Direct Support Professional (DSP) - Evenings

The Direct Support Professional I partners with a team of skilled professionals and families to provide services that are family-driven, youth-guided, trauma-informed, and culturally competent to help youth reach their full potential. This role creates a safe, nurturing, and peaceful environment that provides opportunities for the successful development of life skills and social skills for youth and families receiving services.

Provide supervision and care to the individuals they serve, assisting with their daily living skills according to established program standards and follow all applicable safety and mandated reporting protocols.

Develop, implement, monitor, and report on treatment objectives and modalities that are utilized to support the individuals' goals. Assess the effectiveness of individual care plans (e.g., behavior, safety, treatment, and routine support plan).

Build professional relationships with peers that support individual development and success.

Provide purposeful activities, based on the individual’s current developmental level that foster skill development to help them prepare for transitions and interactions in the community.

Monitor participating individual’s emotional and behavior status and document accordingly.

Partner with the family-driven treatment team to ensure all decisions are made in the best interest of the youth.

Complete all required documentation according to established policies and regulations.

Maintain daily communication with appropriate staff to ensure relevant behaviors and/or concerns are shared in order to support client needs. Recognize escalated youth behavior and effectively apply the continuum of crisis prevention and intervention through verbal and non-verbal de-escalation skills to reduce risk, which may include the use of protective interventions and physical restraints.

Execute a wide variety of support tasks, including transporting for medical appointments, various housekeeping duties, administration of medication and managing petty cash.

Execute staff training initiatives.

Transport youth as required.

High School Diploma or GED required.

Successful completion of Approved Medication Administrative Personnel (AMAP) training within 1 year to meet the health needs of the individuals in care.

In addition to demonstrating the Hillside Professional Competencies of Communicates Effectively, Personal Excellence, Cultural Competence, Builds and Leverages Relationships and Optimizes Decision Making, the following occupational competencies must be demonstrated:

Demonstrate the emotional competence and good judgment required to build productive, engaged children, youth, staff and family relationships while implementing required rules, expectations and routines.

Ability to complete all required documentation in timely fashion according to established policies and regulations. Ability to recognize and address escalating and dysregulated youth behavior, and utilize training provided in behavior management and Strategies for Crisis Intervention and Prevention (SCIP), including the use of physical interventions (holds).

Must be able to work a variable scheduling including evenings and weekends.

community-based staff may be required to lift an empty wheelchair weighing up to 50 lbs.), Occasional exposure to change in temperature, dust, fumes, gases or chemicals is apparent.

Protective clothing or equipment as required: close toed shoes, protective shields, universal precaution PPE and gloves for toileting and food preparation.

and guide them safely to the floor using Strategies for Crisis Intervention and Prevention (SCIP) approved techniques.