Prn Direct Care Assistant

PRN Direct Care Assistant - Position Is As Needed

This position is responsible for the safety, training, and welfare of persons in a group home. This position protects the civil and legal rights of those persons.

Major duties include:

• Preparing snacks and meals for persons served; preparing balanced diet commensurate with menus; preparing and serving meals.
• Ordering, storing, and maintaining proper quantity of food used in meal preparation; storing leftover food for later consumption.
• Cleaning and directing others in cleaning equipment, kitchen and dining facilities, and the total home environment; ensuring compliance with health and sanitation standards in order to ensure acceptable inspection scores.
• Assisting in providing individual training in accordance with programming plans; monitoring progress through data collection and report formulation; conducting training in accordance with plans; maintaining security and confidentiality of person's records.
• Completing necessary documentation including daily log and activity records.
• Assisting in transporting persons.
• Providing and promoting recreational and leisure activities to persons served.
• Administering medication in accordance with policies and procedures.
• Maintaining certification in CPR, First Aid, Medication Assistance (MAC), and CPI.
• Assisting with daily living skills and training on personal goals for persons served in home setting.
• Performing other duties and responsibilities deemed necessary; not otherwise specified.

Knowledge required by the position includes:

• Agency policies and Alabama Department of Mental Health and Medicaid guidelines.
• The nature of intellectual and developmental disabilities.
• Food preparation and service principles.
• Provision of care to persons with intellectual disabilities.
• Problem solving.
• Prioritizing and planning.
• Interpersonal relations.
• Oral and written communication.

The Group Home Manager supervises and assigns work in terms of somewhat general instructions. The supervisor spot-checks completed work for compliance with instructions and established procedures, accuracy, and the nature and propriety of the final results.

Guidelines include agency policies, Alabama Department of Mental Health guidelines, and Medicaid guidelines. These guidelines are generally clear and specific but may require some interpretation in application.

The work consists of related direct care duties. The unique needs of individuals served contribute to the complexity of the position. The purpose of this position is to provide direct care services to persons in a group home. Successful performance contributes to the delivery of effective services to individuals.

Contacts are typically with co-workers, other agency personnel, persons served, parents/guardians/caregivers, and members of the general public. Contacts are typically to exchange information, motivate persons, resolve problems, and provide services.

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 an employee to perform essential job functions. The work is typically performed while intermittently sitting, standing, stooping, bending, crouching, or walking. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move over 25 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required for this job include close vision, distant vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The work is typically performed in group homes. Work may require the use of protective devices such as masks, goggles, gloves, etc.

This position supervises assigned persons in training.

Minimum qualifications include:

• Ability to read, write and perform mathematical calculations and a completion of high school diploma or a GED.
• Sufficient experience to understand the basic principles relevant to the major duties of the position, usually associated with the completion of an apprenticeship/internship or having had a similar position for one to two years.
• Possession of a valid driver's license, a good driving record. A commercial driver's license may be required.