What are the responsibilities and job description for the Direct Support Staff position at Jewish Association for Community Living, Inc.?
Position Overview
The Life Skills instructor coaches, supports, and develops residents’ life skills in the home and community environments.
Open Positions:
- Sun 2p-10p, Mon, Tues, Fri 2p-8p Sat 10a-4p (32hrs)
- Mon, Tues, Thurs 3p11p Sat 4p-10p (30hrs)
- Tue/Wed 6:30a-2:30p, Sat 4p-8p (20hrs)
- Mon, Wed, Fri 1:30p-9:30p Tues/ Wed 2:30-9:30p (40hrs)
- Friday 2p-11p, Sun 3p-8p (14hrs)
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Creates and engages residents in a learning environment
- Develops, implements and reinforces household routines
- Instructs, supervises, and supports residence in home and community activities
- Provides and maintains a safe and healthy environment
- Assists with and monitors activities of daily living
- Develops residents interpersonal relationship skills
- Assists residents in implementing action plans
- Prepares documentation
- Ensures appropriate medical treatment for medical incidents, injuries, illness, or behavioral/psychiatric episodes
- Prepares or assists residents in meal planning, shopping and cooking
- Assists with residents financial transactions
- Provides residents with instruction in the use of community based services
- Assists residents in leisure activities in accordance with policies
- Maintains cleanliness of home and vehicle
- Obtain and/or maintain DDS Medication Administration Certification
- Schedules and attends residents medical appointments
- Monitors and reports changes in residents health
- Ensures residents health and safety
- Oversees, prepares and administers medications
- Provides safe transportation in JCL vehicles
- Participates in the interdisciplinary team process
- Attends staff meetings
- Perform any other department or agency-related duties or special projects as directed by supervisor
Qualifications
- High School diploma or equivalent
- Valid driver’s license and ability to maintain a liability free driving record
- Ability and willingness to achieve, attend, and maintain all DDS and JCL certifications and trainings including DDS Medication Administration Certification
- Experience working with people with developmental disabilities is preferred
- Good observation skills
- Demonstrates organizational skills
- Clear writing skills with good grammar
- Demonstrates ability to communicate effectively and respectfully with a wide variety of residents’, their family members, staff, and community members
- Ability and willingness to assist residents in all areas of personal hygiene in a dignified manner Ability and willingness to be friendly, respectful, patient, encouraging, optimistic, energetic and nurturing.
Physical Demands
- Ability to lift 35 pounds
- Ability to sit, stand, bend, walk, climb, stoop, push, pull, carry, reach, twist
- Ability to apply Psychological/physical Management Techniques (PMT)
