Community Living Support Professional - Water Street

Listening Ear Crisis Center; Belding (MI); On-site; USD 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Listening Ear Crisis Center is hiring Community Living Support Professionals in Belding, Michigan. The role involves providing essential daily support for mentally disabled adults, ensuring compliance with relevant laws and delivering compassionate care.

Qualifications include a high school diploma and a valid driver's license. Responsibilities encompass everything from meal preparation to managing consumer needs in their homes. Training is provided, with a focus on personal and professional growth.

Applicants should possess empathy, patience, and the ability to respond to emergencies effectively.

Qualifications

• Must have a valid driver's license and good driving record.
• Must have a high school diploma, GED, or equivalent.
• Ability to respond to emergency situations in a controlled manner.

Responsibilities

• Engage with consumers to implement activities in the Person Centered Plan.
• Perform meal preparation and consumer hygiene.
• Complete documentation relating to consumer services.

Skills

Knowledge of laws and regulations

Management of multiple tasks

Emergency response skills

Professionalism and empathy

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Position Summary

Community Living Support Professionals (also known as CLSPs or In-Home Help Workers) are responsible for the daily supervision and support in all daily living activities of consumers as identified in the consumer’s Person Centered Plan. These activities regularly include preparing meals, assisting with eating meals, personal care, bathing, dressing, restroom assistance, administering medications, transferring, and transporting to daily activities and medical appointments. All functions are performed with strict adherence to the applicable Michigan Health Code, MDHHS regulations, and contractual obligations between Listening Ear and community agencies or the State of Michigan.

Reporting and Supervision

CLSPs report to a Residential Manager.

Essential Job Functions

• Engage with consumers and designated staff to identify and implement activities required under the consumer’s Person Centered Plan.
• Perform all Person Centered Plan prescribed activities including, but not limited to, meal preparation, clean‑up, consumer hygiene, passing medications, consumer recreation activities, and transporting consumers to and from appointments in compliance with relevant laws, regulations, agreements, and Listening Ear standards.
• Accurate and timely completion and delivery of all necessary or required documentation relating to consumer services or home operations.
• Attend and successfully complete all mandatory training and skill development programs, including annual refresher trainings as required.
• Report punctually to work and remain with consumer until relieved from duty by another DSP or supervisor.

This is not an exhaustive list of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the job described. Other relevant duties, tasks, or requirements may be assigned to this job any time at the sole discretion of the employer.

Qualifications

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Must possess or acquire a working knowledge of laws, regulations, and methodologies relevant to working with varying degrees of mentally disabled adults including, but not limited to:
• Recipient Rights
• Agency Ethics and the Consumer Bill of Rights
• Person Centered Plans
• CPR
• First Aid
• Safety and fire prevention
• Nutrition
• Prevention of communicable diseases
• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
• Ability to respond to emergency situations in a controlled manner
• Work with professionalism, including empathy, patience, and cultural sensitivity
• Must possess and maintain a valid driver’s license and good driving record

Education and Experience

• Required: High School Diploma, GED, or be functionally equivalent in reading and writing in English, and basic math. Must be at least 18 years of age at the time employment begins.
• Preferred: Prior experience in a caregiving capacity with a licensed care facility. Post‑secondary certification from an accredited Community College or other relevant training program.

Physical and Other Requirements

• Over an 8‑hour period: Prolonged standing, regular or intermittent lifting and reaching above shoulders, pulling and pushing, bending at waist, twisting torso, kneeling, walking.
• Ability to lift, carry, and place up to 50$.

All conditional job offers for CLSP candidates will require a physical examination by an occupational health clinic, which includes a lifting component and TB test, as well as required criminal background checks.

Schedule, Travel Expectations, Working Conditions

• Because CLSPs perform their work in a consumer’s home, driving will occur daily.
• CLSPs will work relatively consistent schedules, though schedule hours and assignments may fluctuate from time to time based on consumer needs.