DSP-R Part time, 1st shift weekend Camden CRCF

Reports To

House Manager

• 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.

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.

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.

Very heavy lifting with assistance; visual acuity must be accurate to read and write small print and record data. A worker is subject to both indoor and outdoor environments and may be 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.

The worker is subject to wear protective clothing to prevent exposure to infection.

• 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 inappropriate or maladaptive behaviors to residents as needed. Implements unit-wide and individual behavior management plans consistently.
• Performs all Direct Support Professional (DSP) paperwork, including daily log, activity schedules, monthly inventory of consumers' belongings, daily documentation as needed, progress notes, baseline data, behavior reports, requisitions, and others as needed. Create new sheets for the month (e.g., body check sheets, daily progress notes, recreational assessment, by consumer assignment, recreational calendar and activity inventory).
• 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 attends 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. (Third Shift)
• Attends in-service training and staff meetings as required.
• Transports consumers as needed.
• Conducts monthly fire drills on each shift; participates in disaster drills as required.
• Provides coverage to other shifts and community programs as needed.
• Buys groceries and supplies weekly or as needed. (On Schedule)
• Clothing purchases (second shift; House Manager delegated).
• Prepare food and supply inventory. (Third Shift)
• Service Provision Log. (Third Shift)
• Prepare the chore list. (Third Shift)
• Filing.
• Performs other duties as identified or assigned.

Essential job duties correspond to the duties listed above and are subject to change based on program needs.

Other duties as assigned or identified.