Direct Support Professional Non-Driving - CQ - Sat-Sun Job Arverne New York USA,Healthcare

Position: Direct Support Professional Non-Driving - 100CQ - Sat-Sun 8AM-4PM
Location: Arverne

Direct Support Professional Non-Driving - 100CQ - Sat-Sun 8AM-4PM

Adult Crisis Residence (OMH) - Arverne, NY 11692

Overview

Salary Range $19.46 - $19.46 Hourly Education Level High School

Job Description

Make an Impact.

At Well Life Network, every role plays a vital part in empowering people to live their best lives. As part of one of New York's largest nonprofit health and human services organizations, you'll join a team dedicated to compassion, inclusion, and excellence — helping individuals and families thrive every day.

Position Summary:

Provide all aspects of care to people served to enable them to become independent and productive. This position may have supervised / unsupervised contact and or conversational interaction with people served while working in the residences.

Essential Responsibilities:

Responsible for asserting in the planning, developing and implementation of goals and training to further develop skills of people served by including, but not limited to:

budgeting
grooming
nutritional planning
use of public transportation
use of community resources
shopping
housekeeping
physical health
adaptive behavior/independent living
nutrition
vocational development
social development

Monitor progress of people served. Tasks essential to this duty include, but are not limited to: seeing, hearing and observing, performing manual tasks, reading and writing (documentation), lifting, climbing and descending stairs, traveling, boarding and de-boarding agency vehicles and public transportation vehicles (i.e. bus, subway). Provide training in daily living skills and other areas.

Responsible to coordinate evacuation and ensure resident safety in actual emergencies (i.e. fire drills). Essential functions of this duty include the ability to climb and descend stairs and fire escapes and assist others to do the same. This may include both verbal and physical prompting.

Supervise and monitor persons served self-administration of medication.

Abilities required include: reading, writing, communication, observation for side effects, monitoring medical conditions such as: blood sugar levels.

Responsible for crisis intervention and incident reporting procedures.

Responsible for monitoring and recording progress on case notes, collateral notes, progress notes and house log.

Meet routinely with persons served and management team to review goal progress.

Assist in planning and follow through on or escort the people served to evening and weekend recreational activities. Participating in moderate physical activities as part of recreation program.

Monitor and assist planning of daily activities and events.

Attend all scheduled staff meetings, mandatory in-service training sessions, quarterlies, and annual meetings within residence and external entities. In order to attend staff meetings and trainings, staff must be available to participate in these programs at various sites and at varying times. Staff must be able to transport self to trainings. Staff must have the ability to complete the following training courses and perform the techniques taught in each are a required function of the position:
Medication Supervision Training, CPR and First Aid, Cultural Competency, Mandated Reporting, Corporate Compliance.

Communicate relevant information to other staff and supervisor(s), verbally and in writing, i.e.; daily communication log, incident reports, medication incidents.

Act as a role model for persons served.

Maintain records and confidentiality of such records.

Assist/supervise lunch preparation and clean up chores.

Prepare lunches and participate in family style dining with person served

Assist individuals in clothing care (laundry, ironing,).

Participate actively as a member of inter-disciplinary program planning team.

Must be able…