Recreation Direct Support Professional

Job Description

Job Description

Summary:

• Direct Support Professionals perform various person-centered supports and services, emphasizing personal choice for individuals with developmental disabilities. These supports and services include advocating for, encouraging, guiding, and teaching individuals to express personal choice, developing daily living skills and habits, taking care of their personal needs, assuring community integration, ensuring their health and safety, and maintaining a healthy, safe home environment. The supports and services performed depend upon the specific needs and abilities of each student and the nature of the setting where the activities are performed.
• Working as a critical member of a staff team managed by the Hall Supervisor and led by Department leaders, the DSP is an inclusive motivator, empathetic caregiver, capable mentor, and engaging activity facilitator to every student at SAIL. The DSP is a connected, respectful, selfless, and approachable team player, intrinsically driven to help others achieve the highest personal fulfillment, enjoyment, and functional independence possible.
• The DSP provides direct care in all facets of daily living, assists and inspires individuals through guided practice to develop improved skills in their activities of daily living, and helps every learner to acquire and develop the vocational, nutritional, social, communicative, and self-management skills necessary to achieve the highest possible level of independence in life, in the least restrictive environment.

 

Rate of Pay $19.50 per hour

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Direct Support Professional staff provide physical and cognitive support to individuals with developmental disabilities to help them lead better lives. In accordance with Individualized Program Plans (IPP), DSPs guide and teach individuals to safely live the lives they choose to live. Incumbents perform and/or take a lead role in one or more of the following duties within a work site:
• Residential DSP– Evening Shift: (3:00PM-8:00PM)
• Assist individuals to transition from school bus/van into assigned hall after school
• Review evening staff assignment and obtain report since last worked
• Assist individuals with personal hygiene, as needed
• Perform IPP PBIS goals according to plans and prescribed steps for each skill being learned
• Set up, actively participate in, and motivate student engagement in activities for active treatment, i.e., puzzles, board games, coloring, playground etc.
• Follow mealtime schedule for designated hall and promote independence by encouraging individuals to eat safely and independently, and clean up after meal time
• Accompany individuals to participate in community inclusion as scheduled
• Prepare for snack in dining room and sanitize when completed
• Reinforce and maintain required levels of supervision
• Accurately complete BM book, food log, and complete forms in the intervention binder prior to end of shift as required
• Prepare for end of shift and transfer of responsibilities to incoming shift, whom arrive at 8:00PM. Remain in assigned location until relieved by incoming staff and/or Supervisor (never leaving an assigned location or individual/group unattended).