Day Program Professional - La Plume/Tunkhannock

Day Program Professional Position Description

The Day Program Professional is responsible for ensuring individuals have engaging and person-centered experiences that promote independence, community integration, and overall well-being.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Always be compliant with all company and regulatory policies and procedures.
• Implement daily activity schedules including community outings, events, and in-house programming (arts, crafts, music, sensory activities).
• Promote community awareness and inclusion through responsible, courteous behavior.
• Ensure health and safety of individuals during program hours, transportation, and community activities.
• Provide personal care and support as needed.
• Assist individuals with personal finances, maintaining accurate documentation.
• Complete and submit incident reports per policy.
• Utilize crisis prevention and intervention strategies, using restrictive procedures only as a last resort.
• Participate in interdisciplinary planning and carry out goals from individual service plans.
• Attend staff meetings and complete required annual training.
• Travel to other program locations as needed.

Team member expectations include:

• Must be compliant with company and regulatory policies and procedures.
• Preserve and protect the privacy, confidentiality, and security of all medical records, proprietary, and other confidential information relating to Beacon Specialized Living, its Individuals, Team Members, activities, and affiliates, in accordance with all applicable laws (especially HIPAA) and contract terms.
• Promote Beacon in a positive manner and lead by example, modeling our core values in everyday behavior.
• Monitors and corrects employee gossip, harassment, favoritism, and other negative social workplace behaviors to ensure a positive and productive work environment.
• Understand how to approach and communicate with everyone at all levels.
• Treat everyone with dignity and respect while responding to their needs.
• Maintain and sustain a safe community environment and workplace.
• Apply trauma-informed care principles recognizing the presence of trauma symptoms and acknowledging the role trauma may play in an individual's life.
• Promote trauma-informed care at all levels of the organization and help create a culture that is sensitive to the feelings of our Individuals and avoid responding negatively to stigmas that they will never truly understand.
• Follow Beacon's policies, procedures, and manuals.
• Cooperate with Beacon Specialized Living, the Department of Human Services (DHS) staff, or any other regulatory body during any inspection, investigation, or inquiry.
• Accept other duties as assigned.

In addition to evaluating your work performance, you will be evaluated for the following work behaviors:

• Job Knowledge: Depth and breadth of knowledge supporting our organization goals.
• Quality of Work: Freedom from errors and mistakes, timeliness. Accuracy, quality of work in general.
• Quantity of Work: Work output of the employee.
• Reliability: The extent to which the employee can be dependent upon to be available for work, do it properly, and complete it on time. The degree to which the employee is reliable, trustworthy, and persistent.
• Initiative and Creativity: The ability to plan work and to go ahead with a task without being told every detail and the ability to make constructive suggestions.
• Judgment: The extent to which the employee makes decisions which are sound. Ability to base decisions on fact rather than emotion.
• Cooperation: Willingness to work harmoniously with others in getting a job done. Readiness to respond positively to instructions and procedures.
• Compliance: Always be compliant with all company and regulatory policies and procedures.
• Attendance: Faithfulness in coming to work daily and conforming to scheduled work hours.
• Planning and Organizing: The ability to analyze work, set goals, develop plans of action, utilize time, and delegate work as appropriate. Consider the amount of supervision required and the extent to which you can trust employees to carry out assignments conscientiously.
• Directing and Controlling: The ability to create a motivating climate, achieve teamwork, train, and develop, measure work in progress, and take corrective action.
• Decision Making: The ability to make decisions and the quality and timeliness of those decisions.
• Problem Solving: The ability to assess a problem, identify options or solutions, formulate a plan, execute the plan, and achieve and sustain positive outcomes.
• Embrace, support, and manage the business in accordance with Beacon's Mission and Core Values.

Education and qualifications include:

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Must pass criminal background check.
• Must possess a valid Driver's License.
• Proficient in speaking, reading, and writing the English language.
• Approved by state, federal, and government entities to work within BSLS programs.
• Ability to use office equipment, including BSLS information technology systems.

Skills and abilities include:

• Must be able to communicate and function in an interdisciplinary team.
• Lift and transfer up to 50 lbs. using proper body mechanics (6–12 times hourly)
• Carry 50 lbs. for at least 20 feet
• Climb and descend stairs carrying weight
• Bend, crouch, kneel, and change direction frequently
• Run 100 ft (1–2 times hourly)
• Walk up to one mile
• Drive for up to one hour (3–6 times daily)
• Stand and sit for extended periods
• Push/pull 10 lbs and grasp objects
• Maintain 20/40 vision (with or without correction)
• Hear normal speech (with or without assistance)
• Remain awake and alert for entire shift
• A professional demeanor
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task
• Ability to work with little daily supervision

Work environment includes:

• Day program sites with work, craft, and office areas
• Community locations (parks, libraries, malls, theaters, etc.)
• Exposure to bodily fluids and personal care tasks
• Work during inclement weather and potential overtime

Physical demands include:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets, and bend or stand on a stool as necessary.

Other duties may change at any time with or without notice.

It is the policy of Beacon to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, Beacon will provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities.