Support Professional

Mission Statement:
To empower people and enhance lives.

REPORTS TO:

Day Services Coordinator Lead Support ProfessionalWORKS AS A TEAM MEMBER WITH:
Executive Director Director of Quality Enhancement Program Development Specialist Program Coordinators Support Professionals Nursing Staff Family/Guardian/Advocates/Friends

HOURS:

Flexible 40 hours per week.

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

REQUIRED:

Employees must be able to lift, carry, push and pull up to 50 pounds as part of routine job duties, as well as assisting people served in behavioral/safety situations and in medical emergencies.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Will provide support to people served at Dakota Milestones to achieve their personal outcomes as a result of ongoing development, coordination, and implementation of the Outcome Support Plan. This process includes but is not limited to:

Advocacy: supporting self-advocacy, assisting people to live self-directed lives, while fostering a partnership with the people supported, other professionals, and the community.

Respect: supporting and recognizing each person’s values and uniqueness, while assisting them to understand the values and uniqueness of others. Promoting personal rights and responsibilities. Understanding and enforcing the confidentiality and privacy of the people supported.

Documentation: record the person’s preferences, dreams, and desires while providing them with education, experience, and exposure; indicate progress towards or barriers to reaching personal goals.

Self Determination: assist people to direct the course of their own lives. Provide the person served with the support and the information necessary to build self-esteem and assertiveness, and to make decisions.

Communication: effectively communicate relevant information in a timely manner, comply with all reporting procedures according to agency policies, knowledge of the person and their communication skills in order to gather personal outcome information and the ability and willingness to communicate effectively with all agency team members.

Will be assigned to and serve as an active member of specific teams in order to:

Assist the person to develop an outcome plan that reflects their dreams, hopes, and desires.

Implement outcome plans, which include teaching activities of daily living skills, providing options for a variety of community activities, supporting person as needed.

Conduct both formal and informal assessment practices in order to respond to the dreams and desires of the person served. Conduct personal outcome interviews to discover how the person served defines each  aware of Dakota Milestones’ documentation requirements and manage these requirements efficiently.

Provide positive behavior support techniques specific to the needs of each person. Knowing the person well enough to conduct a functional analysis of behaviors. Actively teach the person a replacement behavior.

Identify potential rights restrictions and develop a pro-active attainable restoration plan. Know how the person defines which rights are most important to them.

Teach people to recognize and report all forms of abuse, neglect, or exploitation. All team members will recognize and report any suspected incidents of abuse, neglect, and exploitation.

Assist people with the administration of their medication. Educate people about their medications: why they are taken, what the medication is, times to be taken, the doctor who prescribed it, etc.

Will be familiar and comply with all health and safety regulations as they pertain to assigned work area in order to:

Teach the people served to anticipate, recognize, and take care of safety issues to the best of their ability. Teach skills, which will allow the person to maintain healthy living and safety at, work, home, and in…