Job Description
DSP-R Part time, 2nd shift every other weekend Ross Road CTH II role at CHESCO SERVICES
Responsibilities
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.
* 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 for reporting and inappropriate or maladaptive behaviors to residents as needed. Implement unit wide and individual behavior management plans consistently.
* Performs all DSP paperwork, i.e: daily log, activity schedules, the 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 the 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.
* Attends in-service training and staff meetings as required
* Transport consumers as needed.
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.
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, work double shifts as necessary, running, and smell.
Physical Requirements Include
Very heavy lifting with assistance visual acuity must be accurate to write and read small print and record data. A worker is subject to both indoor and outdoor environments and maybe subject to temperature extremes of heat and cold for short time periods. The worker is subject to noise and hazards including the possibility of physical assault, property destruction, and infections.
Equal Employment Opportunity
We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from diverse candidates.
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