Direct Support Professional
- Specialized training in direct care provision preferred.
- Must complete and obtain certification in OPWDD Approved Medication Administration Course (AMAP) during probationary period and maintain AMAP certification.
- Ability and willingness to be First Aid and CPR certified.
- Ability and willingness to obtain certification in SCIPR Competencies and advance to Promote
- Demonstrated competency in written, verbal and computational skills to document records in accordance with program standards.
- Regularly required to speak clearly and hear the spoken word well.
- Regularly required to utilize near vision ability to read data and documents, including spreadsheets and reports, in printed form and on computer screens.
- Regularly required to provide physical care for clients and individuals, which may include, but is not limited to bathing, feeding, changing clothes or diapers and pushing wheelchairs.
- Ability to physically restrain challenging behaviors that include aggression, self-injurious, and destructive behaviors.
- Ability to apply proper lifting techniques.
- Noise level is consistent with levels usually present in an office, education, group home, residential, rehabilitation, industrial, workshop or health related environment.
- Hazards present are consistent with those common to an office, education, rehabilitation, industrial, workshop or health related environment.
- Working with individuals whose age ranges from childhood to adulthood.
- Work towards the satisfactory completion of each of the core competency goals according to the OPWDD timeline requirements.
- Provide safe and clean environment for the individual based on skill level and risks and support the safety of all individuals in everyday situations.
- Use verbal and physical means to create a positive environment that will encourage and enable individual growth.
- Assist the individual in the development of social skills that will help the individual become integrated/ included in his or her community.
- Perform protective oversight while engaging in community activities.
- Monitor each individual’s personal health on a continuous basis (during situations of high activity, while bathing/showering/swimming, in the morning and the evening, at meals, while in the community, at all times).
- Assist individuals in learning and practicing skills necessary for home living (indoor household chores such as, but not limited to, cooking, sweeping, dusting, bed-making, vacuuming, and dish-washing, laundry, folding and storing clothes, etc.).
- Perform advocate responsibilities, while demonstrating respect for the processes and people involved.
- Responsible for all documentation related to the essential function and services for the individual.
- Minimum 1-year experience working with developmentally disabled population preferably in a residential, health or treatment related setting preferred.
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