Floater, Healthcare

Essential Functions:

Support the individual by supporting a comfortable home environment. Examples include but are not limited to:

• Provide safe and clean environment for the individual based on skill level and risks and support the safety of all individuals in everyday situations.
• Use verbal and physical means to create a positive environment that will encourage and enable individual growth.
• Using a holistic approach, participate in the individual’s life planning activities and assist in their implementation.
• Assist the individual in the development of social skills that will help the individual become integrated/included in his or her community.
• Perform protective oversight while engaging in community activities.
• Monitor each individual’s personal health on a continuous basis (during situations of high activity, while bathing/showering/swimming, in the morning and the evening, at meals, while in the community, at all times).
• Assist individuals in learning and practicing skills necessary for home living (indoor household chores such as, but not limited to, cooking, sweeping, dusting, bed-making, vacuuming, and dish-washing, laundry, folding and storing clothes, etc.).
• Provide opportunities for the individual to be self-advocate.
• Perform advocate responsibilities, while demonstrating respect for the processes and people involved.
• Responsible for all documentation related to the essential function and services for the individual.
• Adhere to the procedures for mandated reporting and responding.
• Adhere to the NADSP code of ethics.
• Work towards the satisfactory completion of each of the core competency goals according to the OPWDD timeline requirements.

Entry level

Full-time

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