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Objective:
The Direct Support Professional (DSP) assists individuals with intellectual and/or physical disabilities (“participant”) to lead a self-directed life and contribute to the community; assists with activities of daily living as needed; and encourages attitudes and behaviors that enhance community inclusion.
Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities:
- Using a person-centered approach, provides personal care, support, and safety for participants
- Identifies the needs of participants, and utilizes formal and informal supports available to meet the needs of the participants
- When appropriate, provide input to individual program planning for assigned participants
- Interacts with participants to provide training in areas such as social interaction, leisure time activity, planning and decision making, money management, house cleaning
- Provides personal care tasks that include: assistance with basic personal hygiene, grooming, feeding, ambulation, medical monitoring, and healthcare-related tasks
- Responsible for assisting participants with home management tasks such as cleaning bath facilities, and kitchen facilities, changing soiled bedding, sweeping, mopping floors, shopping, and other related housekeeping tasks
- Responsible for assisting in meal preparation activities
- Supervises participants in recreational activities; implements activities according to calendar and scheduled events
- Provides transportation to participants as required
- Interacts with participants to model, encourage and reinforce appropriate behavior and gain participants’ assistance and involvement
- Utilizes crisis prevention, intervention, and resolution techniques, and matches such techniques to particular circumstances and participants according to the positive behavior support plan
- Assists participants to develop and maintain healthy social relationships
- Interacts with parents/guardians, case managers, and the public in a positive, supportive manner
- Promotes and practices teamwork through respectful, supportive interactions with other employees
- Identifies and reports changes in participants’ behavior and health both verbally and in legible writing
- Write reports of significant incidents occurring during the shift; complete all required documentation, forms, and logs as directed
- Supervise the use of any medications, maintain medications in a secure place, log their use, and follow established medication assistance protocol
Minimum Position Requirements:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Ability to pass a criminal background check through the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare
- Current Driver's License and Auto Insurance
- Reliable transportation to transport participants throughout the community (mileage reimbursed)
- Ability to obtain and maintain First Aid/CPR certification and an Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP) certification
- CNA certification (optional)
You receive an additional $1.00 per hour of your hourly rate for the following -
- You pick up a shift outside of your normal scheduled shift
- You work on a Saturday and/or Sunday
- You work in an Intense Home
