ascending/descending stairs
• Physical activity
• Electronic device utilization
• Transportation
• Bilingual English and Spanish speaking (plus)
• Fluent in American Sign Language (plus)

Location

• Middletown, NY

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Six-months of professional direct care experience or real-life experience caring for others preferred
• One-year customer service experience

Salary/Compensations

• $17.50 per hour

About the Company

• Access values connection, accountability, and real impact.
• The company's Culture Playbook guides how staff show up for each other and the people they support.
• The team is clear about expectations, supportive, accountable, and focused on outcomes that matter to people.
• The company is committed to helping people live the healthiest and fullest lives possible, while ensuring staff can do the same.

Equal Opportunity

• An Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and Veterans.