Direct Support Professional II

Description

Location

Schedule

40 hours FT, 4 weekdays + 1 day on the weekend

Essential Job Functions with a disability to perform the essential duties unless this causes undue hardship to the agency.)

DSP provide observations, evaluations, and reports to other team members to ensure and/or record an individual’s progress toward treatment/habilitation goals. In accordance with habilitative plans, they guide and teach individuals to develop skills required for a more independent lifestyle. Incumbents may take a lead role in one or more of the following duties within a work site. Duties may be performed in several or all of the following areas:

Personal Care

• Teaches and reinforces accepted infection control and personal grooming techniques; assists in bathing, dental care, hair and nail care, personal hygiene, toileting, incontinence care, menstrual care, and grooming routines as necessary.
• Teaches and assists individuals in dressing, clothing selection, storage, laundering and repair of clothing and accessories; helps them to shop for clothing.
• Teaches and assists in proper use and care of shavers and razors, eyeglasses, hearing aids, prostheses as prescribed by appropriate medical practitioner.
• Administers and teaches individuals first aid treatments; administers cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques and performs other health-related techniques as required.
• Takes, records, reports temperatures, blood pressures, pulse rate, weight, and other significant symptoms/health-related occurrences; aids developmentally disabled individuals in understanding, recording, and reporting such factors.
• Maintains confidentiality of information.
• Reports unusual incidents and physical or behavioral symptoms promptly and accurately to the supervisor.
• Applies valid and accepted limits for inappropriate behavior and helps control and restrain individuals with challenging behaviors in their care.
• Administers prescribed medications and treatments; teaches, observes, reports problems and progress in self-administration of medications programs; assists individuals in achieving more independence in administration of medications; teaches use of skin care lotions, topical ointments, eye and ear drops and assists in their use as needed.
• Accompanies individuals to medical, dental, and other health-related appointments; delivers prescriptions to pharmacy, takes medication to home site and logs same; and instructs and observes individuals in use of those substances.
• Assists individuals in eating who cannot feed themselves independently.
• Teaches individuals to eat in a family-style setting; models and teaches mealtime socialization skills.
• Teaches and assists individuals to plan, shop, store, prepare and serve meals using currently accepted nutritional standards; and to clean kitchen and dining areas, and dispose of leftover food safely.

Maintaining the Environment

• Performs/teaches developmentally disabled individuals routine housekeeping duties such as dusting, washing floors and walls, cleaning bathrooms, and vacuuming rugs.
• Assists developmentally disabled individuals in bed making.
• Follows safety procedures in living unit by mopping up spills, reporting unsafe conditions, teaches and reinforces fire safety procedures. Checks to see that fire exits are clear, night-lights and exit signs on, windows locked, etc.
• Stores supplies and assures that storage areas are kept in a neat and orderly condition.
• Responsible for storage and replacement of linens.
• May assist in various household inventories.
• Performs/teaches minor and routine maintenance tasks such as changing light bulbs, fuses, replacement of faucet washers; and obtains repair services for appliances.
• Performs/teaches routine removal of trash, cleaning of trash containers, ashtrays, etc.
• Teaches/performs outdoor maintenance tasks and repairs of residence, yard, garden, walks; reports need for or obtains repair services for automobiles, vans, mowers, etc.
• Checks fire equipment and reports any malfunction.
• Conducts fire drills following the fire evacuation plan.

Individual Development, Personal Interests

• Teaches and reinforces use of a variety communication skills.
• Guides individuals through motor…