Direct Support Professional

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Direct Support Professional Salary: 10.00/ hourly

Agency: Convenient Care Home Health Reports To: Agency Director

Date Posted: 1/11/2021

To perform this job successfully each candidate must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential duty listed below. Reasonable accommodations will be made will for disable persons covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act, in accordance with its requirements.

Job Summary

• Cares for elderly, disable, convalescent, or handicapped at individuals homes or day-time residence

General Responsibilities

• Read, understand, and Implement individual support as written.
• Provides assistance and support to individual(s) in activities of daily living
• Teach appropriate skills and involve individual(s) in activities supported in meaningful and valued activities
• Provides and seeks out opportunities for individual(s) supported to make good choices
• Obtain knowledge of individual(s) supported desired outcomes and works to ensure they are integrated into daily activities
• Incorporates time, space, and opportunity for privacy in the lives of individuals supported
• Assist with purchasing groceries and preparing meals for the individual
• Administer oral medication written in ISP and MAR (Must Be Level 1 Medication Administration Certified)
• Visit several households to provide similar daily care
• Complete daily documentation logs, charts, and billing sheets

*This company reserves the right to add or change duties at any time*

Equipment Operated

• Will be handling standard housing appliance and electronics. As well as wheel chairs, walkers, etc.

Qualifications

• Must be 18 years old or older
• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Ability and willingness to support individual(s) with disabilities and/or challenging behaviors

Confidential Data

• Must maintain strict confidentiality of all personal information concerning individual(s) supported.
• Must know, advocate, and respect the rights of individual(s) supported
• Maintains confidentiality of records/information according to HIPAA, State, Federal Laws and Guidelines.

Usual Physical Demands

• Must occasionally lift and/or move the individual(s) supported and/or up to 15 pounds

*Resumes can be emailed to [email protected]*