One on One Residential Care Professional

One On One Full-Time Residential Care Professional

GIL "Grounded In Love" Foundation Inc. is a private nonprofit organization celebrating 35 years of compassionate care and services for community residents with Intellectual Disabilities, Developmental Disabilities, and Autism in Connecticut.

Full-Time

Schedule:

• Sun- 2pm-10pm
• Mon- 2pm-10pm
• Tues- 2pm-10pm
• Wed- 2pm-10pm
• Thurs- OFF
• Fri- OFF
• Sat- OFF
• * Overtime available weekly to pick up open shifts

What a Residential Care Professional will be doing:

• Provides direct care to those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
• Performs personal care tasks, including assistance with basic personal hygiene and grooming, feeding, and ambulation, medical monitoring, and health care related tasks.
• Fosters positive relationships between caretakers and individuals served.
• Ensures client safety and maintaining a safe environment.
• Reminds and assists clients with self-administration of medications (with proper training).
• Encourages self-help activities.
• Reports changes in client's condition or family situation to administrators and supervisors.
• Documents services provided.
• Performs home management functions such as light housekeeping, laundry, bed making, and cleaning.
• Plans meals, shopping for groceries, preparing and serving food/meals, feeding and clean-up.
• Accompanies clients to scheduled appointments and transports clients or running errands for clients.
• Assists with toileting, including bedpans, urinals, and commode chairs as necessary.
• Participating in monthly staff meetings and contributing to a successful team process.
• Paying close attention to detail and being comfortable working with a computer, which is necessary to support our clientele's needs (training is provided).
• Providing for the safeguard & protection of individual's personal property, rights, and privacy.
• Performing various assignments and demands of a physical nature, which may include the lifting and transferring of heavy weight – at times in excess of 100 pounds, with, or without the use of adaptive or mechanical equipment, or staff assistance.
• Other duties as assigned.

The following certifications will need to be obtained and approved within company policy guidelines :

• State Medication Administration Certification (Group Home Workers Only)
• First Aid for Accidents
• CPR – Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation
• PMT – Physical Management Techniques (Group Home Workers Only)

Part Time Positions Available : (typically 12-hours to 24-hours over 7-days per week) includes weekday (early hours), weekend, and evening hours in a residential based home for Adults with Disabilities. Overtime is available.

Location Available:

Cheshire, CT 06410