Program Instructor

Program Instructor

Sunnycrest Manor

1 Positions

ID: 2024-00058

Posted On 01/13/2025

Refreshed On 07/03/2026

Job Overview

Description

Performs intermediate human support service for Sunnycrest residents.

Job Duties

• Provides personal care, instruction and training to residents and clients.

• Prepares clients for school, work, and daily activities.

• Teaches adult living skills including bathing, dressing toileting, grooming and personal hygiene.

• Assists clients into and out of beds, wheel chairs, and vehicles.

• Teaches behavioral skills and protects clients from harm and self-abuse.

• Controls clients utilizing verbal redirection, mechanical and physical restraints.

• Provides occupation and daily living therapy to assist clients to adopt to their environment.

• Teaches and demonstrates proper manners, eating skills, and maintenance activities.

• Provides physical therapy and exercise programs.

• Assists with communication skills based on needs utilizing sign language and appropriate verbalization.

• Teaches money skills, escorts clients to recreational, leisure, shopping or other trips.

• Escorts clients to doctor's appointments and/or hospital.

• Maintains detailed records and charts on client activities and results and physical matters.

• Performs general housekeeping, laundry and meal duties pertaining to client programs as required.

• Follows proscribed protocols for safety and infection control.

• Performs related tasks as required.

Minimum Qualifications

High school diploma or GED.

Must satisfactorily compete Program Instructor and Crisis Prevention Intervention training course within six months of employment.

Must pass the prescribed pre-employment physical, abuse registry review, and criminal background check.

Experience in the custodial care of patients preferred.

Other Requirements: Must be authorized to work in the United States. Dubuque County does not sponsor work visas or provide immigration sponsorship.

Supplemental Information

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

General knowledge of:

MH/MR care and nursing practices and procedures.

Theory and practice of quality patient care.

Basic knowledge of:

Common physical and mental illnesses, their symptoms and appropriate medical care.

Human anatomy as related to treatments and therapies.

First aid methods.

Ability to:

Observe, recognize and respond to behavioral problems and take appropriate action.

Follow oral and written instructions of a technical nature.

Deal with clients empathetically and respectfully.

Prepare, maintain, and understand nursing records and reports.

Establish and maintain effective working relationships with residents, families, other employees, officials and the general public.

Physical, Mental, and Environmental Requirements:

Vision abilities required by this job including close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Effective verbal speaking and hearing abilities are needed to handle communications with staff, residents, and others.

Requires pushing, pulling, and lifting up to 25 pounds regularly and up to 50 pounds occasionally with assistance.

Requires standing most of the time to perform work responsibilities with regular walking between locations.

Requires ability to walk steps, reaching, squatting, stooping, bending, and sitting, pushing, pulling, twisting, gripping and apply physical intervention holds.

Some exposure to slippery surfaces when floors are wet.

Exposure to chemicals from cleaning compounds and exposure to bodily fluids require the use of personal protective equipment to safe guard against potential biological and chemical hazards.

Work is primarily indoors.

Occasional exposure to outside weather conditions and some outdoor work.

Primary Contact

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Job Details

Categories

Government/Public Service

Location

Dubuque, IA

Job Type

Employee

Full/Part

Part Time

Pay/Salary

$18.46 - $23.12 Hourly

Company ID

1265

Job REQ #

2024-00058

# Positions

1

Start Date

20250113

End Date

20260809

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Sunnycrest Manor

About the Company

Home is where the heart is and the resident is at the heart of our home.

Sunnycrest Manor is a long-term care facility overlooking the Mississippi River on the bluffs of Dubuque, Iowa. It is supported by the citizens of Dubuque County and serves residents with financial need who require the assistance of a Nursing Facility (NF), Skilled (SNF), or Intermediate Care Facility for the Intellectually Disabled (ICF/ID) levels of care.