What are the responsibilities and job description for the Developmentally Disabled Direct Care Aide position at Westview Cottages?
Purpose of Your Job Position
The primary purpose of your job position is to provide training and guidance to the resident by assisting in the resident’s life skills to include personal care, daily living, vocation, and community integration.
Job Functions
Every effort has been made to identify the essential functions of this position. However, it in no way states or implies that these are the only duties you will be required to perform. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or is an essential function of the position.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
General Functions
• Responsible for providing support to residents of an ICF/IID home.
• Responsible for implementing active treatment programing that occurs in the home, monitor and document on programming, to ensure continuous and consistent training occurs both formal through programming and incidental learning through life experience for residents of the home.
• Actively be a part of the support care team in development, and implementation of treatment for the resident.
• Read and follow the residents Individual Habilitation Plan and Behavior Intervention Plan.
• Implement the steps of the active treatment Program, and document the treatment in the Residents Goal book.
• Implement behavior intervention programs as written in each resident’s plan.
• Train and model for resident’s appropriate behavior intervention techniques.
Education
Must possess, as a minimum, a 10th grade education.
Experience
Must be a licensed Care Aide in accordance with laws of this state.
