Community Disability Support Specialist

Edenbridge Family Services Inc; Lethbridge; On-site; CAD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Edenbridge Family Services Inc in Alberta is seeking a dedicated Residential Support Worker to assist individuals with developmental disabilities to live as independently as possible in the community. You will help with daily living tasks, health and personal care, transport to appointments, and community participation.

The role emphasizes safety, dignity, and respectful support, including homemaking, meal preparation, laundry, personal hygiene, and monitoring wellbeing.

Qualifications

• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the needs of the individuals.
• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision.
• Demonstrate an interest in and the ability for assisting individuals to maintain their independence in the community.
• Police Security Check
• CPI certification (Crisis Prevention Intervention)
• Participate in mandatory in-service training as indicated by the Executive Director.

Responsibilities

• Perform regular housekeeping chores.
• Assist in physical therapy of individuals.
• Perform other related duties as required by Edenbridge Family Services Inc.
• Cooking nutritious meals in adequate quantities to meet individuals needs.
• Washing dishes, pots, pans, and utensils after every meal.
• Cleaning the kitchen daily or as required.
• Ensuring that individual’s bedding is clean and changed as required.
• Assisting with or doing individuals laundry.
• Ironing and mending individual’s clothes as required.
• Dusting, vacuuming, sweeping, washing, and polishing as required to ensure cleanliness of the house.
• Assisting with bathing, or showering daily or as required.
• Aiding individuals in personal hygiene, such as regular washing and trimming of hair, brushing of teeth etc.
• Aiding in individual’s toilet needs, including all aspects required to ensure individual’s health.
• Assisting with feminine hygiene as required.
• Assisting individual to dress/undress themselves.
• Aiding individuals to eat as required.
• Ensuring that prescribed medication is taken.
• Taking individual to medical professionals as required.
• Doing only those things for the individual that he/she cannot do for him/herself
• Avoiding the use of any restrictive procedures except as directed
• Assist/teach individual to look after himself/herself, being aware of the individuals’ capabilities
• Ensure community access/participation by assisting/taking individual on trips into the community for shopping, exercise, and entertainment
• Assist/teach individual about personal hygiene
• Assist/teach individual with proper care of personal clothing and possessions
• Assist individual to communicate on the phone or by mail
• Encouraging interaction between the individual and his/her family.
• Assist individual with money management.
• Supervises individuals by: Working actively with individual during assigned hours of work
• Ensuring individual is not in danger from the environment, other people, or themselves
• Keeping alert at all times
• Attending staff meetings as required
• Attending appropriate in-service training as provided
• Reading and following through on all memos
• Being familiar with and following through with the Mission Statement, Philosophy, and Objectives of Edenbridge Family Services Inc.
• Adapt to changing assignments as required
• Realize that this position description outlines only the basic guidelines for the position, and go beyond the basic requirements as required
• Remember the dignity of the individual for whom he/she is responsible
• Respecting the confidentiality of individuals, and co-workers, and agency.
• Reporting any concerns to the Edenbridge Supervisor
• Performing any related job duty in addition to these mentioned as assigned by Edenbridge Family Services Inc.

Skills

Communication

Empathy/Understanding needs

Independence work

Community independence

Education

Training school/college preferred

Job description

Edenbridge Family Services Inc in Alberta is seeking a dedicated Residential Support Worker to assist individuals with developmental disabilities to live as independently as possible in the community. You will help with daily living tasks, health and personal care, transport to appointments, and community participation.

The role emphasizes safety, dignity, and respectful support, including homemaking, meal preparation, laundry, personal hygiene, and monitoring wellbeing.