Direct Care Specialist

Job Posting Title

Direct Care Specialist

805 DEPARTMENT OF REHABILITATION SERVICES

Note:

Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the posting end date above.

Full time

Regular

Monthly Salary Range:
Monthly Annual

Level I (Pay band

E) $2,411.936 $ 28,943.24

Level II (Pay Band

F) $2,968.13 $ 35,617.56

Basic Purpose

Positions in this job family are involved in providing direct care and supervision to clients with developmental or other disabilities. This includes basic health care and assistance with health care needs, assisting clients with life skills, including living, vocational, recreational, and educational skills, reviewing treatment plans for appropriateness, and supervising implementation of care and treatment plans. Other positions are assigned responsibilities involving paraprofessional guidance and instructional work in an institution, shelter, group home, or school.

Some positions may provide assistance to teachers in a classroom setting.

Typical Functions

• Performs routine duties in the care, custody, education, and treatment of developmentally disabled clients, youth or children residing in an institution, shelter, group home, or school.
• Responds to emergencies affecting individuals, including administering CPR and using approved intervention techniques.
• Provides paraprofessional guidance and counseling to clients to help find solutions to their personal problems, including problems of separation and adjustment to group living, and to develop personal values and goals; directs their daily activities, maintains order, and provides support.
• Serves on a treatment team to review resident’s progress, treatment, and educational plans; reports on activities, programs, and attendance
• Provides active treatment programming to clients in life skills; controls movement of residents to and from living quarters for activities and off-campus appointments.
• Ensures cleanliness of facilities through inspections, reports and adherence to safety standards.
• Lifts individuals to and from wheelchairs, floor mats, baths or beds; may perform nonprofessional nursing aide duties; serves as a certified medication aide.
• Supervises residents to and from facility for activities and off-campus appointments, in instructional settings, and during non-instructional activities such as recess, meal periods, assemblies, etc.
• Assists teaching staff in classroom with instruction and activities for individuals or for groups as assigned.
• Performs various clerical duties as needed, types and makes copies, orders supplies, etc.; sorts and files records; assists with maintenance of records and reports of attendance, activities and grades; maintains and operates audiovisual equipment.

Level Descriptor

Level I - This is the basic level of this job family where employees are responsible for performing routine entry level work in a training status to build their skills in providing resident supervision and direct care and in managing, observing, and recording behavior of clients/residents. In this role, they will attend orientation and training to learn policy, practices, and procedures, provide assistance in basic self care and socialization, and use approved intervention techniques, observation, recording and reporting of appropriate information to facilitate this process.

Some positions may provide assistance to teachers in a classroom setting.

Level II - This is the career level of the job family where employees are assigned duties and responsibilities at the full-performance level and perform a wide range of tasks involving direct care, treatment, and supervision of residents/clients. This includes implementing group and individual treatment plans and developing constructive relationships with residents/clients, coworkers, and other treatment team members, participation in interdisciplinary team evaluation, and completion of written documentation on client progress and activities.

Some positions may provide assistance to teachers in a classroom setting, including responsibility for students…