Direct Support Professional

SpringPath Mental Health Services Job Description

SpringPath Mental Health Services, a part of the Sevita family, believes everyone deserves the opportunity to live a full, meaningful life. Our compassionate team supports individuals with emotional, behavioral, and other mental health challenges build the skills they need to thrive. With a person-centered approach, we provide residential, outpatient, and community-based services to help people navigate life and get the most out of each day.

Summary

The ILS Overnight Coach works as part of an Intensive Residential Treatment Services team that provides care, treatment and rehabilitation for persons served who are experiencing significant mental health/psychiatric symptoms; who are demonstrating significant functional impairments; and who may have co-occurring disorders. This is an awake position.

Essential Job Functions

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential function listed below.

• Provide assistance to person(s) served in order to promote their physical, social, and psychological well-being.
• Interact frequently and positively with person(s) served and support staff to promote the rights of the person(s) served to achieve an enhanced quality of life.
• Assist Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioners with requested needs.
• Follow agency procedures to promote optimum health care, safety practice and behavioral supports to maintain the well-being of person(s) served.
• Administrative duties (scanning, faxing, organizing).
• Oversee meal preparation in the morning.
• Cleaning tasks; including preparing a room for new admissions.
• Transportation for people served.
• Provide group and individual services for clients.
• Teach clients independent living skills.
• Develop and maintain a cooperative working relationship with various teams.
• Provide the necessary financial management for the day-to-day operations of the program using established practices and procedures.
• Ensure compliance with training licensing regulations and company policies and procedures.
• Medication Administration and monitoring.
• Maintain clean and safe work environment; provide overnight duties from cleaning checklist.
• Adhere to the practice of maintaining a therapeutic environment including the prevention of crisis at the lowest level of escalation.
• Develop and participate in community and in-house recreational and leisure activities, as conducive to schedule.
• Complete all documentation as required to ensure quality services.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None

Minimum Knowledge and Skills Required for the Job

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or abilities required to perform the job.

Education and Experience:

• GED or High School Diploma with 2,000 supervised hours in the delivery of services to adults with serious mental illness.
• Bachelor's degree preferred in one of the behavioral sciences or related fields from an accredited college or university.

Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations:

• N/A.

Other Skills and Abilities:

• N/A.

Other Requirements:

• Travel as needed.

Physical Requirements:

• Medium Work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Sevita is a leading provider of home and community-based specialized health care. We believe that everyone deserves to live a full, more independent life. We provide people with quality services and individualized supports that lead to growth and independence, regardless of the physical, intellectual, or behavioral challenges they face. We've made this our mission for more than 50 years. And today, our 40,000 team members continue to innovate and enhance care for the 50,000 individuals we serve all over the U.S.

As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.