Direct Support Professional

For nearly 150 years, The Jewish Board has been delivering innovative, best-in-class mental and behavioral health services. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families, to children, teens, and adults. That adds up to countless opportunities to use your skills, training, and compassion to make a difference in the lives of over 45,000 New Yorkers each year.

Make a bigger difference

The Jewish Board’s Community Behavioral Health treatment programs provide compassionate, high quality, evidence-based services to individuals and families in the communities we serve. Our staff uses a culturally competent, person centered approach to help individuals and their families develop skills and resources to improve overall functioning, to instill hope, and to strengthen resiliency. Our programs work closely with community partners to address health disparities in our neighborhoods while also celebrating the strengths and resilience of our communities.

Our children’s community residences are single site residences that provide group living for eight children and/or adolescents. The program provides a supervised, trauma informed therapeutic environment which seeks to develop the resident's skills and capacity to live in the community and attend school/work as appropriate.

The Direct Support Professional works with children and adolescents in a residential treatment setting and is responsible for ensuring that those portions of the treatment plan which deal with day to day and independent living skills are implemented. Acting as a positive role model and providing therapeutic support, the Direct Support Professional is charged with the fundamental responsibility of the client's health and safety.

• Responsible for day-to-day care of the client in the program including helping consumers to maintain their personal hygiene, social guidance, use of leisure time, and food planning and preparation.
• Develop, supervise and run activity sessions.
• Accompany clients on trips and outings and supervise activities.
• May be called upon to work one on one with a client who is displaying significant stress or assist with management issues as they relate to clients.
• Drive the clients to medical, social or other necessary appointments.
• Shares their experience and observation of the clients under care with the treatment team and immediately brings to the attention of the supervisor any unusual issues.
• Will be required to cook/prepare meals for residents within the program.
• Participates in weekly team meetings (Virtually/ in-person).
• Participates in regular staff meetings and trainings. May be asked to travel to offsite meetings and trainings.
• Completes regular and timely documentation of all resident interactions, including progress and informational notes in the respective electronic records.
• Coordinate and collaborate with the multidisciplinary team.
• Complete incident reports as appropriate following an incident.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Willingness to work with children/adolescents living with the impact of trauma and experience mental health challenges.
• Compassion and respect for vulnerable individuals.
• Patience and understanding for the sometimes slow process of stabilization and recovery.
• Excellent youth engagement skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Attention to detail.

• High School diploma is required.
• A Driver’s License is required to meet all insurance requirements.

• Some work experience with a similar population in a residential setting.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office.
• Aptitude for learning new systems and application software.

• Must have the ability to read and write.

• Travel in the community with residents utilizing agency vehicle.
• Engage in physical activities with the residence.

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