Direct Support Professional 1:1 -Day Programs

Job Description

Job Description

Our Mission and Vision:

The mission of United Cerebral Palsy of Georgia is to positively support and impact the achievement of a Life Without Limits for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

UCP of Georgia’s vision is to create a community in which every person, regardless of ability, can participate as an equal citizen. To realize this vision, UCP of Georgia offers supports designed to help people maximize their potential and achieve independent, productive, and rewarding lives.  

Job Summary: Support, teach and assist adults who have developmental and intellectual disabilities in a 1:1 setting as needed. 

Supervisory Responsibilities: none

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Provides direct assistance, within arm’s reach, in self-help, socialization, and adaptive skills training, retention, and improvement to individual participants and group participants.

• Provides direct assistance in engagement with teaching such concepts as rule compliance, attendance, task completion, problem solving endurance, work speed, work accuracy, increased attention span, motor skills, and safety.

• Provides direct assistance in training, retraining, or improving the access to and use of community resources by individual participants.

• Provides participant specific assistance such as personal care, and self-administration of medication, and behavior supports for participant enrolled in program services.    (Examples: feeding, toileting, lifting and transferring)

• Implements behavioral support plan of participant to reduce inappropriate and maladaptive behaviors and assist with acquiring appropriate adaptive skills and behaviors.  

• Provides active support and direct assistance in participation in community social, recreational and leisure activities.

• Maintain work area – cleaning tables, chairs, and supplies daily/weekly as scheduled. Assures supplies are kept organized and in working order.  Return supplies to designated area daily.

• Provides transportation as needed for participants to community access activities.

• Complete all required documentation such as (progress notes, goal tracking   sheets, HRST tracking sheets, seizure tracking, positing tracking, communication logs, activity calendars, production tracking, etc .) Assure all paperwork is submitted on time.

• Ensure that the environment, pace of activities, and type of activities are ISP (Individual Service Plan) directed or participant directed. Physically participate   with program participants in all activities.

• Assist in ensuring that all support services as well as site remains in compliance with all internal and external policies. Compiles with agency policies and procedures to ensure confidentiality of individual’s information both written and spoken.

• Maintain a positive and productive environment for participants, respecting consumer’s rights, and reporting suspected abuse, neglect, and exploitation of any individual.

• Adhere to all Human Resources Data Collection and Training requirements. Attends all assigned departmental and program specific Development Meetings.

• Develop and maintain positive and productive relationships with consumers, families, co- workers, and community members.

• Support program participants in their personal growth and development respecting cultural, ethnic, spiritual, and individual differences.

• Adhere to all agency policies and procedures.

• Other duties as assigned.