Direct Care Specialist (Classroom)

Direct Care Specialist (Classroom)

Agency: 805 DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION SERVICES

Supervisory Organization: Full time

Compensation: Monthly Salary Range: Monthly Annual Level I (Pay band E) $2,471.84 $29,662.08

Job Description

Basic Purpose: Positions in this job family are involved in providing direct care and supervision to clients with developmental or other disabilities. This includes basic health care and assistance with health care needs, assisting clients with life skills, including living, vocational, recreational, and educational skills, reviewing treatment plans for appropriateness, and supervising implementation of care and treatment plans. Other positions are assigned responsibilities involving paraprofessional guidance and instructional work in an institution, shelter, group home, or school. Some positions may provide assistance to teachers in a classroom setting.

Typical Functions

Performs routine duties in the care, custody, education, and treatment of developmentally disabled clients, youth or children residing in an institution, shelter, group home, or school.

Responds to emergencies affecting individuals, including administering CPR and using approved intervention techniques.

Provides paraprofessional guidance and counseling to clients to help find solutions to their personal problems, including problems of separation and adjustment to group living, and to develop personal values and goals; directs their daily activities, maintains order, and provides support.

Serves on a treatment team to review resident's progress, treatment, and educational plans; reports on activities, programs, and attendance

Provides active treatment programming to clients in life skills; controls movement of residents to and from living quarters for activities and off-campus appointments.

Ensures cleanliness of facilities through inspections, reports and adherence to safety standards.

Lifts individuals to and from wheelchairs, floor mats, baths or beds; off may perform nonprofessional nursing aide duties; serves as a certified medication aide.

Supervises residents to and from facility for activities and off-campus appointments, in instructional settings, and during non-instructional activities such as recess, meal periods, assemblies, etc.

Assists teaching staff in classroom with instruction and activities for individuals or for groups as assigned.

Performs various clerical duties as needed, types and makes copies, orders supplies, etc.; sorts and files records; assists with maintenance of records and reports of attendance, activities and grades; maintains and operates audiovisual equipment.

Level Descriptor

This is the basic level of this job family where employees are responsible for performing routine entry level work in a training status to build their skills in providing resident supervision and direct care and in managing, observing, and recording behavior of clients/residents. In this role, they will attend orientation and training to learn policy, practices, and procedures, provide assistance in basic self care and socialization, and use approved intervention techniques, observation, recording and reporting of appropriate information to facilitate this process. Some positions may provide assistance to teachers in a classroom setting.

Education and Experience

Education and Experience: High school diploma or equivalent.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Competencies

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities required at this level include knowledge of basic human physical and psychological needs; of simple health and safety precautions and basic first aid methods; of the format used to prepare daily progress and behavior reports; and of crisis intervention techniques. Ability is required to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing; to interact with children or clients with developmental disabilities; to read and comprehend training manuals; to follow written and oral instructions; to carry out the physical requirements to assist in lifting individuals, as necessary; and to exercise mature judgment in appraising a situation and adopting an effective course of action.

Special Requirements

Some positions may require that applicants be physically able to lift up to 50 pounds. Applicants must be willing and able to work overtime and work on shifts. Some positions may require that applicants be willing and able to perform job-related travel.

Some Oklahoma Department of Human Services and Department of Rehabilitation Services positions may require applicants possess a valid driver's license and be willing to transport clients. Some position may require experience with children or adults in a treatment facility for disabled individuals. Positions in the Department of Rehabilitation Services require completion of paraprofessional training/certification for levels II and above. Some Department of Rehabilitation Services positions require proficiency in American Sign Language.

Some agencies may have determined positions in this job family to be safety sensitive as defined by 63 O.S. 427.8.

Additional Job Description

Position is located at Oklahoma School for the Deaf (OSD) in Sulphur.

Essential Functions: Position is responsible for providing assistance to students in a group setting or on a one-on-one basis. Includes assisting teaching staff with special instructions; supervising playground/extracurricular activities, and chaperone on bus during home going trips and returning to school.

Applicant must be willing to perform all job-related travel.

Trial period (if applicable) is required.

Background Check: The Department of Rehabilitation Services will conduct a criminal background check on new hires as part of an offer of employment that is made contingent upon a successful criminal background check.

Preferred Qualifications: American Sign Language Skills.

Method of Application: Applicants without previous state service, with previous state service but not currently employed by a state agency must apply though the Workday on-line External Listings applicant system (State of Oklahoma Careers (myworkdayjobs.com)).

Current State of Oklahoma employees must apply through the Workday on-line Internal Listings applicant system (Find Jobs - Internal State of Oklahoma - Workday (myworkday.com))

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Equal Opportunity Employment

The State of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of genetic information, race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or disability.