Group Home Supported Community Living Specialist

Supported Community Living Specialist

This is a full time position in Red Oak, IA. The hours are Monday-Friday 7am-3pm.

The Supported Community Living Specialist (SCLS) is directly responsible to the Team Leader to which they are assigned and the Director of Residential Services.

This is a part-time/full-time, Para-professional level position. Specific duties and responsibilities include:

• Teaching, training, and assisting individuals in developing the skills necessary to be as independent as possible when performing activities of daily living.
• Coordinating health and medical needs.
• Training individuals to take care of their own health and medical needs.
• Developing or maintaining skills allowing for better participation in the community.
• Assisting individuals served in becoming independent in accessing community services.
• Assisting the individuals with participation in at least one community activity each week if shift is during day/evening/weekend hours.
• Assisting individuals in advocacy procedures to ensure his/her rights and to meet his/her needs, interests, and choices.
• Assisting in preparing an individualized diet plan to meet nutritional needs as needed.
• Writing individualized intervention plans for each individual served.
• Providing emergency/safety skills training.
• Providing training in skills necessary to manage their personal business and property.
• Providing training in budgeting.
• Providing transportation (doctor's appointments, church, etc.)
• Providing training in daily living skills.
• Orienting new individuals in their home, assessing their skills, and providing appropriate input to the individual's subsequent progress reports and Person-Centered Plan (PCP).
• Supervising the individual's goals and completing data collection related to running those goals.
• Supervising, as necessary, the individual's finances to give guidance in budgeting for personal needs and desires.
• Providing a supportive and therapeutic atmosphere.
• Supervising the individual's care and use of personal property and assisting with purchases, as necessary.
• Training new staff relative to duties, work schedules, agency policies, and state and/or federal regulatory policies and procedures in coordination with the Team Leader and Director of Residential Services.
• Following the assigned work schedule.
• Never leaving individuals receiving twenty-four-hour care unsupervised.
• Completing all records and documentation using the proper forms as they relate to established procedures.
• Attending staff meetings and scheduled in-service training sessions.
• Ensuring that the individual's residence meets cleanliness, safety, and health standards.
• Keeping informed of all programming and administrative information, changes, and additions by checking email each shift worked the daily logbook or other messages.
• Keeping all written and verbal information on each individual strictly confidential.
• Completing documentation of behaviors or providing information for writing staff intervention plans.
• Handling any other duties as assigned by the Team Leader, Lead Staff, and Director of Residential Services.
• Monitoring and documenting an individual's physician ordered diet as needed.
• Assisting individuals receiving services with their activities of daily living, such as, but not limited to, meal preparation, laundry, housekeeping, toileting, and bathing.
• Ensuring the clients are safe from all environmental hazards.

Essential functions include:

• Providing quality care.
• Transporting individuals.
• Providing training in daily living skills, (i.e. meal preparation, laundry, cleaning, and personal hygiene.)
• Ensuring that housekeeping standards are maintained.
• Employees must be willing to work with individuals who have behavioral problems. Behavioral problems may include both verbal and physical aggression.
• Providing a supportive and therapeutic atmosphere.
• Administering medication and maintaining accurate medication documentation, as needed, after being trained.
• Exercising sound judgment when the situation requires immediate decision-making.
• Working according to assigned work schedule. Duties may vary according to schedule, for instance some overnight shifts staff are expected to remain awake, and…