Part-Time Community Support Staff

Part-Time Community Support Staff

Premiere Behavioral Supports is currently seeking a part-time community support staff to work 20 hours per week in varied locations throughout Cumberland County.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Provide support to developmentally disabled adults with challenges such as interpersonal relationships, social interaction, and communication skills in developing adaptive and practical coping skills and realizing educational and vocational goals.
• Provide one on one skill-building intervention for adults
• Build rapport with adults with a developmental disability
• Complete all necessary documentation.
• Contribute, implement, and incorporate community-based activities and programs
• Ability to communicate with adults with a developmental disability openly and without judgment
• Ability to establish a relationship based on shared responsibility and respect
• Provide interest in needs and concerns of persons with internal and external barriers to achieve success
• Sensitivity to persons of different educational, economic, cultural, or racial backgrounds
• Practical problem-solving skills and the ability to suggest options and alternatives
• Provide support to the client through an ongoing one-to-one
• Serve as a positive role
• Assist clients with setting goals to achieve academic and personal success.
• Build self-esteem and motivation in the client
• Complete all required training by the due date

Preferred Skills:

• CPR/First Aid certified

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $23.10 per hour

Schedule: Saturdays 9:00am - 5:00pm

Experience:

• Behavior management: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: Atco, NJ

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

• Education: You must have a high school diploma/GED or higher education degree
• Experience: You must have six months of previous professional work experience with a person with a developmental disability.
• All positions require a valid driver's license in good standing (under 5 points), valid car insurance, and pre-employment drug screening. All candidates, if hired, will be expected to cooperate with Premier Behavioral Supports and The Department of Human Services in all inspections and investigations.

Premiere Behavioral Supports considers applicants for all positions without regard to race; color; religion; sex; national origin; age; sexual orientation; marital or veteran status; the presence of a medical condition, genetic information, or handicap, unrelated to performing the tasks of the job; or any other legally protected status.