LOOKING FOR DIRECT SUPPORT CAREGIVERS. MONDAY-FRIDAY, WEEKENDS, AND OVERNIGHTS AVAILABLE.
About Us
Residential Community for Intellectually Disabled
We offer mental health, developmental disability, and Community support services to children and adults in Delaware county and the surrounding counties.
Fill out application here : https://10288.axiscare.com/?caregivers-applications.phpJob Category: Caregiver
Line of Business: Residential Services
About this Career Opportunity:
Join a team of passionate and caring people who make a difference in people's lives. We are now hiring for Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) to provide direct care to those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Our DSPs are the STARS of our organization who provide caregiving to the people we support. This may be in a group home, home-like setting.
Essential Responsibilities/Job Duties
- Ensuring residents safety and maintaining a safe environment
- Giving Meds
- Ensure consumers don't harm themselves or others.
- Engage with the consumers to enable them to lead a self-sustaining life independently.
- If you notice the consumer behavior is unusual help the consumer get on track. For instance, if the consumer felt depressed, talk to the consumer and get the consumer to communicate their feelings and why they felt the way they do.
- listen to the consumer and get them to communicate
- Play a game or talk about something that would enable them to handle their feelings in a positive fashion.
- Performing personal care tasks, including assistance with basic personal hygiene and grooming, feeding, and ambulation, medical monitoring, and health care related tasks.
- Fostering positive relationships between individuals served and their housemates
- Assisting with toileting, including bedpans, urinals, and commode chairs
- Reminding/assisting client with self-administration of medications (with proper training)
- Encouraging self-help activities
- Reporting changes in residents condition or family situation to the office
- Documenting services provided
- Performing home management functions such as light housekeeping, laundry, bed making, and cleaning
- Planning meals, shopping for groceries, preparing and serving food/meals, feeding and clean-up
- Accompanying residents to scheduled appointments
- Transporting residents or running errands for residents
- Coming up with activities that will keep residents engaged
- Other duties as assigned
Position Requirements
- High school degree/GED required
- 18 years of age or older
- Valid driver's license (in most cases)
- Ability to work in a group home, home-like settings
- Ability to communicate (verbally and written) with all levels of personnel, internal and external to the company
- Ability to handle physical aspects of job, including bending, stooping, lifting, pushing, pulling, reaching, and walking for periods of time
- Must maintain state regulatory certifications, as required by state/program requirements
- Medication Administration as required by state/program requirements
Additional Information
Benefits
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About Our Company
Join us in transforming peoples' lives and their communities! We one-of-a-kind human services company offering services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Right now, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as a Direct Support Professional - Delaware county Area.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against any person on the basis of gender, race, color, national origin, religion, disability, age, veteran status, gender identity or sexual orientation in admission, treatment, or participation in its programs, services and activities, or in employment, or on the basis of gender in its health programs and activities.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: $14.00 - $16.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid orientation
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
Schedule:
- 12 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- Weekends as needed
Education:
- High school or equivalent (Required)
License/Certification:
- CPR Certification (Preferred)
- CNA (Preferred)
Work Location: In person