Direct Support Professional

Direct Support Professional

23 Oct 2024
California, San francisco bay area 00000 San francisco bay area USA

Direct Support Professional

● Provide constant supervision, care, training, and support of adults with disabilities.

● Implements behavioral modification techniques with support of Behavior Specialist.

● Charts client progress.

● Maintains accurate and consistent daily and monthly recordkeeping

● Operates passenger vehicles and transports clients.

● Plans program details to meet needs and interests of individual clients.

● Assists clients with special needs in the use of adaptive equipment and personal hygiene needs.

● Develops training objectives and intervention strategies for clients.

● Receives instructions from the Program Director.

This job has no supervisory responsibilities, but has training responsibilities for new hires and existing employees and has responsibility for the management, behavior, and reporting requirements.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:

One year of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Complete knowledge and ability to implement all company policies and procedures.

Language Skills:

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating/maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write correspondence. Ability to communicate effectively with clients, home staff, and agency employees. Ability to professionally articulate thoughts during meetings.

Licenses and/or Certificates:

Current California driver's license. Must be twenty-one (21) years old to meet minimum driving requirements with a clean DMV.

Mathematical Skills:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers and decimals.

Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form. Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This is a job that requires a high degree of activity, for example an employee may be required to run after a client in urgent situations. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, get in and out of company vehicles, communicate, and be alert. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, or crouch. The

employee must be able to regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include:

Close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception. The employee is required to drive.

The employee in this position may also be required to intervene in physically demanding behavioral interventions with physically aggressive clients.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to a variety of work environments, including outside weather conditions, driving of motor vehicles, and exposure to machinery and equipment with moving parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

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We offer 401(k) employer match, PTO, sick days, sign on bonus, medical, employee incentives.

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