Direct Support Professional (Full-Time)

Job Description

Job Description

The Direct Support Professional - position is full-time, non-exempt position. The position is responsible for oversight of individuals served in a habilitative capacity through the habilitative programs offered through the facility.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Therapeutic Interventions: Direct therapeutic interventions to promote adaptive skill learning and development of appropriate vocational, social, and communication skills.
• Documentation: Maintains documentation, progress notes, behavioral data, and other data as needed, including incident/accident reports and seizure logs.
• Participation: Participation in implementation of person-centered plan/individual support plan, goal planning process, Supports Intensity Scale, disaster drills, and planned activities.
• Assistance: Assists individuals with daily activities to include personal care and provides monitoring for health and safety of individuals.
• Supervision: Responds to individual safety needs, including reporting significant changes in behavior and health. Attend staff meetings and clinical supervisions, as required.
• Teamwork: Function independently as part of a larger team of professionals. Maintain team mindset through being collaborative, cooperative, and respectful.
• Confidentiality: Complies with agency polies and procedures in relation to HIPPA regulations.
• Communication: Communicates with other staff and supervisor on progress, needs, concerns and changes.
• Customer Service: Provide high quality customer service, serving as a positive representative for the agency with other professionals, families, and the community at large.
• Additional Duties: All other duties as assigned and required by supervisor to meet the needs of the individuals and program.

COMPETENCIES:

• Adaptability: Demonstrate a willingness to be flexible, versatile and/or tolerant in a changing work environment while maintaining effectiveness and efficiency.
• Communicate Effectively: Speak, listen and write in a clear, thorough and timely manner using appropriate and effective communication tools and techniques .
• Focus on Client Needs: Anticipate, understand, and respond to internal and external threats to client services.
• Foster Teamwork: Work cooperatively and effectively with others.
• Solve Problems: Assess problem situations to identify causes, gather and process relevant information, generate possible solutions, and make recommendations and/or resolve the problem.
• Good attendance : Adhere to UDI’s attendance policies and procedures and have a good and consistent attendance record.
• Punctual: Consistently be at their workstations and ready to work by the start of their assigned shifts. UDI’s normal working hours are from 8:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. – Monday through Friday.  Other hours and days as assigned based on company needed and program requirements.
• Dependable: Consistently follow through with assignments in a timely and effective manner.
• Service Line: Knowledgeable about service line and variations in service delivery. Familiar with staff to individual ratio and hours of services needed to maintain individual services based on service definitions.
• Self-motivated: Consistently deliver results with little or no direction from their supervisors or administration.
• Safety: Consistently perform their jobs in a manner that puts safety first for themselves, co-workers, and clients with no accidents or incidents (inclusive of property damage or near misses).

WORK ENVIRONMENT

This job requires physical effort and operates in an environment that will include heat, cold, dust, loud noises, and moving equipment. Aspects of the positions may include transportation, community outings, and/or home settings for individuals served. Job may require you to work under the following conditions:

• Sit for long periods of time
• Stand for long periods of time
• Lifting at least 25lbs, pushing, pulling, bending, and/or squatting
• Potential exposure to aggressive behaviors inclusive of physical and verbal aggression
• Clothing may get dirty and/or torn
• Possibility of cuts, scrapes, bruises, burns etc., related to contract work and rehab activities

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Efficiently speak, read, and write in English
• Must be able to handle physical demands of the job
• Must be able to pass all employment screenings
• Must have a valid driver’s license and meet requirements for insurability by UDI’s insurance company.
  
• Documented experience with the population served, preferred
• Four-year college degree (preferred) in a human service field and a demonstrated knowledge of appropriate treatment modalities with at least one year of experience in direct service delivery to adults with Developmental Disabilities; or a two-year degree in a human service field which includes a practicum with a similar population served and at least 2 years of experience with population served; or high school diploma/GED (required). Degrees must be from an USDE recognized accredited college or university.
• Additional qualifications preferred

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UDI is an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.