Direct Support Professional

Company: Helping Celebrate Abilities
Location: Binghamton
Posted on: August 6, 2022

Job Description:

Job DescriptionPosition Overview:Are you looking for an exciting career where you can make a difference while making bank? HCA has an opportunity for you with updated rates and increased job flexibility!$1500 Commitment Bonus$2.00 per hour Weekend DifferentialFlexible scheduling, with Full-Time, Part-Time, and Substitute hours available for all shiftsUnder direct supervision care for the developmentally disabled. No experience required with paid on the job training.These tasks involve encouraging, guiding and training individuals in developing daily living skills and habits, taking care of their personal needs, and maintaining their living environment. Must maintain all required training, including Medication Dispensing, CPR, and First Aid certification. Essential Duties and Responsibilities:Personal Care:Performs/teaches and reinforces accepted infection control and personal grooming techniques; performs/teaches and assists in bathing, toileting, dental care, hair and nail care, personal hygiene and grooming routines as necessary.Performs/teaches and assists individuals in dressing, clothing selection, storage, laundering and repair of clothing and accessories, may help them shop for clothing.Performs/teaches and assists in proper use and care of shavers and razors, eyeglasses, hearing aids, prosthesis as prescribed by appropriate medical practitioner.Administers and teaches individuals first aid treatments; administers cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques, and performs other health related techniques as required.Takes records, reports temperatures, blood pressures, pulse rate, weight, and other significant symptoms/health related occurrences; aides consumer in understanding, recording, reporting such factors.Maintains confidentiality of information.Reports unusual incidents and physical symptoms promptly and accurately to the supervisor.Applies valid and accepted limits for inappropriate behavior.As per written behavior plan or emergency situation, helps individuals to gain control in situations that the consumer is causing harm to themselves, others, or their environment, or a credible threat of the above, utilizing approved SCIP-R techniques.Administers prescribed medications and treatments; teaches, observes, reports problems and progress in self-administration of medication programs. Assists individuals in achieving more independence in administration of medications. Teaches use of skin care lotions, topical ointment, eye and ear drops and assists in their use as needed.Accompanies individuals to medical, dental, and other pharmacy, takes medications to home site and logs same; instructs and observes individuals in use of these substances.Food Preparation, Mealtimes:Assists individuals in eating who cannot feed themselves independently, teaches them to eat in a family-style setting, while promoting choice.Teaches and assists individuals to plan, shop, store, prepare and serve meals using currently accepted nutritional standard to clean kitchen and dining areas, and dispose of leftover food safely.Maintaining the Environment:Performs/teaches developmentally disabled individuals routine housekeeping duties such as dusting, washing floors and walls, cleaning bathrooms, and vacuuming rugs.Assists consumer in keeping room neat and orderly.Follows safety procedures in living unit and surrounding grounds, by mopping up spills, reporting unsafe condition, teaches and reinforces fire safety procedures. Checks to see that fire exits are clear, night-lights on, windows are locked and other security measures, checks fire equipment and reports malfunction.Performs minor routine maintenance tasks such as changing light bulbs, fuses, etc.May assist as directed in various household inventories.Individual Development and Personal Interests:Teaches and reinforces use of a variety of communication skills.Teaches and reinforces principles of human growth and development, including human sexuality, as determined by each persons developmental level.Teaches acceptable work habits (e.g. punctuality, dress and grooming), to enable individuals to develop readiness for work/school outside the home, or in support of individuals vocational, provocation or other work/volunteer experiences.Transports/arranges for transport of individuals to community events, accompany consumer to dances, camping trips, swimming, or other age appropriate leisure activities.Teaches money management principles to consumer, completes/aids in completion of banking activities; ensures accurate recording of personal expenditures.Helps consumer to develop/maintain positive interpersonal relationships with their fellow residents, with others in the families, and with others in the community. Aids in explaining feelings, resolving conflicts, teaching/reinforcing acceptable means of handling frustration and anger.Teaches/supervises/participates in a variety of leisure and recreational activities, craft projects, seasonal and permanent home decoration; assists in planning/supervision of family days and holiday celebrations as selected by the consumers, their families and staff.Aides in selection, care and use of age appropriate personal leisure time belongings.Interdisciplinary Treatment Team Member:Actively participates at staff meetings by communicating observations concerning progress and reaction to various therapy programs.Attend staff meeting, may suggest alternative programs or procedures based on experience with the individuals habilitation plan.Record Daily Residential Habilitation, Incident Behavioral and other required documentation.Performs other duties as assignedCompany DescriptionHCA's mission is to develop, establish and maintain multidisciplinary diagnostic and treatment services for developmentally and physically disabled persons and their families; plan and implement individualized programs designed to increase to the greatest possible degree the individuals physical, social, intellectual, and emotional abilities; and enable developmentally disabled persons to remain in the community, develop to their fullest potential, and become independent functional members of society.

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