Respite Worker; Roselle, NJ

Overview

Job Title:

Respite Worker

Reports To:

Staffing Coordinator

• Providing relief for parents of children with disabilities through providing support while the caregiver can leave and take care of other personal/household-related matters. As well as the below elements.
• Assisting the family with recreational and leisure-related activities, which may include an array of home and community involvement.

• Experience in working with children with disabilities. Provide supervision, boundary limitations, and maintain a safe and positive environment.

• Be able to engage the child and provide quality care in a friendly, patient, and compassionate manner.

• Be able to initiate and receive verbal communication between managers, clients, and parents regarding how to deliver service and resolve issues.

• Ideal applicants should have experience in working with children with disabilities, effective interpersonal skills, be able to maintain satisfactory working relationships with families and other professionals, and have time management skills.

High School Diploma; some college experience preferred; however, not mandatory.

Multiple Location in state of NJ, Preferably Morris, Essex, Union, Middlesex and Bergen Counties.