Support Professional

Mission Statement: To empower people and enhance lives.REPORTS TO: Day Services CoordinatorLead Support ProfessionalWORKS AS A TEAM MEMBER WITH: Executive DirectorDirector of Quality EnhancementProgram Development SpecialistProgram CoordinatorsSupport ProfessionalsNursing StaffFamily/Guardian/Advocates/FriendsHOURS: Flexible 40 hours per week.PHYSICAL ACTIVITY REQUIRED: Employees must be able to lift, carry, push and pull up to 50 pounds as part of routine job duties, as well as assisting people served in behavioral/safety situations and in medical emergencies.RESPONSIBILITIES:Will provide support to people served at Dakota Milestones to achieve their personal outcomes as a result of ongoing development, coordination, and implementation of the Outcome Support Plan. This process includes but is not limited to:Advocacy: supporting self-advocacy, assisting people to live self-directed lives, while fostering a partnership with the people supported, other professionals, and the community.Respect: supporting and recognizing each person’s values and uniqueness, while assisting them to understand the values and uniqueness of others. Promoting personal rights and responsibilities. Understanding and enforcing the confidentiality and privacy of the people supported.Documentation: record the person’s preferences, dreams, and desires while providing them with education, experience, and exposure; indicate progress towards or barriers to reaching personal goals.Self Determination: assist people to direct the course of their own lives. Provide the person served with the support and the information necessary to build self-esteem and assertiveness, and to make decisions.Communication: effectively communicate relevant information in a timely manner, comply with all reporting procedures according to agency policies, knowledge of the person and their communication skills in order to gather personal outcome information and the ability and willingness to communicate effectively with all agency team members.Will be assigned to and serve as an active member of specific teams in order to:Assist the person to develop an outcome plan that reflects their dreams, hopes, and desires.Implement outcome plans, which include teaching activities of daily living skills, providing options for a variety of community activities, supporting person as needed.Conduct both formal and informal assessment practices in order to respond to the dreams and desires of the person served. Conduct personal outcome interviews to discover how the person served defines each outcome.Be aware of Dakota Milestones’ documentation requirements and manage these requirements efficiently.Provide positive behavior support techniques specific to the needs of each person. Knowing the person well enough to conduct a functional analysis of behaviors. Actively teach the person a replacement behavior.Identify potential rights restrictions and develop a pro-active attainable restoration plan. Know how the person defines which rights are most important to them.Teach people to recognize and report all forms of abuse, neglect, or exploitation. All team members will recognize and report any suspected incidents of abuse, neglect, and exploitation.Assist people with the administration of their medication. Educate people about their medications: why they are taken, what the medication is, times to be taken, the doctor who prescribed it, etc.Will be familiar and comply with all health and safety regulations as they pertain to assigned work area in order to:Teach the people served to anticipate, recognize, and take care of safety issues to the best of their ability. Teach skills, which will allow the person to maintain healthy living and safety at, work, home, and in the community ie. Pedestrian safety, personal care, sexuality, self-administration of medications and side effects, physical conditions, etc. Assist the team to identify potential risks at work and living environment and develop a plan, which will ensure the person’s safety.Will participate in Dakota Milestones’ staff meetings and trainings in order to:Continually improves services provided to the people served.Continually increase basic/technical knowledge, skills, and abilities relating to providing services to people with disabilities.Increase team building and communication skills with all agency staff. Discuss and share information related to assisting people to achieve outcomes and assist in developing as agency plan to respond to the needs and desires of the people served.Be familiar with and comply with all ARSD rules and specific staff training needs.Become a leader in providing quality service and striving to facilitate problem solving and negotiation.We learn about personal outcomes only when we talk to the people served and learn what is important to them. As a result, other duties may be assigned on the premise that staff at Dakota Milestones are working for the people served.I have read the job description, and I can perform all of the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodations.EDUCATION: Minimum Requirements. High School Diploma or General Equivalency Diploma (GED).PHYSICAL ACTIVITY REQUIRED: Employees must be able to engage in physical activity, heavy lifting, stooping, pushing/pulling items, as well as assisting people served in behavioral/safety situations and in medical emergencies. #J-18808-Ljbffr