Dsp-R Part Time, 1St Shift Only Eow Kensington Ii - Firenze - Chesco Services

Descrizione

**Job Title:** Direct Care Staff

**Reports To:** House Manager

**Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Acquire and maintain certification in First Aid, CPR, and CPI (Non-Violent Crisis Intervention)
• Subject to annual TB test
• Valid Driver's license from state of residence and ability to operate motor vehicle for 15 passengers or less

**Job Summary:

• Provide direct care and training to consumers in community residence according to local, state, and federal guidelines
• Implements training goals and collects data
• Counsels consumers as necessary

**Physical Abilities Include:

• Climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting (patients with assistance), fingering, writing, reading, driving including nights, counting, working double shifts as necessary, running, and smell

**Job Duties:

• Maintains accountability for all consumers within the assigned setting, and demonstrates knowledge of consumers' actions during that time frame
• Ensures consumers' needs are met through the implementation of goals, behavior management, personal hygiene, oral hygiene, social adjustment, leisure, and special activities
• Ensures consumers' well-being and reports any inappropriate or maladaptive behaviors to residents as needed
• Implements unit-wide and individual behavior management plans consistently
• Performs all DSP paperwork, including daily logs, activity schedules, monthly inventory of consumers' belongings, daily documentation as needed, progress notes, baseline data, behavior reports, requisitions, and others as needed
• Maintains cleanliness in the unit through supervision of chores, house cleaning, cooking, and laundry as scheduled or needed
• Participates as a member of the interdisciplinary team and other consumer-related meetings as needed
• Provides information and assists with evaluation
• Administers medications to residents within CHESCO Services medication administration guidelines
• Make needed copies for direct care paperwork
• Attends in-service training and staff meetings as required
• Transports consumers as needed
• Conducts monthly fire drills on each shift; disaster drills as required
• Provides coverage to other shifts and community programs as needed
• Buys groceries and supplies weekly or as needed
• Clothing purchases (second shift; House Manager delegates)
• Prepares food and supply inventory
• Service Provision Log
• Prepares the chore list
• Filing