DSP, Community Living Services​/Residential​/Dedicated Services

Position: DSP, Community Living Services/Residential (Saturday/Sunday, 9:00am-3:00pm - Dedicated Services)
Do you enjoy helping others reach their full potential?
Do you enjoy having fun at work and doing recreational activities?
Are you motivated by personal enrichment?
Do you want to work for an amazing organization!

If you are interested in this unique opportunity and fulfilling career, then becoming a Direct Support Professional (DSP) is the perfect job for you!

The DSP, Community Living Services/Residential will be committed to supporting the organization's mission of ensuring quality support services are provided and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities are both respected and afforded opportunities to choose and participate in and access community events, activities, and resources.

Responsibilities We'll Help You Master

• Support individuals in achieving their personal goals and fulfilling their dreams by having a "person-centered" focus.
• Teach independent living and daily skills to the persons-served by identifying and meeting social, environmental, and health care needs such as daily grooming and personal care routines.
• Actively plans, coordinates, and participates with residents in social activities including frequent community outings.
• Instructs, supports and participates in performing household tasks with persons served such as cleaning, preparing meals, food shopping, etc.

Who You Will Be Supporting

In this role, you will have the amazing opportunity to support someone that:

• Is adventurous, sociable, friendly, kind and enjoy learning new things
• Is dependent on a wheelchair for mobility
• Likes going out to eat, to the park, and visiting DC and surrounding areas
• Loves being active, spending time with family especially holidays
• Enjoys listening to music, watching tv to include game shows, sports, soap operas, and other sitcom tv shows
• Loves Madea movies, going to the movies, parks, and basketball games
• Likes van rides in the community, ordering foods from restaurants and socializing with housemates
• Is verbal with a few words but good with interpretation of conversations
• Has a very sensitive personality and need people who naturally have a soft tone and uses gentleness
• Requires total assistance with feeding and ADLs
• Loves and prefers wearing slippers
• Tends to be cold natured preferring the warmth of indoors versus outdoor too much

Qualifications

• Earned High School Diploma or GED from an accredited educational institution.
• Valid Driver's License
• Able to communicate effectively with the individuals to whom services are provided
• Experience in a residential setting serving people with intellectual/developmental disabilities or with other types of special needs populations (rehabilitation settings, nursing homes, psychiatric hospitals, other behavioral health settings, etc.)

WHY YOU'LL LOVE ARDMORE

We offer an exceptional benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (Care First)
• 403B Retirement Plan Match - Mutual of America (Up to 6%)
• Group Life Insurance - Guardian (up to $50,000)
• Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
• Short-Term Disability Insurance (Guardian)
• Voluntary Long-Term Disability (Guardian)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Pet Insurance
• Legal Insurance
• Generous Vacation and Sick Leave (full-time and part-time eligibility)
• 10 Paid Holidays and 2 Floating Holidays
• Employee Discounts (Groupon, Six Flags, Touro University, Hertz car rentals, AMC Theaters Dell computers, etc.)
• Paid On-site Trainings!

We are ready for you to bring your:

• Energy and enthusiasm
• Passion for helping others to live fulfilling lives
• High level of commitment and initiative
• Advocacy and customer services skills, and
• Your positive "can do" attitude

Ardmore Enterprises is an equal opportunity employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, military service obligations or any other category protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

We are looking for great staff and it can be you! Apply today!

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