One on One Residential Care Professional

Overview

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.

• Provides direct care to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
• Performs personal care tasks, including assistance with basic personal hygiene and grooming, feeding, ambulation, medical monitoring, and health care related tasks.
• Fosters positive relationships between caretakers and individuals served.
• Ensures client safety and maintains 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, shops for groceries, prepares and serves food, feeds and cleans up after meals.
• Accompanies clients to scheduled appointments and transports clients or runs errands for clients.
• Assists with toileting, including bedpans, urinals, and commode chairs as necessary.
• Participates in monthly staff meetings and contributes to a successful team process.
• Pays close attention to detail and is comfortable working with a computer (training provided) to support our clientele’s needs.
• Provides for the safeguarding and protection of each individual’s personal property, rights, and privacy.
• Performs physically demanding tasks, including lifting and transferring heavy weights (up to 100 pounds) with or without adaptive or mechanical equipment or staff assistance.
• Other duties as assigned.

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

Full-Time

Schedule:

Sun 2pm-10pm;
Mon 2pm-10pm;
Tue 2pm-10pm;
Wed 2pm-10pm;
Thurs OFF;
Fri OFF;
Sat OFF. Overtime available weekly to pick up open shifts.

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

Cheshire, CT 06410